University System News:

Gwinnett Forum
BRACK: UGA president says 85% of students are Ga. residents 
By Elliott Brack
The 22nd president of the University of Georgia, Jere Morehead, addressed the Gwinnett Rotary Club recently, relaying what’s going on at the state’s land grant college. This was his third visit to the Gwinnett Rotary Club since becoming president. … President Morehead told Rotarians something that we had not heard before: that only 15 percent of its first-year student come from outside Georgia, and that this 15 percent represent 43 different states. President Morehead told Rotarians that for the first time, the university has now passed enrolling 40,000 students, with a record 6,200 incoming freshmen students.

Albany Herald
PHOTOS: New student orientation at Albany State University
By Reginald Christian
For students at Albany State University, the fall semester will begin on August 15. Incoming students were welcomed to the university on June 14 at new student orientation.

WJCL News
Summer Celebration returns to Georgia Southern University
By Dave Williams
A summertime tradition returns to Georgia Southern University. After being a COVID-19 casualty the last two years, the Georgia Southern Summer Celebration is back better than ever. The cutting of the watermelon by Georgia Southern President Kyle Marrero marks the return of a longstanding summer tradition for Eagle Nation.

Statesboro Herald
Group travels to visit Georgia Southern’s Ireland campus
By Angye Morrison
Georgia Southern University rising senior Edie Grice is a psychology major who is a self-proclaimed mental health nerd, loves art and helping others. And she also loves to travel. She recently was able to pull all those things together during a trip to Ireland with a group of students and faculty from GSU, the first group to go there to study from the local campus.

WGAU Radio
UGA names dean for Morehead Honors College
By Tim Bryant
Veteran administrator Meg Amstutz has been named dean of the Morehead Honors College at the University of Georgia. It’s a job she’s held on an interim basis since February. Amstutz has, since 2019, served as UGA’s liaison to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, the Commission that issues accreditation to colleges and universities.

Atlanta Business Chronicle
‘Strengthen your foundation’: After championship win, UGA Athletics continues investing in student athletes
By Erin Schilling
The success of the UGA Athletic Association hinges on putting student athletes as the top investment priority, said Darrice Griffin, senior deputy director of athletics.

Higher Education News:

Inside Higher Ed
From college to career success

By Tara A. Rose and Terri L. Flateby

What skills do employers value but find recent college graduates are weak in? That was one of the questions we explored as part of the College to Career Success project, which explored attitudes toward the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ essential learning outcomes (ELOs) among “line managers,” defined as employers supervising recent graduates.

Inside Higher Ed

Otterbein, Antioch U team up to create national system

By Josh Moody

Otterbein and Antioch Universities are combining forces—but not merging—to create an affiliation that aims to build a national university system focused on graduate education and adult learners. Mergers and acquisitions across higher education have made national headlines in recent years as colleges make such moves to remain afloat. But the affiliation, announced Thursday, between Otterbein and Antioch offers a different approach, one more comparable to a business alliance. The two universities hope to officially launch shared programs by fall 2023. But they don’t plan to stop there, as leaders for the two institutions tell Inside Higher Ed that they intend to bring more colleges under the affiliation umbrella to make the yet-to-be-named system truly national.

Inside Higher Ed

For-profits seek to intervene in federal borrower-defense settlement

By Meghan Brink

A major for-profit lobbying organization filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in a lawsuit that was recently settled by the Department of Education. The motion could block the department’s agreement to automatically discharge $6 billion in student debt for 200,000 borrowers with pending borrower-defense claims.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education
U.S. Air Force and Defense Department plan for research center at HBCU

By Arrman Kyaw

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) could soon have the opportunity to elevate their research capacities, courtesy of the U.S. military. The U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced a plan to establish another research center headed by a higher ed institution, a university affiliated research center (UARC). It will be the first UARC for the Air Force and the first such center at an HBCU.

Higher Ed Dive

U of Michigan won’t give new president Santa Ono a faculty job if fired, breaking precedent

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf 

Santa Ono, the incoming president of the University of Michigan, would lose his tenured faculty role if the institution fired him for cause, a departure from typical contracts with college chief executives. This provision in Ono’s five-year contract likely stems from the aftermath of a scandal with his predecessor, Mark Schlissel, who was fired from the presidency in January. Schlissel’s contract permitted him to keep his tenured biology professorship after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with his employee.

Higher Ed Dive

Ransomware attacks surge in education sector

By Matt Kapko

It’s not uncommon for ransomware to target schools, but the financial and operational impacts are an anomaly. Schools and universities are disproportionately jolted by ransomware attacks compared to organizations in other industries, according to Sophos. Across all industries, colleges and universities are the most affected — 97% of higher education respondents said ransomware attacks impacted their ability to operate.

Chronicle of Higher Education

An adult student’s hard lessons

By Lee Gardner