The Georgia Virtue
Georgia Southern Will Host The 2023 Governor’s Honors Program
Hundreds of the state’s best and brightest rising high school juniors and seniors will flood Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus during the summer of 2023 to participate in the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program (GHP), the state’s most prestigious four-week, residential summer program. The GHP provides students with academic, cultural and social enrichment and covers all tuition fees and boarding costs. Students apply to attend GHP for a variety of majors in academic studies or fine arts and have the opportunity to develop personally and academically by selecting an additional elective outside of their major area. When the contract came up for renewal, Georgia Southern submitted a proposal to host the program.
AllOnGeorgia
Georgia Southern University students majoring in human development and family science with a concentration in family services have the opportunity to earn their master’s degree in public administration at an advanced pace through a new accelerated program. The accelerated bachelor’s to master’s program provides students with the opportunity to apply up to 12 credit hours of Master of Public Administration (MPA) coursework toward both their undergraduate and graduate degree requirements. The accelerated program allows a student to complete the bachelors and masters degrees in a total of five years. The family services concentration in HDFS is now available as an online program while the MPA degree is hybrid (half online, half in person on the Statesboro Campus).
WGAU Radio
UGA enters second year of campus security upgrades
By Tim Bryant
The University of Georgia is beginning the second year of a three-year, $8.5 million investment aimed at enhancing campus security measures: UGA says there will be new police officers hired and new lighting and security cameras installed.
From UGA president Jere Morehead…
Recently the University of Georgia was ranked #2 in the nation for the best student life in America by Niche. That’s exciting news, and it affirms the positive impact of the many programs we have in place to expand the intellectual horizons of our students, support their individual needs, and provide a fun and engaging atmosphere in which to live and learn. But in order to thrive, students and all members of our campus community—including our faculty, staff, alumni and visitors—must feel safe. …The University of Georgia is now in the second year of a three-year, $8.5 million investment to enhance campus security measures, including the placement of additional lighting and security cameras; the hiring of additional police personnel; the establishment of a nightly rideshare program launched in Fall 2021; and the introduction of a new and more robust smart phone safety app. These recent measures augment nearly $6 million the University has made in safety improvements over the previous five years for a seven-year commitment of over $14 million.
Athens CEO
UGA’s Archway Partnership Wins Regional Award for Outreach
Staff Report
The University of Georgia is the regional winner of the 2022 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award for its Archway Partnership outreach program. The program takes UGA faculty and students into Georgia communities to help address locally identified challenges. UGA now will compete against three other regional winners for the national C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award, which will be announced by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) in November. The Magrath Award includes a $20,000 prize, while regional winners receive $5,000 each.
WALB
GSW takes part in annual ‘Days of Giving’
By Fallon Howard
Over in Americus, you can eat local and fund a college kid’s education at the same time. Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) is raising money for student scholarships with its annual 24-hour giving challenge. Little Brothers Bistro and Cafe is one of 16 restaurants in Americus that is giving a portion of their proceeds and taking donations to help students pay for their education. GSW wants to turn every state gold, symbolizing that money was given from that state towards student scholarships. …GSW’s goal is to have someone from all 50 states make a donation.
Georgia Entertainment News
VIDEO: Expansion Set for Athens, Ga., Film, TV Studio One Year Into Construction
By Staff
In November 2021, construction began on a $60 million, 45-acre sound-stage development project in Athens, Ga., to attract film and television production to the college town. In September 2022, not even one year into the project, Athena Studios announced that it had purchased an additional 65 acres of land adjacent to the original site currently under construction at 900 Athena Dr. The move was made in anticipation of demand for its initial 200,000-sq.-ft., purpose-built production space. …Athena Studios CEO Joel Harber told the Athens news source that the University of Georgia (UGA) and Georgia Film Academy (GFA) building, which is currently being built to house the studio’s business office entrance, is slated to open later this year. Designed to create a local industry workforce through its partnership with UGA and GFA, the building will include a 14,000-sq.-ft. learning center with its own sound stage. Film and TV production students will be moving from their current 2,000-sq.-ft. space on campus into the much larger facility when it is finished.
Savannah Business Journal
Lime to Demo New Industry Leading Gen4 Shared Electric Bicycles in Savannah Sept. 22-23
Savannah Business Journal Staff Report
Lime will host a series of three demonstrations of its latest model e-bike in Savannah on Thursday, Sept. 22, and Friday, Sept. 23. The demos will be conducted in conjunction with Chatham Area Transit (CAT), and Georgia Southern and will take place in three locations throughout the City. Lime, the world’s largest provider of shared electric vehicles, aims to familiarize residents with its vehicles and services, offering a glimpse at what a micromobility program could entail in Savannah. Lime will discuss and demonstrate proper parking etiquette, safe riding techniques, where to ride on the street, and how to be respectful of other road users. …The demonstrations will be conducted in close proximity to public transit and historic Georgia Southern.
