Albany Herald
Boren Awards names UGA a top-performing institution
By Stephanie Schupska University of Georgia
With a record number of eight undergraduates selected as Boren Scholars this spring, the University of Georgia ranks third in the nation on the list of top-performing institutions for Boren Scholarships for 2022. These students will receive funding to study critical languages abroad in exchange for a year of federal service. UGA has had 89 Boren Scholarship and Fellowship offers to date, and 54 in the last 10 years. The university also was named a top-performing institution for Boren Scholarships in 2021.
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ORAU awards 36 research grants totaling $180,000
The Oak Ridger
Oak Ridge Associated Universities has awarded competitive research grants totaling $180,000 to 36 junior faculty from its member institutions. Additionally, MITRE has partnered with ORAU to fund five awards. The annual grants are made through the company’s Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards program that provides funds to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty. The awards recognize faculty members for their work in any of five science and technology disciplines: engineering and applied science; life sciences; mathematics and computer science; physical sciences; and policy, management or education. MITRE’s awards fund work in health disparities and health equity, according to a news release.
… ORAU Award Recipients: …Spencer Bryngelson — Georgia Institute of Technology
… MITRE Award Recipients: …Deborah Jehu — Augusta University
The Brunswick News
College announces promotions for numerous professors
By Lauren McDonald
College of Coastal Georgia’s Office of Academic Affairs recently announced the awarding of tenure and promotions to 13 faculty members. The faculty members have been recognized for their hard work and commitment to providing Coastal Georgia students with academic instruction, and mentoring. The tenure and promotions will be effective in the 2022-2023 academic year.
The Augusta Press
Area teachers undergo professional development at Augusta University Summer Institute
The end of the school year marked the beginning of some continued education for some local educators with the 2022 Augusta University Writing Project Summer Institute launching the week of June 6. “Our summer institute is like the heart,” said Augusta University professor and Writing Project director Rebecca Harper.
Moultrie Observer
Spring semester graduates total 307 at ABAC
Staff Reports
A total of 307 students completed the requirements for graduation from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at the end of the 2022 spring semester. Of the 311 degrees awarded by the college, 194 were bachelor degrees. More than 2,159 students pursued four-year degrees at ABAC in Biology, Nursing, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Agricultural Communication, Agricultural Education, Business, Environmental Horticulture, History and Government, Natural Resource Management, Rural Community Development, and Writing and Communication.
Albany Herald
Albany State professor takes ‘musical mission’ to South Africa
By Carlton Fletcher
Most college-age musicians go to other countries in search of the big three: sex, drugs, and to earn their stripes in rock and roll. Joel Johnson is an anomaly, an outlier. In a roundabout way, he used an opportunity to tour Europe with a musical theater troupe as a means of finding, of all things, a passion for teaching he never dreamed he had. It’s those two passions in Johnson’s life — teaching and music — that led him, on his own dime, it should be noted, to South Africa to play music and present lectures at college campuses as part of his “2022 International Music Industry Hip-Hop and American Popular Music Academic Lecture/Performance Series.”
Internewscast
“We’re able to diagnose earlier,” MCG using new technology to detect skin cancer
The Medical College of Georgia is hosting pigmented lesion clinics where you can be examined with technology that doctors say is changing the game in early detection. “It’s a relief knowing that it’s probably not anything major,” patient Christian Moores said. Moores received good news at MCG’s pigmented lesion clinic on Friday. He noticed a discolored spot on his arm and worried it was cancer, but thanks to new technology, Moores has an answer without an invasive procedure. “Bottom line is, when we evaluate the patient with this device, if it’s not a skin cancer nothing more needs to be done. They don’t need an unnecessary biopsy, or a biopsy that was necessary with the tools that we had before,” Dr. Harold Rabinovitz said.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College tennis wins three national ITA awards
From staff reports
Postseason honors continue to pile up for the Georgia Gwinnett College tennis programs with three national awards being presented by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association for the Grizzlies’ championship 2022 season. Senior Maria Genovese was named the Women’s Tennis Senior Player of the Year while senior Agustin Tamagnone was the Men’s Tennis Most Improved Senior. Head Coach Chase Hodges received the Wilson ITA Women’s National Coach of the Year. Genovese led the ITA’s NAIA singles and doubles national rankings this past spring after capturing the NAIA doubles national championship at the ITA Cup last fall. She posted a 10-1 record in singles matches and won nine of 11 matches in doubles during her senior season.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College hires Hannah Keeling to lead powerhouse tennis teams
From Staff Reports
The Georgia Gwinnett College’s successful tennis programs will have a familiar leader. Hannah Keeling was announced Monday as the Grizzlies’ new head coach for men’s and women’s tennis, returning to Lawrenceville and the GGC Tennis Facility as the replacement for founding head coach Chase Hodges, who remains as an advisor with the program. Keeling was an assistant coach at GGC from 2018-20, helping the men’s and women’s teams sweep NAIA national championships in 2018 and 2019.
