WSAV
Savannah State awarded $3.1M grant for Upward Bound program
by: Dajhea Jones
Savannah State University (SSU) has been awarded a multi-million-dollar grant to continue the Upward Bound program. The $3.1 million grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to continue the program for an additional five-year period beginning June 1, 2023. SSU’s Upward Bound program has been active since 1966 and is one of eight federal TRIO outreach and student services programs designed to identify and provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. The program provides extensive resources for students that come from low-income families and/or are first-generation potential college students (neither parent has a bachelor’s degree) to help them succeed in and graduate from a college or university.
Albany Herald
ASU Student Spotlight: ASU student to conduct summer research at Washington University
From staff reports
Macon native Bethany Jackson, a sophomore forensic science and chemistry double major at Albany State University, will conduct research this summer with professors at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., on “Developing Stronger Seal Integrity During Geologic CO2 Sequestration.” During her research, Jackson will learn more about geologic carbon sequestration as a method of securing carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep geologic formations. The process would prevent the release of CO2 into the atmosphere so that it does not contribute to global warming. Jackson is a student committed to academic excellence and has held a 3.5 grade-point average since enrolling at ASU.
WGAU Radio
Terry College MBA program earns high ranking
“We are proud of the professional success our graduates achieve”
By David Dodson, UGA Today
The Full-Time MBA program at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business is ranked one of the nation’s 12 best public MBA programs by The Economist in its new survey of the 100 best graduate business programs worldwide, called “Which MBA?” The Georgia MBA ranks No. 12 among public universities in the U.S., No. 28 among all U.S. business schools and No. 36 in the world, according to The Economist survey released June 22. …The Economist gave the Georgia MBA program high marks for helping graduates transition to new career opportunities with much higher starting salaries on average. UGA ranked No. 25 worldwide and No. 10 among public business schools in the survey’s measurement of enabling new career opportunities for its students. UGA also ranked No. 7 globally and top 5 in the U.S. for the percentage increase of graduates’ post-MBA salaries.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Marshall Shepherd Creates Space for Young Scientists
Shepherd’s mission ensures those who don’t fit the faculty mold have a place in the room.
Dr. Marshall Shepherd knows when he walks into a room, he might be the only person of color and the youngest person there. He knows some people assume he is in the wrong place. But Dr. Shepherd is in the right place, and he is redefining how those rooms look and feel for the next generation of scientists. It’s not always intentional with Dr. Shepherd, the University of Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences. His very presence dismantles stereotypes associated with faculty in general and African American faculty in STEM disciplines in particular. …There is little else Dr. Shepherd can earn or add to his crowded trophy case, but he has years of career left, and he has a plan for that time. He says, “There weren’t scientists who looked like me when I was coming through the ranks, but my children can see me and my friends now. We are accessible to them, and the mentorship that we provide might be a motivator for a young person to go into the field, and that is what I want to see.”
Georgia Southern athletics department experiencing ‘transformative’ period in 2022
Eagles baseball team’s great season included hosting NCAA regional for the first time
Nathan Dominitz
Georgia Southern University’s two major construction projects for athletics are years in the making. The Anthony P. Tippins Family Indoor Practice Facility, to be built at a cost of $12.3 million, is scheduled for completion early next year. The Jack and Ruth Ann Hill Convocation Center, to be the new home for the Eagles women’s and men’s basketball programs as well as for academic purposes, is estimated at a total project cost of $64.4 million, including just over $50 million for construction. The facility is targeted for a spring 2024 opening. On the other hand, another milestone in GS athletics had a much shorter turnaround — seven days — from start to finish. Earlier this month, Georgia Southern hosted an NCAA regional tournament for the first time in its long baseball history.
Capitol Beat
Vic Reynolds leaving GBI for Cobb judgeship
by Dave Williams
The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Vic Reynolds, is leaving the law enforcement post for a judgeship in Cobb County, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Friday. Reynolds, who has headed the GBI since 2019, will fill a vacancy on the Cobb Judicial Circuit Superior Court. Kemp also named Deputy Attorney General Julie Adams Jacobs to fill a second vacancy on the court. …Reynolds has been published in both local and national print. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Georgia Southern University and a law degree from Georgia State College of Law. ….A 2003 graduate of Emory University School of Law, Jacobs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Georgia State University.
