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EGSC brings back Vision Series: University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue to headline
East Georgia State College (EGSC) is excited to announce the return of the Vision Series in September. University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue will be the speaker for the event. EGSC faculty, staff, students, and the community are invited to attend Thursday, September 22, at 7 p.m. in the Luck Flanders Gambrell Building on the campus of EGSC in Swainsboro. The Vision Series at EGSC is an initiative that brings programs of intellectual and cultural enrichment to the College and its broader constituency. Since its inception, the Vision Series has hosted outstanding personalities, authors, newsmakers, musical performances, dance companies, and theatrical productions. Through sponsored field trips, students and community members have opportunities to attend exhibitions and dramatic productions, not only in Georgia, but in neighboring states, as well.
WGAU Radio
UGA recognized for work with veterans
By Tim Bryant
Make it eight straight years for the University of Georgia: UGA is again named as a Military Friendly Tier One Research Institution for its work with students who are military veterans.
From UGA Today…
The University of Georgia is once again named a Military Friendly Tier I Research Institution for academic year 2022-2023; a designation earned each year since 2014 according to Victory Media. Since 2017, UGA has been recognized as a Gold Award winner for placing within 20 percent of the top ranked institutions in each category and this year finished in the top 16 percent of the 665 schools earning Military Friendly. Additionally, according to Military Times, UGA made its Best For Vets list this year.
VA News
#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran George L. Fredrick
George L. Fredrick is a native of Fairfax, South Carolina and is known in his local community as “Colonel Fred.” He enlisted in the Army and completed his associate’s degree simultaneously by attending school at night and on the weekends. Following a short gap period in his service, he returned to college and then reentered the Army by joining the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). …Later, Fredrick earned a master’s in military operational art and science from Ft. Leavenworth School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), a master’s in personnel management from Central Michigan University, a specialist in education administration from Columbus State University and a doctorate in educational leadership from Georgia Southern University. …Fredrick then returned to Georgia Southern University, working first as a scholarship and enrollment officer for its ROTC program, and then becoming its director of military and Veteran services in February 2020, where he continues to serve today.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful awards scholarships, recognizes stewardship
By Karen Huppertz
During Governor Brian Kemp’s recent Environmental Address, Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful awarded student scholarships and announced community awards for environmental stewardship. Georgia Gwinnett College students Brian Land and Ngoc Lan Thanh Le each received $2,500 scholarships and former Green Youth Advisory Council members, Daniel Jung and Logan Zimmerman, were each awarded $2,000 GC&B Jim Steele Environmental Education Scholarships. Winners of the 2022 Environmental Consciousness and Stewardship (ECoS) Awards were also announced:
Emanuel County Live
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery: Meet inspiring teacher Keri Claxton
by Brittany Hall
Teachers are like North Stars, guiding the younger generation towards a prosperous life and driving away the darkness of the world with the light of knowledge. Their patience and dedication deserve much recognition, because like Malcom X said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery and although I am not a teacher, there is one who is the perfect example of what it takes to be in this noble profession; 37-year-old Keri Grimm Claxton. …Claxton is currently in her 15th year of teaching, all of which have been served right here in Swainsboro. …Immediately after graduating from high school, she followed her passion and began her college career in pursuit of an Associate Degree of Arts in Education from Middle Georgia College. At the time, Georgia Southern University had a satellite school on the campus of Middle Georgia in Dublin, so she chose to continue her education there and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education.
Athens CEO
Gift Supports Diversity Scholarships for Georgia Full-Time MBA Students
Staff Report
Two University of Georgia students in the Georgia Full-Time MBA program will have their tuition paid for thanks to a generous gift from a former financier seeking to promote diversity and offer financial support to qualified MBA candidates. Robert Pozen, a former president and vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, will sponsor the pair of minority students from the state of Georgia with the goal they become future business leaders in the state. UGA’s Pozen Scholars join a host of students from Southeastern Conference universities where Pozen has set up a similar scholarship, including Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama. Opportunities for diverse students play an integral role at the Terry College, and the addition of the Pozen Scholars program only bolsters the initiatives the college has already in place.
AllOnGeorgia
Portal Middle High Honor Graduate Receives $2.5K Hulsey Scholarship
Jaycee Sanchez, a 2022 honor graduate of Portal Middle High School, recently received the $2,500 Marion C. Hulsey and Terri Bell Hulsey Scholarship. Sanchez was an active member of the school’s Beta Club, National FFA Organization chapter, and Student Government. As a student athlete, she also played softball, was a cheerleader, and was a member of the track and field team. Sanchez dual enrolled at Georgia Southern University while in high school. She has chosen to remain at Georgia Southern to pursue a degree in Nursing at the university’s Armstrong campus. Established by Portal Middle High School alumnae Marion C. Hulsey and his wife Terri, the couple hopes the scholarship will help young people on their education journeys. They hope to continue the tradition of Portal being home to successful and accomplished business owners and leaders.
