The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Second Georgia college designated as Hispanic Serving Institution
By Vanessa McCray
Georgia Gwinnett College’s growing Hispanic student enrollment has given it a new federal designation that comes with more potential funding. The college announced Monday that it has been designated as the state’s second Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), a U.S. Department of Education distinction earned by schools where at least a quarter of students are Hispanic.
AllOnGeorgia
From August 2021 to May 2022, the Day1Access program helped students save $1,330,991.86 by providing digital course materials at a reduced cost versus traditional textbooks. Since its inception in 2019, the Day1Access program has saved Georgia Southern students more than $2.6 million in required course materials costs. …Through the program, students gain codeless access to their purchased required course material on the first day of class. Charges are placed on the first day of the month of the term. Students have until the drop/add to “opt out” of the low cost materials. This allows all scholarship and financial aid funds to be applied to cover the material cost. Once purchased, the materials are available through Folio via their My.GeorgiaSouthern.edu account. Students may opt to drop out of the program through the typical drop/add period at the beginning of the semester.
Albany Herald
NAMI Albany to march in Albany State’s homecoming parade to raise mental health awareness, funds
By Alan Mauldin
It turns out that a pandemic isn’t just hard on those who fall ill or die and their loved ones. It’s also hard for those dealing with the uncertainty of the lockdowns and the disruptions of normal routines. During the first year of the pandemic, Americans feeling symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress-related conditions rose nearly four-fold. …Part of NAMI’s efforts are to raise awareness and reduce the stigma attached to mental illness. NAMI Albany also will hold its annual walk, and for the second year will hold it in conjunction with the Albany State University football homecoming parade in October.
WGAU Radio
UGA dedicates Driftmier Building
By Tim Bryant
The University of Georgia says it has finished work on the renovation of the Driftmier Engineering Center. UGA says the facelift features new instructional spaces, student commons, a multi-purpose classroom and offices for College of Engineering faculty and staff.
From Heather Skyler, UGA Media Relations…
The University of Georgia held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of a four-year renovation of the Driftmier Engineering Center on Friday, Sept. 23. The renovation finishes as the College of Engineering marks 10 years of existence. Since its establishment in 2012, UGA’s College of Engineering has become one of the fastest-growing public colleges of engineering in the nation and the fourth largest college or school at the university.
The Red & Black
UGA highlights safety improvements
Sarah Evans
The University of Georgia was recently ranked number two in the nation for best student life by Niche, according to a Sept. 22 Archnews email from UGA. The email said the ranking affirms the impact of many new campus safety programs at UGA during its second year of a three-year, $8.5 million investment in campus security, creating several improved or new additions to campus safety. The email highlighted UGA Ride Smart, a service that launched last December and offers discounted rides to students from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. seven days a week. The service is a partnership with Lyft and offers up to four rides a month that start or end anywhere on UGA campus, including one block north of the Arch. It has conducted over 17,000 rides since its launch, the email said. The email also cited increased lighting, cameras and police personnel around campus as positive effects of UGA’s investment.
Athens CEO
New Award Will Fund Several Community Initiatives
Kelly Simmons
Five local projects were selected to receive a total of $32,000 in awards from an endowment established by an Athens native and UGA alumna. The fund, held by the UGA Foundation, ultimately benefits Athens-Clarke County residents as well as university faculty and students focused on service and outreach into the community. … Inspired by the gift and the impact it will have on the local community, President Jere W. Morehead directed a $100,000 contribution to this fund using discretionary funds provided to him by the UGA Athletic Association. … The Bobbi Meeler Sahm Service and Outreach Award inaugural recipients include: Athens Community Council on Aging/UGA Performing Arts Center … Oasis Catolico Santa Rafaela/UGA Office of Service-Learning … Sandy Creek Nature Center and the Clarke County School District/UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant … Athens YMCA and the Clarke County School District Career Academy/UGA Medical Partnership … Athens Food as Real Medicine Prescription Program and Athens FARM Rx/UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences …
WJCL
Hurricane Ian School Closings List: These are the campuses impacted in Coastal Georgia, Lowcountry
Bookmark this page for the latest info on schools in our area closing in anticipation of severe weather associated with Hurricane Ian.