WTOC
Georgia Southern Hall of Fame member Dr. Patrick “Doc” Spurgeon passes away
By WTOC Staff
Georgia Southern University Hall of Fame member Dr. Patrick “Doc” Spurgeon has died at age 92. Dr. Spurgeon was one of the first assistant coaches hired by Erk Russell. He was also an English Literature professor. Spurgeon coached with Russell and Coach Tim Stowers. He also acted as a lead scout for Russel for four out of six of Georgia Southern’s national Championships. …According to his Hall of Fame bio for his alma mater, Emory and Henry, “Spurgeon’s passions for English and football truly came together in his ability to write scouting reports. He was known for scouting reports that were exceedingly accurate and well written.”
Tifton CEO
ABAC’s Georgia Museum of Agriculture Hosts Wiregrass Freedom Festival on July 2nd
Staff Report
Break out the red, white, and blue on July 2 when visitors can celebrate their patriotic pride at the Wiregrass Freedom Festival at the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Georgia Museum of Agriculture. Ride the 1914 Vulcan Steam Train into the Historic Village and enjoy numerous entertaining games and contests representative of the Wiregrass region of Georgia during the early 20th century. All ages can enjoy traditional baseball, watermelon samples, and challenge their historical vocabulary knowledge with trivia in the Wiregrass School House. Kids can enjoy cane pole fishing in the Grist Mill Pond.
Gardens of Hope Prepares to Launch
Toombs County will be gaining another resource for those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, as the new Recovery Community Organization (RCO), Gardens of Hope, prepares to launch. …“Our organization is very unique in that we are able to work with Georgia Southern [University] to help provide resources for college students,” she remarked. “We also are one of the only RCOs in the surrounding counties that handle most of the DFCS cases.” The group also works with the Statesboro Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps ( JROTC). This program provides early education on addiction to youth. They provide families of RCO members with a free family art class through the Georgia Southern University Averett Center for the Arts and offer parenting classes for members.
River Bender
Megan Wieser
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor James T. Minor, PhD, has named Seth Walker as vice chancellor for University Advancement (VCUA) and CEO of the SIUE Foundation. Pending SIU Board of Trustees approval, Walker will assume the role on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. …Walker most recently served as senior director of development for the Coles College of Business, Graduate College, College of Professional Education, and Division of Global Affairs at Kennesaw State University (KSU). KSU, located in suburban Atlanta, has grown rapidly, and is now the third-largest public university in Georgia, with over 43,000 students.
Albany Herald
PHOTOS: Albany State University Athletics Golf Classic
Photos by: Reginald Christian
On Friday, June 17, Albany State University Athletics hosted the 2022 Golf Classic at the Flint River Municipal golf course. Proceeds from the event were placed in the general athletics scholarship fund.
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Capitol Beat
State awards teacher tax credits
by Dave Williams
The Georgia Department of Education has awarded the first teacher recruitment tax credits to 69 teachers from across the state. The General Assembly voted unanimously last year to create the tax credit to incentivize teachers to ply their profession in rural and low-performing schools. Each teacher selected for the program will receive a $3,000 credit on their state income taxes each year for five consecutive school years.
Reuters
U.S. tech companies yank job offers, leaving college grads scrambling
By Sheila Dang
One by one, over the last week of May, Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) rang up some members of its incoming class of new hires who had recently graduated from college and revoked the job offers in 15-minute calls, according to some of the recipients. “It was traumatic,” Iris Guo, an incoming associate product manager living in Toronto, told Reuters. She received the bad news in a 10:45 p.m. video call that her position had been eliminated. Since then, she has raced to find new employment in order to secure her U.S. work visa. More than 21,500 tech workers in the United States have lost their jobs so far this year, according to Layoffs.fyi, a website that monitors job cuts. The number of tech layoffs in May alone skyrocketed 780% over the first four months of the year combined, according to outplacement services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. But recent college graduates like Guo, who graduated from the University of Waterloo and studied financial management and computer science, represent a new dimension to the cutbacks as their nascent careers are eliminated even before they begin.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
After the Pandemic’s Dark Days, the Outlook for International Enrollments May Be Brightening
By Karin Fischer
American colleges are anticipating a pickup in international enrollments this fall, with two-thirds reporting an increase in overseas applicants, according to a new survey from the Institute of International Education. Sixty-five percent of colleges saw growth in applications from abroad for the 2022-23 academic year, while just 12 percent reported declines, the institute’s Spring 2022 Snapshot on International Educational Exchange found. In a snapshot survey conducted a year ago, 43 percent of institutions said international applications were up — and nearly as many, 38 percent, saw decreases.
Inside Higher Ed
President’s Resignation Marks ‘Start of a New Day’
With embattled president James Mellichamp on the way out, Piedmont University hopes to move past a tumultuous semester of budget cuts, faculty layoffs and high-profile resignations.