The City Menus
Fresh Prints: Select donors to receive unique incentive for 40th A Day
For the 40th anniversary of A Day to Give West, the University of West Georgia’s annual fundraising drive, members of the steering committee hope to commemorate the occasion by honoring both the donors and the students who benefit from their generosity. This year, anyone who contributes $100 or more will receive a watercolor print created by painting student Rachel Christiansen featuring the signage of an entrance to UWG. …A Day will culminate in celebration on Thursday, Oct. 20. To make a gift, please visit the Give West webpage.
The Moultrie Observer
AET Truck and Tractor Pull on Oct. 6-8 at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Staff Reports
Trucks and tractors of all shapes and sizes will rev their engines and roar down the track on Oct. 6-8 at the Fall AET Truck and Tractor Pull sponsored by the Agricultural Engineering Technology Club at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The event is open to all ABAC students, faculty, staff, and the public. Gates open at 6 p.m. each night. During the event, trucks and tractors pull a weighted sled down a dirt track. The weight moves toward the front of the sled as the vehicle pulls it down the track, making it more difficult to pull. Trucks and tractors are divided into various weight classes. ABAC has two pulling tractors, Altered Allis and Cracker Jack.
Henry County Times
Georgia Archives to host free public presentation
Special to the Times
On Friday, September 23, from 9:30 until 11 a.m., the Georgia Archives is offering the presentation “Segregated Schools in Georgia: Separate but Not Equal” by Reference Archivist Tamika Strong. This presentation is made available through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The presentation is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.
The Red & Black
Stacey Abrams talks campaign platform at virtual roundtable
Erin Diehl
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, held a virtual roundtable with reporters from college newspapers throughout the state on Tuesday. During the meeting, Abrams detailed her vision if she were elected, including her basic principles: healthcare, housing, education and economic security. “When I say thrive, what I mean is returning us to the fundamentals that make success possible, prosperity possible, economic security possible, and that is investing in education, and health care, and housing,” Abrams said. The former House Minority Leader said she supports increased wages. In her opening remarks, Abrams said she thinks the number one issue in education is pay. She hopes to institute a starting salary of $50,000 and “give real substantive increases of $11,000 across the board of educators” over the next four years. Abrams was in Athens on Saturday to stand with the United Campus Workers of Georgia as they advocated for better wages. The Red & Black asked what her plan was to assist labor unions and work with the Board of Regents to help them advocate for better salaries.
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Higher Ed Dive
The sale of student lists exacerbates inequity in the admissions process, reports say
Laura Spitalniak, Associate Editor
Dive Brief:
Student lists from providers like the College Board and the ACT systematically exclude underrepresented students, according to a series of reports released Wednesday by The Institute for College Access & Success. Researchers found list search filters, which allow colleges to select which demographics of students they buy information on, disproportionately exclude students from low-income and rural communities, as well as communities of color. Whether a student allows their information to be sold also affects college access outcomes for millions of students, researchers found. Among students with the same SAT score, parental education, race/ethnicity and gender who graduated from the same high school, 41.1% of those who opted to allow one testing provider to license their information to colleges attended a four-year institution. That’s compared to 32.8% of students who opted out. The difference was even higher for students from historically excluded backgrounds.
Inside Higher Ed
A Need to Succeed: What Students Want and Get From Internships
Students evaluate internships and experiential learning opportunities, including virtual roles that the pandemic made more widely available, and how stronger partnerships and other efforts would help.
By Melissa Ezarik
Violet Schuttler, a graduate of Franklin Pierce University, in rural New Hampshire, has a good story to tell about how the first of her three internships—the only off-campus one—came about. When respondents to the latest Student Voice survey were asked to identify how they heard about or got their most recent internship, the campus career center, a professor or a job search website emerged as students’ most common answers, at 14 percent each. Indeed, Schuttler’s second and third experiences, involving production work on a NHPBS station show and video editing for a political caucus, were found via a professor mentor.
Inside Higher Ed
Bill Would Require Public Information About Transfers
By Scott Jaschik
A bill introduced by U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, would require colleges to release more information about transfer policies, The Texas Tribune reported. The bill would require two-year and four-year colleges to post information about transfer deadlines for admissions and financial aid, as well as a list of all the colleges at or from which a student’s credits are guaranteed to be accepted. Castro said the bill would help students “save valuable time and money” as they pursue degrees.