Graham Cawthon, Digital Media Manager
Below is a list of area schools that have canceled or moved classes online in anticipation of Hurricane Ian’s impact on Coastal Georgia and the South Carolina Lowcountry. Saint Leo University has moved all classes from all its campuses, including those in Savannah and Charleston, online from Monday, September 26 to Tuesday, September 27. Classes are canceled from Wednesday, September 28, through Friday, September 30. On Monday, Georgia Southern University sent a notice to students and staff saying there are no plans to alter the school’s operating schedule at this time.
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WTOC11
Timing of Ian could cause damage to agriculture
By Dal Cannady
Ian’s effects in our area could put some of our region’s biggest crops in jeopardy. Almost everyone in South Georgia agriculture has their eyes on Ian and the path it takes and the potential damage it could do this late in the growing season. Roughly a third of Bulloch County cotton sits exposed in the fields after farmers have begun spraying to kill off the leaves before harvest. At the same time, acres and acres of peanuts sit on top of the ground to dry before they’re picked. Locals say the crops can withstand a storm in August, but not this close to harvest. “At this stage now, we don’t need, An inch or two, and we’re fine. But if we start getting a massive amount of water, it’s going to be troublesome for peanuts and cotton,” UGA Extension Service Bill Tyson said.
Southeast AgNet
UGA Specialist: Cotton Defoliation Should Wait This Week
By Clint Thompson
The Georgia Cotton Commission and University of Georgia (UGA) Cotton Team advise growers to be on alert this week with regards to Hurricane Ian’s impending path through South Georgia. Extension cotton agronomist, discusses defoliation and the management tactic producers should take this week.
Athens Banner-Herald
Retired UGA professor honored for Georgia literary contributions
Wayne Ford
University of Georgia Emeritus Professor of English Hugh Ruppersburg will receive the 2022 Stanley W. Lindberg Award at an event Oct. 11 in Athens, the Friends of the Georgia Libraries recently announced. The event will be held at 6 p.m. in the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library on South Hull Street on the University of Georgia campus. Hugh Ruppersburg will be honored with the Stanley W. Lindberg Award on Oct. 11 on the UGA campus. The award is presented to persons who contribute to the literary history of Georgia with previous recipients including Pat Conroy, Marion Montgomery, Tina McElroy Ansa and Terry Kay. Lindberg was editor of The Georgia Review from 1977 until he died in 2000. …Ruppesrburg, who served in the English Department from 1977-2016 and became a dean in the college, authored and edited several books including three anthologies titled “Georgia Voices” that delved into the works of fiction and nonfiction authors and poets.
Ocean News
MTS and SUT Announce Winner of the 2022 Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration
The Marine Technology Society (MTS) and The Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) are proud to announce that the 2022 Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration has been won by the internationally recognized oceanographer Samantha (Mandy) Joye, a Regents’ Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, USA, whose work has revealed unexpected connectivity between elemental cycles, unanticipated feedbacks between geological elemental and microbial dynamics, and fundamental controls on microbial populations and their activity.
The Tifton Gazette
National Archives speaker part of lecture series
Jim McSweeney from the National Archives in Atlanta will speak on “Our National Experience, The National and Federal Archives” 7 p.m., Oct. 11, in the Jess Usher Lecture Series at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The event is sponsored by the Tom M. Cordell Distinguished Lecture Series, college officials said in a statement. Dr. Jeff Newberry, a professor of English and ABAC’s poet-in-residence, opens the series at 7 p.m., Sept. 27, when he speaks on “The Right Kind of Tradition: Seamus Heaney, Irish Identity and the Southern Problem.” Each event is open to the public at no charge with no ticket required. All events in the series will be held in Howard Auditorium on the ABAC campus. Formerly known as the ABAC Lecture Series, this special collection of presenters has been renamed in memory of Dr. Jess Usher, a former ABAC faculty member and lecturer in the series, who passed away in 2021.
Savannah Business Journal
Sept. 27 – Georgia Southern celebrates ‘40 Under 40’ Class of 2022
Savannah Business Journal Staff Report
The Georgia Southern University Alumni Association “40 Under 40” Class of 2022 was recognized at a ceremony on Sept. 23 at the Eugene M. Bishop Alumni Center in Statesboro. The annual honor recognizes young alumni who have made significant strides in business, leadership, community, educational or philanthropic endeavors.