By Liam Knox
On Monday, after a special meeting of the Board of Trustees, Piedmont University president James Mellichamp announced that he would retire once a successor is named. A few days later, his husband, Daniel Smith, resigned from his position as senior projects manager at the university. It was the culmination of a tough semester for Piedmont. Two rounds of unexpected budget cuts, faculty layoffs, a vote of no confidence, professors’ contracts hanging in limbo and high-profile resignations from Provost Daniel Silber and endowed professor Carson Webb left the private college in Demorest, Ga., reeling with uncertainty and frustration. Some faculty members left to avoid the possibility of being unceremoniously let go.
Inside Higher Ed
Rutgers Adopts Flexible Work Arrangements
By Colleen Flaherty
Rutgers University plans to adopt flexible work arrangements for employees, it announced Thursday. President Jonathan Holloway said in a statement that “Managing the university throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us to be more flexible, resourceful and resilient while staying focused on what matters most to our students, faculty, staff and the communities we serve.” The new Rutgers Future of Work initiative is based on recommendations from the university’s Future of Work Task Force, which sought input from employees and students via surveys and listening sessions over the last year.
Higher Ed Dive
Delaware moves forward with ‘ban the box’ legislation for college admissions
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
Dive Brief:
The Delaware Senate pushed through a bill this month that would forbid the state’s public and private colleges from inquiring about applicants’ criminal histories. This is what’s known as “ban the box” legislation. Often, such measures limit employers from asking about a criminal record on job applications, but they have gained ground with colleges in the last several years. Delaware’s proposal would permit colleges to ask about students’ criminal backgrounds once they were admitted so they can offer counseling or restrict participation in campus life. It also makes an exception for such offenses as stalking and sexual assault.
Inside Higher Ed
Is It a University’s Duty to Protect Students From Harm?
By Susan H. Greenberg
In an unusual decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling siding with the University of Washington on a Title IX sexual assault claim filed by a former student, while asking the Washington Supreme Court to settle two questions regarding a related negligence claim. The case, Barlow v. State of Washington, centers on Madeleine Barlow, who was a freshman at the University of Washington in Pullman in 2017 when she said senior Thomas Culhane raped her at an off-campus party. She filed a Title IX complaint against Culhane, who had faced prior sanctions for unwanted sexual contact. The university investigated and expelled Culhane. A Washington State jury later convicted him of second-degree rape. Barlow then sued the university for “common-law negligence and a violation of Title IX,” according to the ruling, alleging that the university failed to properly supervise and sanction Culhane after two other women previously reported him for sexual misconduct. That put her at an increased risk, she alleged.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
‘Whose Brilliant Idea Was This?’: How Ohio State Successfully Trademarked the Word ‘THE’
By Wyatt Myskow and Dan Bauman
“So, whose brilliant idea was this? And how much $$$ did we think it would bring?,” read an email from an Ohio State University professor to one of the university’s top spokespeople after news broke in 2019 that Ohio State was attempting to register a trademark for the most commonly used word in the English language — “THE.” …Records obtained by The Chronicle following the news of the trademark application show that top administrators apparently did not have much to do with the “THE” pursuit. Ohio State’s media-relations department knew little about the filing, the documents show, with the university’s then senior associate vice president for university communications writing in an email to a professor that “no one asked me whether we should do this.” The trademark filing — despite all the jokes, as well as doubts from experts about its likelihood for approval — was serious. So serious, in fact, that on Tuesday, Ohio State’s bid to trademark “THE” was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. News of the success was first reported by Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer who also first publicized the application.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Here’s How Title IX Could Change Under Biden’s Proposed Rule
By Kate Hidalgo Bellows
The U.S. Education Department on Thursday released its proposed Title IX regulations, which would reverse many Trump-era policies and restore the pro-victim approach championed by the Obama administration. …The changes would once again upend how colleges handle sexual-misconduct complaints. Experts who work with colleges say campus officials are exhausted by more than a decade of political Ping-Pong over Title IX, as the three most-recent presidential administrations have switched up rules and guidance, and colleges have rushed to comply.
Inside Higher Ed
Many praise his proposal, but some criticize the provisions on due process for those accused.
By Meghan Brink
The Biden administration on Thursday proposed major changes to Title IX that would make it easier for victims of sexual harassment to report possible harm and expands protections to students based on sexual orientation and gender identity, reversing many of the current regulations created by former president Trump. The new rule expands the definition of sexual harassment that was narrowed by the Trump administration as well as throwing out requirements for in-person hearings and cross-examinations. “This is very much a step forward—it has more robust provisions for both complainants and respondents and more specific responsibilities for institutions,” said S. Daniel Carter, president of Safety Advisors for Educational Campuses.