Atlanta Business Chronicle
By Laura Newpoff – Contributor
When Bob Stone was pursuing an industrial management degree at Georgia Tech in the early 1960s, he took a course that taught him about the computer programming language FORTRAN. Considered the world’s first high-level programming language, it originally was used as part of the IBM 704 data processing system designed for commercial applications. At the time, programmers were in high demand as computing technology became embraced by business, industry, science education and government. …While completing coursework for a Ph.D. at Georgia State University in 1969, Stone was hired as an assistant professor of management at West Georgia College in Carrollton. As more people in the community learned about computers, Stone became inundated with questions, even ones as simple as how to turn on these new machines. …Stone taught at West Georgia College — now the University of West Georgia — until 1977. Late last year, SMI and UWG announced a partnership to establish the Stone Center for Family Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation within UWG’s Richards College of Business. The center will serve as a hub for student programming, faculty engagement and community outreach, aimed at nurturing innovation and entrepreneurial activity in the west Georgia region.
SaportaReport
Grady, GSU receive $23.6 million to fight “critical nursing shortage”
Hannah E. Jones
Thanks to a $23.6 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Georgia State University (GSU) and Grady Hospital have established a partnership to strengthen the pipeline of education to employment for nursing students. Currently, GSU has a higher demand of applicants to the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions than the university can accommodate, while Grady — just down the street — is facing a critical shortage of nursing staff. This is a crucial partnership between two big-name Atlanta institutions, with GSU as the state’s largest university and Grady providing high-quality trauma and emergency care. This donation allocates $12 million to the university, with $11.6 million going to the hospital, funding a joint education program with clinical learning opportunities for students and a new simulation lab on each site.
The Moultrie Observer
MPD-mental health partners respond to 2-3 calls per day
By Kasmira Smith
A law enforcement-mental health collaboration that’s been in the works for well over a year hit the streets May 5. Julio Ginel, a Georgia Pines employee, joined Moultrie police Sgt. Justin Lindsay as co-responders to police calls that involve drugs or mental health issues. When the MPD is dispatched to a call where the officer determines there is no danger but there is an issue of either substance abuse or mental health, the co-responder will assess the individual and refer them to a mental health resource if possible, Ginel said in an interview on Friday. …Aided by The Archway Project, a local outreach of the University of Georgia, the MPD started conducting research and found a co-responder unit in Athens-Clarke County, Ga. The Athens unit was created in 2015 and now has seven co-responder teams that service and provide assistance to the community, according to Ladson.
AllOnGeorgia
GSU Students Expand Communication Disorder Awareness in Deaf Culture Renaissance
A group of students at Georgia Southern University is taking courses to grow the number of interpreters in their communities and their fields. GSU says that each student comes to class with their own motivations to learn American Sign Language (ASL).
The Herald Gazette
LC Schools, GSC partner on nursing pathway
By Walter Geiger
Gordon State College and Lamar County High School entered into an articulation agreement on May 2, 2022, in which eligible dual enrollment students may gain admission to the GSC Bachelor of Science in nursing degree program after certain requirements are met and completed. Up to five Lamar County High School dual enrollment students who are admitted to GSC will be aware of what core courses they must take, when they need to take these courses and what GPA they must maintain in order to assure admission into the GSC Department of Nursing degree program. Each of the five students will be given two curricula options and provided a detailed plan for completion of the core requirements.
Georgia Trend
Addressing the nursing shortage
Partnership creates accelerated nursing degree
by Mary Ann DeMuth
The University of North Georgia (UNG) and Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) have formed a partnership to add 280 nurses to the workforce over the next five years. These nurses are in addition to those the university already trains through its traditional programs. The partnership creates an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) track at UNG’s Gainesville campus for students who already have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in another field. Applications for the four-semester program are open through August 31 and the initial group of 40 will begin the ABSN program in January.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College defies national trend with Hispanic outreach
By Collin Elder Special to the Daily Post
In a time where Hispanic enrollment in some higher education institutions is trending downward or stagnating, Georgia Gwinnett College’s Hispanic student population continues to rise. GGC’s Nancy Ciudad-Simmons and her team are working to maintain that momentum. A senior student success advisor with GGC’s Student Engagement and Success division, Ciudad-Simmons and her team have been supporting the Hispanic Achievers Committed to Excellence in Results (HACER) living-learning community, which provides academic and cultural experiences to Hispanic/Latino students as well as students who want to learn about Hispanic culture. …She explained that the HACER FUTURO event attracts Hispanic families to campus to experience student life entirely in Spanish. Faculty and staff members share information on academics, admissions, housing, financial aid and more. The event offers parents a chance to be immersed in the student experience by attending “micro-classes” that provide snapshots of classroom experiences.