Science Daily
Correcting peers is key in small-group learning
Telling fellow students they are wrong can help everyone in the group learn
Collaborative group work is increasingly prioritized across higher education, particularly in the life sciences and STEM-related fields. But how students communicate within these smaller groups is key to their success. New research from the University of Georgia suggests that students who understand what they do and do not know, and who are willing to ask for clarification and correct misinformation in the group, are more successful in small-group problem-solving. The study, “Oh, that makes sense”: Social Metacognition in Small-Group Problem Solving, was published in the current issue of Life Science Education.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Update: Collins, Stansbury dismissed at Georgia Tech, Brent Key interim coach
By Ken Sugiura
Athletic director Todd Stansbury and football coach Geoff Collins have both been dismissed from their positions at Georgia Tech, effective immediately. “I am grateful to Coach Collins for his hard work and commitment to our student athletes,” Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera said in a release. “Unfortunately, the results of our football program have fallen short of what our loyal community, fans and athletes expect and deserve. We are committed to rebuilding the program and a coaching change is a necessary first step in that process.” Cabrera has installed senior Frank Neville, the institute’s senior vice president for strategic initiatives and chief of staff, as the interim athletic director. Brent Key, a former Georgia Tech player and assistant coach under Collins, has been named the interim head coach.
SwimSwam
GEORGIA SOUTHERN HIRES FORMER UNC ASSISTANT ALLYSON SWEENEY AS HEAD COACH
By Riley Overend
The NCAA Division I head coaching carousel has almost reached its conclusion with season-opening meets approaching fast on the schedule. Georgia Southern named Allyson Sweeney as its next head coach on Monday, replacing Amanda Caldwell a few weeks after she left to take over Tulane’s women-only program. That job opened up last month because former LSU head coach Leah Stancil resigned a day before classes began to become an assistant coach at nearby LSU. The only Division I head coaching position still vacant is at Saint Louis University, where Jim Halliburton resigned a week after classes started in late August to join the staff at cross-town WashU in St. Louis.
Agfax
Georgia Pecans: What to Know About Anthracnose
By Anrew Sawyer, University of Georgia Extension Pecan Specialist
Anthracnose, bacterial leaf scorch, nutrient imbalance and mites are common causes of leaf scorch. Starting this July, we started seeing leaf scorch in our mature trees. When we see scorch, the UGA Plant Disease Clinic can confirm if a pathogen is the cause. Bacterial leaf scorch is generally found a one or a few varieties. Speaking with pathologist Jason Brock, the few samples tested for bacterial leaf scorch this season were negative. Insects were present early this year with dry conditions, and some scorch was attributed to mites. Since late July, however, the lab has confirmed anthracnose to be the scorch and subsequent leaf shed in many orchards. …Due to the widespread anthracnose across the state, in other crops and in multiple varieties of pecan, there is likely a common environmental and/or physiological stress causing the infection to develop into scorch symptoms in 2022. The May and June heat may be an environmental stress. The large crop we currently have may be a physiological stress.
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Inside Higher Ed
The Public’s Growing Doubts About College ‘Value’
Americans aren’t questioning the importance of higher education, but they’re concerned it is unaffordable and unavailable for too many people. Experts dig into the data.
By Doug Lederman
After decades of almost unquestioned public support as some of America’s most valued institutions, colleges and universities are facing growing questions—not about whether higher education remains important but whether it’s available, affordable and valuable enough. An episode of Inside Higher Ed’s The Key podcast recently explored the public’s evolving attitudes toward higher education, part of a three-part series on the concept of “value” in higher education, made possible by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The conversation included Sophie Nguyen, senior policy analyst with New America’s education program, which publishes “Varying Degrees” and numerous other surveys about higher education; David Schleifer, vice president and director of research at Public Agenda, a national research organization; and Natasha Quadlin, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-author of Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public (Russell Sage Foundation). An edited transcript of the conversation follows.
Inside Higher Ed
Opinion
A Suggestion for Every College Presidential Search Committee
Ask about defending academic freedom.