Higher Ed Dive
Enrollment managers should work with other leaders to craft admissions and messaging strategies, experts said at an annual admissions conference.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
At a Thursday session of the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s annual meeting, a panelist posed a question to the room: Do you feel prepared if the U.S. Supreme Court were to strike down race-conscious admissions? Not one college enrollment management official raised their hands to say yes. It’s far from a hypothetical, though. The high court is due on Halloween to start hearing oral arguments in cases that could fundamentally reshape nearly 50 years of legal precedent permitting tailored consideration of race in college admissions. Legal experts foresee that, given the Supreme Court’s hard conservative majority, it will almost certainly end race-conscious admissions.
Inside Higher Ed
Asia Likely to Follow U.S. on Open Access
Move is significant because China, Japan, South Korea and India are among the top 10 research producers.
By Pola Lem
Asian research powerhouses will introduce open-access mandates within the next “two to three” years, experts have predicted, in the wake of last month’s landmark order by the Biden administration. Under the U.S. decision, the published results of federally funded research must be made immediately and freely available to readers, starting in 2025. This follows the introduction of similar rules across Europe and Britain, spearheaded by the Plan S initiative. Home to four of the top 10 research-producing countries—China, Japan, South Korea and India—Asia now appears poised to become the next battleground.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Investing in HBCUs Helps Students and Communities
Liann Herder
Stories about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) can sometimes focus on deficits: the lack of funding based on discrimination, or the resulting infrastructure issues on their campuses. That deficit framework can leave out just how life changing HBCUs can be, not just for the students who attend them but for the communities they reside in. …A recent McKinsey report found that HBCUs are responsible for the graduation of 10% of all Black students in the nation. HBCUs award 17% of all Black bachelor’s degrees, and 24% of all Black science, technology, engineering, and math degrees. In 2017, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) found that HBCUs contribute at least $14.8 billion in economic impact each year.
Inside Higher Ed
Prestige Hiring Across Academe
Prior research demonstrates insular faculty hiring practices within certain disciplines. A new study finds them across fields. What does that mean for knowledge production?
By Colleen Flaherty
Some 80 percent faculty members with Ph.D.s in the U.S. trained at just 20 percent of universities. So found the team behind a new study on faculty hiring and retention patterns at Ph.D.-granting institutions. These researchers warn that academe “is characterized by universally extreme inequality in faculty production.” Researchers also found that the five most common doctoral training universities—the Universities of Michigan; Wisconsin at Madison; and California, Berkeley; plus Harvard and Stanford Universities—account for one in eight U.S.-trained faculty members.
Inside Higher Ed
Fla. System Chancellor Search Mired in Politics
Only eight applicants applied to lead the State University System of Florida, a job that went to Ray Rodrigues, a Florida state senator and ally of Republican governor Ron DeSantis.
By Josh Moody
By all measures, the chancellor position at the State University System of Florida seems like a plum job. It oversees 12 institutions that serve more than 430,000 students, manages a multibillion-dollar budget and comes with a salary of over $400,000. Yet the latest search for a new chancellor of the second-largest public university system in the U.S. yielded only eight applicants. A ninth application, which lacked substantial information and listed President Joe Biden as a reference, was marked “incomplete.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Just 5 Universities Produce One-Eighth of the Nation’s Tenure-Track Professors
By Carolyn Kuimelis
Just five universities have produced one-eighth of the U.S. professoriate, and 80 percent of tenure-track professors at doctoral institutions earned their Ph.D.s from 20 percent of the nation’s universities. That’s according to a striking new study published in Nature, which analyzed the academic employment and doctoral education of more than 295,000 tenure or tenure-track faculty employed between 2011 and 2020 at 368 Ph.D.-granting universities. Researchers found “extreme inequality” in faculty hiring across academic fields.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
NIH Awards $16 Million Grants for Diverse Faculty Recruitment to Northwestern and UC San Diego
By Arrman Kyaw
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Northwestern University and University of California San Diego each a $16 million grant over five years to recruiting and hiring of diverse faculty. The money came from the NIH’s Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program. The organization attributed the disproportionately low numbers of underrepresented faculty and women in the biomedical workforce to insufficient levels of mentoring, guidance in career development, access to professional networks, and integration into the fabric of the institution.
Higher Ed Dive
OPINION
Two Lumina Foundation leaders take up Vivek Murthy’s call to expand counseling services and address loneliness among college students.
By Zainab Okolo and Jamie Merisotis
We’re having a moment in mental health, and we need to use it to challenge, push for sustainable funding, focus on preventative measures and end the stigma of mental illness. A recent conversation with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy gave us a glimpse into what’s at stake. “There’s a crack in the door,” Murthy said recently at the American Council on Education Mental Health in Higher Education Roundtable. “We need to really blow that door open in terms of enabling the kind of conversations to happen about mental health that happen all the time about physical health … We have to find ways to model what it’s like to talk about our mental health, to help people understand that mental health is health. It’s part of our health — no less important than our physical health.” Murthy said good mental health is not a side issue. It’s foundational to the well-being of our children and, well, all of us.