Dawson News
UNG’s Cottrell MBA to be offered online starting this fall
Erica Jones, DCN Staff
Starting this fall, the University of North Georgia (UNG) will offer its Cottrell Master of Business Administration (MBA) program online for new students. According to a press release by the university, the decision to offer the program online was driven by the number of alumni who wanted a second degree from the school but don’t live near one of the campuses. …Students enrolled in the program will earn 32 credits for the general MBA and 36 credits for the MBA with a graduate certificate specialization. The university offers graduate certificates in cybersecurity, entrepreneurship and innovation and technology leadership.
Grice Connect
Emma Franceschina lands dream job in Nation’s Capital
Emma Franceschina childhood bedroom rarely had the same look twice. Her passion for interior design started at a very young age when she would frequently rearrange her bedroom furniture. …Last week, she walked across the stage to receive her diploma from Georgia Southern University with a degree in interior design. Afterward, she will be moving to Washington, D.C., to use her talents at a global interior design firm. … A community college student in Maryland, Franceschina transferred to Georgia Southern in 2019. She was impressed with the impact the program was making. So, she transferred within the Academic Common Market, which is a multi-state network of universities allowing students to pay in-state tuition for a school outside state borders. …It wasn’t until after she applied for Georgia Southern when she discovered she had family who had attended the school as well decades ago.
WGAU Radio
UGA broadband map helps state pinpoint areas in need
“This is going to have a major impact on a large population of the state of Georgia”
By Roy Parry, UGA Today
Nearly a year after unveiling a groundbreaking map that showed far more Georgians than previously thought were without broadband access, the University of Georgia has helped the state distribute more than $400 million in grants to bring faster and more reliable internet service to communities throughout the state. “The Carl Vinson Institute of Government has been an incredible partner in the mapping and grant effort,” said Jessica Simmons, deputy chief information officer for broadband and special projects at the Georgia Technology Authority. The broadband projects, funded by the federal American Rescue Plan Act, will affect nearly 184,000 locations in 70 counties, with approximately 132,000 of those locations currently unserved by broadband, according to state data. Final numbers, which will indicate how many locations the grants will serve, should be available soon, Simmons said. The map, created by UGA for the State of Georgia Broadband Initiative, became the national gold standard for its accuracy in identifying populations in Georgia unserved by high-speed internet.
WSAV
Senior Citizens, Inc. announces 2022 Legends, Leaders, and Life Well Lived Award recipients
by: Bunny Ware, WSAV Staff
Senior Citizens, Inc. (SCI) announced their 2022 Legends, Leaders, and Life Well Lived Award recipients Friday during a luncheon at The Landings’ Palmetto Club. “Having a life well lived is our organization’s vision. It’s why we work each day to provide and link people to the services and resources they need to age successfully,” said Patti Lyons, SCI president. “The people we are celebrating at the luncheon are role models who exemplify a life well lived.” The 2022 honorees are: Dr. Joe Buck: SCI says Buck has been a beacon to the community in the area of education, having worked for Armstrong State University for nearly four decades as Vice President of Student Affairs and serving as School Board President for Savannah-Chatham County Public School System for three terms.
Savannah Business Journal
Dancing with Savannah Stars raises $225,000 for children in foster care
Savannah Business Journal Staff Report
Brightside Advocacy’s Savannah Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program held its annual Dancing with Savannah Stars fundraising event at Victory North on Friday, May 13. This event featured twelve “Savannah Stars” who were paired with a professional dancer to compete on stage and raise funds to sustain programming needs for Chatham County children who have experienced abuse and neglect. Together, these dancers raised a record-breaking $225,000. This year’s Savannah Stars were …Marvette Wilkerson of Georgia Southern University, Moncello Stewart of Savannah State University.
Americus Times-Recorder
GSW moves Homecoming to fall, plans events for September 2022
By Ken Gustafson
From Staff Reports
Blue and gold. Fried chicken and Thursday. Homecoming and fall. Some things just belong together. In that spirit, Georgia Southwestern State University plans to move Homecoming from spring to fall.