Mirage News
Wild about peanuts – using crop wild relatives to improve today’s crops
Crop breeders release a new variety of a disease-resistant peanut
However you eat your peanuts – shelled, salted, or in a favorite mix – they are a snack item enjoyed by many. The peanut we eat is technically a seed, and they also are a rich source of oils. An obstacle this crop faces, however, is a variety of plant diseases that reduce yields. In the September 22ndSustainable, Secure Food Blog, crop breeders discover a new variety of peanut that is disease-resistant, with help from crop wild relatives. Crop wild relatives are the ancient ancestors of today’s cultivated crops. And even today, they live on in various harsh locations – deserts, roadside ditches. Places where they look like “weeds.” But really, these crop wild relatives contain important genetic information for today’s crop breeders. Crop breeders at the University of Georgia recently released a new variety of peanut that is disease-resistant thanks to help from the crop wild relative of peanut.
Augusta CEO
Augusta University Supports Vulnerable Populations with Clínica Latina
Paige Fowler
As Georgia’s only public academic medical center, Augusta University has a significant public health responsibility: a duty to support the health and wellness of the local and state community. One way the university realizes that mission is by providing vulnerable populations with access to medical care. Clínica Latina is a free clinic managed by the Asociación Latina de Servicios del CSRA (ALAS), a nonprofit organization established in 2005 that supports the wellbeing of Hispanic people and other underserved populations in the CSRA. The clinic is presently run on the Health Sciences Campus at Augusta University. ALAS offers several other free clinics and even extends past health care, also offering interpreter and identification services, English language education and cultural education to the community. Daniel Herrera, a second-year medical student at the Medical College of Georgia, is head clinic coordinator for Clínica Latina, where he manages eight other coordinators that oversee the facility and support the patients.
Columbus CEO
Columbus State Extends ‘test-optional’ Admissions Standards for 2023-24 Academic Year
Staff Report
Columbus State University is among the 24 University System of Georgia (USG) institutions allowed recently to continue temporarily waiving test score requirements for the 2023-24 academic year. The extension of this waiver, approved recently by the USG, applies to undergraduate student applications for the Fall 2023, Spring 2024 and Summer 2024 semesters. “Test-optional” admissions criteria applies to prospective students who:
WRBL
by: Simone Gibson
As millions in the U.K. continue to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, two Columbus State University (CSU), who were visiting London when the U.K. government officially announced the Queen’s death share their reactions and emotions to the news. At the time, CSU staff members Kristi Rehrauher and Eric Spearshad had just finished a tour of Buckingham Palace. The two, along with other CSU staff members, left the palace and started walking toward Parliament. They noticed people gathering near Queen Elizabeth’s statue as they left the palace. That is when the staff members heard bagpipes, saw military personnel leave the barracks near Buckingham Palace, and listened to the official announcement of the Queen’s death.
List23
Elisabeth Elie Scott: Everything We Know About Survivors
By Claire Reid
Survivor is perhaps the most popular reality show. It allows the participants to demonstrate their abilities and become the winner of the season. …Many of the actors featured in the program have become wildly popular as a result of their participation in the competition. Season 43 of the series introduced some interesting cast members, including Elisabeth “Elie” Scott, who was initially assigned to the Baka tribe in the installment. Many are curious to learn more about the participant, and we are here to share everything we know so far.
ELISABETH SCOTT’S PROFESSION
Elisabeth “Elie” Scott is a clinical psychologist by profession who enjoys working in the psychological field since she was in high school. However, Elie persevered and continued to pursue her interests. She earned a 3.89 GPA at Georgia Southern University during her master’s and doctoral degrees. While describing what her job entails, the reality TV star said she believed her psychological knowledge would give her an advantage. “My job is quite complex. I work with veterans who have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You never know what you’ll get in any session,” she told Parade.
The Red & Black
UGA alum publishes ‘The College Student’s Vegetarian Cookbook’
Elizabeth Rymarev
Following the release of “The College Man’s Cookbook” and its sequel, “The College Woman’s Cookbook”, University of Georgia alum George Hirsch Jr. and his mother, Carrie Hirsch, teamed up again to create a third publication for a brand new demographic of college students: Vegetarians. “The College Student’s Vegetarian Cookbook” includes 100 recipes developed by the mother-son duo that caters to meat-free eaters with recipes like quinoa tacos, black bean burgers and green olive tapenade. …As a college student, studying and going to class takes up a large portion of the day and leaves almost no time for cooking or preparing meals, George Hirsch explains. For beginner cooks, crossing the threshold of where to start when cooking can be intimidating. Having a guide on where to begin can change perspective and comfort level in the kitchen, he said. Once the college student has completed the book, there is a cut-out diploma at the end to signify a graduation of the cookbook.