Aiken Standard
South Aiken High School’s Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) program received recognition again this year from Augusta University Professor of Military Science Lt. Col. Jeffrey Keenan as he announced two of the school’s NJROTC Cadets have earned distinction as JROTC Cadets of the Year on May 10. Junior Savanna Welch and Sophomore Keira Tallent received the honor of being named the 2022 Augusta University JROTC Senior Cadet of the Year and 2022 Augusta University JROTC Junior Cadet of the Year, respectively. Savanna also received the Junior Cadet of the Year award in 2021.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eric Stirgus named education editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Todd C. Duncan
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is pleased to announce that Eric Stirgus has been named the newspaper’s Education Editor. Stirgus has been a journalist with the AJC since November 2001, and its readers have benefited from his reporting across metro Atlanta and Georgia. Prior to being named Education Editor, he was the newspaper’s higher education reporter. “I’m humbled by this opportunity,” Stirgus said. “We have a talented and hardworking team, and I hope to help them tell important and insightful stories about education and its impact on metro Atlanta and Georgia.”
Inside Higher Ed
Plenty of students want to become nurses, but the nation’s institutions don’t have the capacity to teach or train them. A spate of innovative new programs across the U.S. is seeking to change that.
By Maria Carrasco
Like many states in the U.S., Michigan faces a desperate shortage of nurses. In order to meet health-care demands, officials project the state will need an additional 6,620 registered nurses every year from now until 2028. …That’s why the MCCA and three other organizations—the Michigan Association of State Universities, Michigan Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Michigan Health and Hospital Association—have developed a new partnership that aims to graduate more nurses from state institutions.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How Northside’s extern program is preparing future nurses
By Nancy Clanton
Students learn ins and out of hospital while still in nursing school
Amy Tortoriello is a rising senior at Georgia Southern University’s School of Nursing. She’s also a labor and delivery nurse at Northside Hospital — well, at least until school starts back in the fall. Tortoriello is part of Northside’s Nurse Extern Program, designed “to engage nursing students a little bit earlier in their school career to give them an opportunity to get acclimated to an inpatient environment, develop some relationships with nurses and former external residents, and to build their confidence as they transition from student to nurse,” said Teal Edmeade, manager of talent acquisition at Northside. Although the program is only a year old, it is already popular with students. For the 100 spaces available its first year, Edmeade said she received 200 applications.
Higher Ed Dive
Here’s a closer look at which stopped-out students are reenrolling in college
At a time when 39 million people have attended college without earning a credential, understanding who has returned could help future recruiting.
By Lilah Burke
A whopping 39 million adults under 65 have left college without completing a credential. But in the 2020-21 academic year, just 2.4% reenrolled in class. That’s according to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Released early last month, it showed the number of stopped-out students grew by 1.9 million, or 5.3%, since the last time numbers were calculated in December 2018. For institutions and states, understanding who, exactly, is reenrolling can help with strategizing about how to attract and graduate other stopped-out students.
Higher Ed Dive
OPINION
Colleges can steer away from higher ed’s demographic cliff
Analytics can help institutions find untapped sources of students, argues an entrepreneurship professor and president of enrollment software firm Othot.
By Andy Hannah (Andy Hannah is an adjunct professor of analytics and entrepreneurship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business and president of Liaison International’s Othot Division, which focuses on predictive and prescriptive analytics.)