The George-Anne
GS adopted new temporary admissions requirement
Morgan Bridges, Print Managing Editor
Georgia Southern temporarily drops the previous SAT and ACT admissions requirement as of March 18, 2022. What’s new: If students have a 3.2 GPA or higher, these standardized test scores are not required for consideration of their admission. However, if a student has a GPA of less than 3.2, they are encouraged to still submit scores for consideration. Why it matters: “700 new GS students were admitted to the institution immediately following this decision,” said Amy Clines, Director of Admissions.
Reporter Newspapers
Brookhaven partners with UGA to try and improve water, soil quality
by Sammie Purcell
Brookhaven will try to improve the quality of its water and soil through a partnership with the University of Georgia. The city approved a one-year, $150,000 agreement with the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources on April 26, according to a press release. That agreement was for a study to evaluate how biochar might enhance the quality of surface water and soil. Biochar is the residual material that’s left after burning organic materials like waste wood, according to Dr. Daniel Markewitz, professor of soil site productivity at the Warnell School.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Six Georgia Gwinnett College women’s tennis players named NAIA All-Americans
From Staff Reports
Playing significant roles in the Georgia Gwinnett College women’s tennis team capturing its sixth consecutive NAIA national championship has earned six Grizzlies All-America team honors, announced Wednesday, May 24, by the national office. Five GGC student-athletes are featured on the first team while another member was a second-team selection. Senior Maria Genovese headlined the first-team honorees, along with junior Tereza Koplova and sophomores Ale Ferrer, Iryna Lysykh and Selina Pichler. Sophomore Liza Velykorodna was the second NAIA All-America team choice.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College men’s tennis puts six on NAIA All-American Teams
From Staff Reports
Six Georgia Gwinnett College men’s tennis student-athletes have earned NAIA All-America team honors — rewards for helping lead the Grizzlies to their eighth consecutive national championship. The individual awards were announced Wednesday, May 24, by the national office. Four members were featured on the first team while two other student-athletes were second All-America team selections. Seniors Matthias Haim, Valentino Caratini and Agustin Tamagnone were joined by sophomore Alex Gurmendi on the first team. Second-team members were senior Vicente Lagos and freshman Guilhem Perez Le Tiec. Haim was ranked among the nation’s top five NAIA players in both singles and doubles, in selections by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. …Caratini capped his five-year playing career by earning All-America honors for the fourth time. …Tamagnone enjoyed quite a senior season to remember, earning All-America honors for the first time. Gurmendi was victorious in all 17 of his singles matches during the 2022 season. He also won five of his doubles matches while playing with four different partners.
The Enquirer Journal
Columbus State ends Wingate’s baseball season with record 48 wins
By Staff Reports
The defending national champion Wingate University Bulldogs were eliminated from the NCAA Division 2 playoffs on Sunday when ninth-ranked Columbus State defeated the host Bulldogs, 8-7, to advance to the super regionals. Wingate, which entered the postseason ranked fifth in the nation, broke the school record for wins in a season with a 48-10 final record.
Times-Georgian
UWG Athletics announces 2022 Hall of Fame Class
The University of West Georgia has announced the 31st class to be inducted into the UWG Athletics Hall of Fame, with three individuals and one team set to be inducted on Hall of Fame Weekend this fall. “We are excited to welcome this group of inductees this fall,” said Jason Carmichael, Director of Athletics. “From individuals performing at high levels in their respective sports, to a whole team earning championship hardware, this is a collection of talent and accomplishments worth celebrating.”
Albany Herald
PHOTOS: Albany State University celebrates track and field athletes heading to NCAA Nationals
Photos contributed by Reginald Christian
Members of the Albany State University community held a send-off Tuesday for students Ed Gilbert and Sydney Blackburn as they left to compete in the NCAA Division II Nationals.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech’s Chandler Simpson leading NCAA Division I in batting average
By Ken Sugiura
Georgia Tech catcher Kevin Parada isn’t the only member of his team with the chance to finish atop the NCAA’s Division I in a major offensive statistical category. While much attention has been focused on Parada and his pursuit of Tech’s record for home runs in a season and his bid to finish first in Division I in home runs per game and home runs, shortstop Chandler Simpson is the new national leader in batting average. Simpson leads all of Division I with a .422 average and is seeking to become the first Tech player since Mark Teixeira in 2000 to finish the season at .400 or better.
Americus Times-Recorder
GSW Golf Team’s season ends in the Final Four
By Ken Gustafson
From Staff Reports
The Georgia Southwestern golf team lost in their match play contest against Lee University in the NCAA DII National Championship semifinals on Thursday afternoon. The Hurricanes had advanced to the semifinals after a strong 4-1 win over Colorado State Pueblo that morning. Simon Estrada, Nicolas Escobar, Jack Tharrington, and Erik Fogel all won in the early round to put the Hurricanes in their second consecutive Final Four.