By Matt Reed
Between Florida asserting that what college faculty say in class is “government speech” and Idaho telling college faculty that they “must remain neutral” on certain issues, an old challenge has re-emerged for college leaders. Every search committee for a college president should ask candidates this question, and then probe for understanding: Are you willing to defend academic freedom or not? I’ve been a candidate for several community college presidencies and have never been asked that. I’ve been asked if I play a musical instrument, whether I would impose a dress code and whether or not my wife is “weird.”* But I have never been asked about academic freedom. Not once. The threats are serious. Leadership needs to be serious, too.
Inside Higher Ed
University Tells Professors to Stay ‘Neutral’ on Abortion
Citing new and existing state laws, University of Idaho tells employees what they can (and mostly can’t) say and do regarding abortion. The institution says it may also cease to provide birth control.
By Colleen Flaherty
The University of Idaho is telling faculty members and other employees to discuss abortion or contraception only when relevant and in “neutral” terms, or they risk dismissal or even jail time. In addition to these rules governing speech, the university says it cannot administer emergency contraception except in cases of rape, and that standard birth control may not be administered at all. The new guidance came late Friday in an email from the university’s general counsel, who cited new and existing state laws restricting abortion. During all times that university employees are performing their jobs, state laws prohibit them from “promoting” abortion in any way, including referring or counseling anyone in favor of an abortion, the email says. Those convicted of violating new state laws against abortion face penalties including mandatory loss of state employment, bars on future state employment, prison time and fines, the university warned.
Inside Higher Ed
Title IX Mandatory Reporting Expansion Under Fire
The Education Department wants to change who on college campuses must tell the Title IX coordinator about reports of sexual misconduct. Advocates say the change is ill-advised.
By Katherine Knott
Professors, researchers and sexual assault prevention advocates want the U.S. Department of Education to rethink plans to expand mandatory reporting requirements to more college employees as part of its overhaul of the Title IX law. The department proposed requiring most campus employees to report cases of potential sex discrimination to Title IX in the regulations released earlier this summer. The public comment period for the new rules closed Sept. 12. The department received more than 240,000 comments, which it is reviewing before publishing a final set of regulations on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding.
Inside Higher Ed
A New Path to Be Admitted to U of California
By Scott Jaschik
The University of California is going to create a new path for admission to the system, the Los Angeles Times reported. The path is for students who met the 3.0 grade point average in high school but didn’t complete the required 15 college preparatory courses. The university said the program will be open to about 3,700 students, half of whom are low-income, underrepresented students of color or the first in their families to attend college.
Inside Higher Ed
CBO: Biden Student Debt Relief Plan to Cost $420 Billion
By Katherine Knott
The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s nonpartisan research arm, estimates that President Biden’s plan to forgive some federal student loans and suspend payments through the end of the year will cost the government about $420 billion. The CBO released its estimate, which it described as “highly uncertain” because of unpredictability around borrower behavior, in a letter to congressional leaders Monday. It said forgiving repayments would cost the government $400 billion over a 30-year period, while the payment suspension would add another $20 billion. Biden said in late August that he would cancel up to $10,000 in loans for Americans earning less than $125,000 annually. Pell Grant recipients would get an additional $10,000 in debt relief under the plan. The CBO estimate is the first that the agency has released since Biden’s announcement. The office is still analyzing the plan and will release additional estimates as they are ready, the letter said.
Inside Higher Ed
Penn State Seeks Major Appropriations Boost
University is seeking $115 million more in state appropriations, arguing it is comparatively underfunded in the state. The request comes amid a difficult financial and political climate.
By Josh Moody
State support for higher education has been on the decline in Pennsylvania for years. But Pennsylvania State University leaders are now asking lawmakers to reverse course and significantly invest in higher education in next year’s state budget. The Penn State Board of Trustees approved a request Friday that will ask the state to increase appropriations to PSU’s general fund next year by roughly 48 percent, or $115.2 million. While the 47.8 percent increase may seem like a striking number, Penn State officials say an internal analysis shows that PSU has long been underfunded compared to other state universities. Officials say the increase is needed to reach the funding level of the next-lowest-funded university.