For the last seven years, I have taught a course on analytics at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business. Every day, my students and I talk about how major companies and startups use business intelligence and analytics to get ahead of trends and accomplish their goals — or fall behind. It’s hard to imagine a better backdrop than Pittsburgh for teaching these lessons. Over the last three decades of the 20th century, Pittsburgh experienced a massive decline in population as it lost manufacturing-related jobs. Yet since then, Pittsburgh has rebuilt itself into a powerful innovation and technology hub, correctly forecasting immense growth in this sector while attracting young and bright workers to support it.
The Washington Post
Opinion 101 HBCUs get nearly 7 times less money than 1 other school. That must change.
By Tony Allen and Glenda Glover (Tony Allen, president of Delaware State University, chairs the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Glenda Glover, president of Tennessee State University, is the board’s vice chair.)
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) make up only 3 percent of the country’s colleges and universities, but they enroll 10 percent of all African American students and produce nearly 20 percent of all African American graduates. These schools generate nearly $15 billion in direct economic impact and produce 80 percent of Black judges, 25 percent of Black science professionals, 70 percent of Black dentists and physicians, and 40 percent of Black members of Congress. HBCUs are the primary driver of moving low-income Black people into the middle class. Despite that remarkable return on investment, the disparity in financial support for HBCUs and for predominantly White institutions of higher education (PWIs) continues to widen. The United Negro College Fund calculated that between 2003 and 2015, the federal funding gap between HBCUs and PWIs has actually quadrupled, from about $400 to $1,600 per student.
Inside Higher Ed
Support for Debt Forgiveness, But…
A new poll shows 82 percent of borrowers believe Biden should make college more affordable.
By Meghan Brink
A poll conducted by NPR and Ipsos found that although debt forgiveness is popular among Americans, a majority would prefer the Biden administration focus on efforts to make college more affordable. The poll of over 1,000 Americans provided a look into what both borrowers and individuals without student debt think about various aspects of President Biden’s promised plan to cancel at least some student debt. Over half of all respondents, both those who have loans and those who don’t, support a move by Biden to relieve at least $10,000 of student debt per borrower, which has been reported to be the administration’s most likely proposal. On the other hand, 82 percent said that Biden should prioritize making college more affordable over debt forgiveness.
Inside Higher Ed
The ‘Pernicious’ Practice of Withholding Transcripts to Collect Debt
Federal scrutiny grows of a practice colleges use widely. Two experts discuss what policy makers and institutions can do to avoid impeding students from jobs or further education.
By Doug Lederman
Should unpaid debts to their colleges stop students from getting jobs or continuing their educations? Some government officials don’t think so, and they are targeting transcript withholding, in which colleges and universities prevent former students from receiving academic transcripts they need for employment or enrollment at a new institution. This is a tiny piece of the $1.7 trillion student debt problem in American higher education, but more than most, it is in the control of colleges and universities. That’s part of the reason why Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have identified transcript withholding as a possibly unfair debt collection practice.
Inside Higher Ed
He apparently won his case by accusing Georgetown of going after his money.
By Scott Jaschik
Amin Khoury, the father of a Georgetown University student, was acquitted Thursday on charges that he paid $180,000 in cash to Gordon Ernst, Georgetown’s tennis coach, to have his daughter admitted, The New York Times reported. The case was similar to the Varsity Blues cases, but it was not one of them. In this case, a different middleman was involved. Khoury’s defense was that such payments are sought by many universities. In Khoury’s case, the middleman was a friend of his from Brown University. When Khoury was a student at Brown, he played on the tennis team with the middleman and Ernst.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Piedmont University president to retire amid upheaval
By Josh Reyes
Mellichamp named in lawsuits and received a vote of no confidence from faculty
In recent months, Piedmont University in the North Georgia mountains has eliminated teaching positions, navigated financial troubles and seen its provost resign over budget cuts. James Mellichamp, the school’s president of the last decade, who’s been blamed for many of the problems, announced during Monday’s board of trustees meeting that he will retire, according to a statement to faculty, students and staff. Mellichamp’s announcement seemingly preempted a vote about his firing just a month after a majority of the faculty voted no confidence in his leadership. “We thank (Mellichamp) for his years of commitment to Piedmont and wish him the best as he moves forward,” read a statement by the faculty senate. “It has not escaped our attention that the press release carefully worded his departure as dependent on the naming of a ‘permanent successor.’ ”