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Inside Higher Ed
Student Debt’s Impact on Perceived Value of College
Younger Americans and those with student debt are far less likely than their peers to believe the benefits of getting a higher education outweigh the costs.
By Doug Lederman
The Federal Reserve Bank does more than set the nation’s monetary policy; it also keeps close tabs on Americans’ views of the economy and their own financial well-being. And the latest iteration of its closely watched household survey reaffirms the people’s belief in higher education but offers some significant warning signs for college leaders. Some of the findings of “Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2021” buttress those who believe higher education remains essential for individual economic success and satisfaction in the U.S. Americans with at least a bachelor’s degree remain far likelier than their peers to describe themselves as “at least doing okay” financially, with those who have an associate or technical degree or who attended “some college” well behind and only a bit above those with just a high school degree.
The Hechinger Report
PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back
A staggering 39 million U.S. adults started but didn’t finish college
by Jill Barshay
Ron Floyd dropped out of New Jersey’s Seton Hall University after his junior year more than 20 years ago. His father, the family’s primary breadwinner, had just been laid off from work. Floyd said he lost interest in his studies, was doing poorly in his classes and didn’t want to burden the family with tuition bills. He returned home to East Windsor, Connecticut, to get a job. Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. His father was a college-educated aerospace engineer. But as the years went by, his student debt prevented him from even re-applying to college to resume his studies. Yet through good fortune, hard work and savings, Floyd was able to get back.
Higher Ed Dive
Gates Foundation pushes to scale dual enrollment and early college
Rick Seltzer, Senior Editor
Dive Brief:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday announced a series of six-month grants each totaling about $175,000 to support regional design efforts to boost dual enrollment and early college credit offerings. A dozen groups of organizations around the country are receiving the grants under an initiative the foundation calls Accelerate ED: Seamless Pathways to Degrees and Careers. Students should be able to earn enough credit to finish an associate degree a year after graduating from high school, all while earning career experience at little or no cost, according to the foundation. These pathways are meant to lead to a good job or enable students to transfer to a bachelor’s program. The grants are intended to allow leaders to identify what works in different communities and determine which elements can be scaled to be effective in larger partnerships among higher ed, K-12 and employers.
Inside Higher Ed
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched a new grant program to scale already-successful initiatives across the U.S. that help high school graduates attain postsecondary degrees quickly.
By Maria Carrasco
A new grant program created and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to help high school students complete an associate degree or credential just a year after they graduate high school. The program, called Accelerate ED: Seamless Pathways to Degrees and Careers, is giving 12 teams across the U.S. approximately $175,000 each to scale existing initiatives that help students obtain an associate degree at the end of their “13th year.” The 12 teams are composed of people who work in higher education, secondary schools, community organizations, industry and more.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
How Peer Review Could Improve Our Teaching
It’s time to take a formative — not punitive — approach to evaluating what we do in the college classroom.
By Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Ann Austin, Gabriela Cornejo Weaver, and Noah D. Finkelstein
Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re bound to generate immediate skepticism. Assistant professors will nervously envision all of their teaching innovations — like fewer lectures and more in-class group work — as reduced to: Professor Felicia Smith is engaging but did not cover a great deal of material. No doubt that scenario rings a bell for many readers. It illustrates how much is missed in the typical approach to peer review of teaching. To wit: A designated faculty peer drops by an instructor’s classroom, observes a single class session, and remains unaware of all the work that went into designing and teaching the course. We can do better. Both our programs and our students would benefit from a system that supports an instructor’s pedagogical development and creates opportunities to talk through teaching successes and failures.
Inside Higher Ed
Texas A&M Librarians Lose Tenure in Reorganization Plan
By Josh Moody
Nearly 30 librarians at Texas A&M University have lost either tenured or tenure-track status after the administration opted to reorganize the system’s 10 libraries. Administrators had previously asked librarians to move to a new department to keep tenure or relinquish it. In all, 24 librarians moved to other academic departments, thus maintaining tenure, while 53 converted to staff status. Of those 53 librarians, 19 waived tenure and another nine gave up their tenure-track status, according to The Houston Chronicle. The Faculty Senate opposed the reorganization of the library, on the grounds that the changes were being pushed through too quickly and the university had yet to explain its rationale for the decision.