Athens CEO
Report: ‘Service with a smile’ Costs More Than You Think
Merritt Melancon
Managers know that happy employees are more productive and provide better customer service, but what is the cost of that service with a smile? New research from the Terry College of Business reveals becoming a happy, helpful employee takes effort and, eventually, that effort erodes the energy needed to do one’s job. It could lead to quiet quitting – the new term for just doing your job but not going above and beyond – or even actual quitting. Fadel Matta, an associate professor of management; Jessica Rodell, William Harry Wilson Distinguished Chair in management; and Emma Frank, an assistant professor of management at the University of New Hampshire and a recent Terry Ph.D. graduate, published their findings in the July edition of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
The Augusta Chronicle
Former neurosurgery resident at AU brings second lawsuit, claims retaliation
Abraham Kenmore
A former neurosurgery resident at Augusta University and AU Medical Center last month filed a lawsuit claiming retaliation and a failure by the institutions to follow proper procedures when suspending, and eventually terminating, her in 2019. This is the second lawsuit Dr. Sarah Kavianpour has filed against the university and AU Medical. She filed a complaint in 2019 that charged the university with discrimination around her dismissal, allegedly for missing a drug test. This second lawsuit from Kavianpour is based on information that came forward during discovery for her first lawsuit in October 2021, and for actions that occurred after that initial lawsuit was filed. It names the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia, Augusta University Medical Center, Dr. Philip Coule, chief medical officer for AUMC, and others. …In a follow up email to the USA Today network, Kavianpour said that this document means that the Board of Regents could have overturned the decision to suspend her access to the hospital that began the termination process, even though the Board of Regents has claimed it could not. None of the defendants in the second lawsuit have filed responses yet to the complaint.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Students’ Trust in Their Colleges Held Steady During Covid’s Early Days, Study Finds
By Carolyn Kuimelis
Despite widespread frustration caused by the sudden shift to online learning in the spring of 2020, a new study shows that most students’ sense of trust in higher education was largely unaffected by the Covid-19 disruptions — at least in the early months of the pandemic. Students with disabilities even reported increased trust in their colleges, which is “likely the result of some very concerted effort to make sure that transition was a smooth one for those who were identified as needing extra support,” said Shannon Calderone, an assistant professor of educational leadership at Washington State University and the lead author of the study. Self-paced, online learning also worked better for some of those students, Calderone said.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Labor Market Is Hot, but Not for New College Grads
By Audrey Williams June
For years, most students have placed a premium on the job-related benefits of going to college. The share of students who said getting a better job was a “very important reason” to attend college hit a record high of 87.9 percent in 2012 — and has hovered in the mid-80s since then, according to a national survey of incoming freshmen. And while a four-year degree still pays off relative to not going to college, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York show that new college graduates are facing tougher employment prospects than are all job seekers in the larger labor market.
Inside Higher Ed
Bill Would Make Colleges Pay for Defaults
Katherine Knott
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, wants universities to pay for student loans in default and the Congress to make other changes to the Higher Education Act of 1965 as part of a new bill introduced Wednesday. Under the Make the Universities Pay Act, a university would have to pay 50 percent of its students’ loan balances in default. The colleges and universities also would be barred from raising tuition to cover this expense, “unless there is an equivalent percentage decrease in administrative expenses at the institution.” The six-page bill also would allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy and require higher education institutions to report mean and median earnings of graduates and loan default rates, disaggregated by degree or program. The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard already has much of that information.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
What the Faltering OPM Market Means for Colleges
Even institutions not involved with the companies should take heed.
By Phil Hill
Colleges are increasingly turning to for-profit companies to develop and manage their online programs. The value of the online-program-management, or OPM, market is now estimated to be more than $4 billion. With that growth has come increased scrutiny, not only from higher-education observers but also from the federal government. In January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Sherrod Brown wrote an open letter, following up on one they sent in 2020, to several ed-tech companies. The letters sought more information about how the businesses operate, specifically highlighting accusations of overly aggressive student-recruitment practices and their role in the student-debt crisis. In May the Government Accountability Office released a report pointing out the lack of available information about the arrangements and recommending how the Education Department should better monitor them.