WGAU Radio
Chancellor Perdue provides fall update for UGA, USG
By Tim Bryant
Sonny Perdue, the former Governor and US Ag Secretary who is now Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, offers his fall update on the operations of the USG.
From the University of Georgia…
Please see the email below from Chancellor Sonny Perdue. It is being shared with all staff across the University System of Georgia.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
UGA trivia team poised to win NBC show ‘Capital One College Bowl’
By Rodney Ho
The trio of metro Atlanta seniors could split $125,000 in award money.
A University of Georgia trivia trio is in a strong position to split $125,000 in winnings on “Capital One College Bowl” that airs Friday on NBC. Aidan Leahy, a 21-year-old junior from Suwanee majoring in history and public administration, is captain of the UGA’s quiz bowl team and has taken part in trivia competitions since the age of 10. Elijah Odunade, a 21-year-old junior from Norcross and political science major, competed in “College Jeopardy” earlier this year, finishing in the quarterfinals. Layla Parsa, a 20-year-old junior from Marietta and engineering major, has not had much experience with college bowl but loves useless facts.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College holds fall recognition ceremony to honor faculty, staff
By Collin Elder Special to the Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College’s annual Fall Recognition ceremony celebrates its faculty and staff every year by honoring those standouts who embody the school’s four pillars of scholarship, leadership, service and creativity. Dr. Amy Farah, associate professor of teacher education, has been named recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for 2021-2022 by GGC’s Annual Awards Committee.
Barnesville Dispatch
Gordon State College Presidential Fellows Program Continues With Its Success
Gordon State College’s Presidential Fellows Program continues with four new students along with returning fellows who have been selected to serve as ambassadors for the president and the college for the 2022 – 2023 academic year.
Savannah CEO
New MPA Executive Track Launches this Spring at Georgia Southern University
Staff Report
Georgia Southern University now offers a fully online executive track for the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, with the first cohort scheduled for spring 2023. “For the past 50 years, the Georgia Southern MPA program has been developing public service leaders – preparing them to manage and lead in government and the nonprofit sector,” said Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies Chair Trenton Davis, Ph.D. “Our program today is built for the next 50 years. The new, fully online executive track offers government, nonprofit, and military personnel a focused, skills-based education that has been designed to accommodate the demanding schedules of working professionals.” The executive track is designed for those with relevant experience in the public (civil or military) sector, nonprofit organizations or closely related positions. Through this new track, concentration courses have been selected to highlight a variety of skills and ideas spanning public and nonprofit management. Courses are delivered in an abbreviated format through Georgia Southern’s online learning platform. Because of this, the program takes 18 months to complete.
The Georgia Virtue
EGRMC Awards 2 Scholarships To College Students
Recipients of scholarships given to two future healthcare leaders were announced recently. The EGRMC Scholarship Program honored two college students this year. …The East Georgia Regional Medical Center Scholarship will pay for tuition, required books, lab fees, state board exam, temporary permit and license up to $5000 per year. In return, after graduation, the scholarship recipient is required to work one year for every $5000 granted at East Georgia Regional Medical Center on a full-time basis. ,,,This year’s recipients are as follows: Mackenzie Glisson, attending the Accelerated Nursing Program at Augusta University. Walt Jeffers, currently an ICU technician at EGRMC and is studying Nursing Assistance at Georgia Southern University.
Athens CEO
UGA and APLU Support Diverse STEM Leadership at Colleges, Universities
The NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance, which engages a growing network of partners to support systemic change in the STEM higher education system, has announced the fourth cohort of 18 fellows in its IAspire Leadership Academy. The academy is designed to support STEM faculty from underrepresented backgrounds to ascend to leadership roles at colleges and universities. Led by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the University of Georgia, the IAspire Leadership Academy provides professional development for academic leaders to succeed in leadership roles by equipping them with executive leadership skills and strategies for influencing institutional transformation.
Tifton CEO
Tracy Brundage of ABAC on Her Role as President of the College
Tracy Brundage is the newly appointed President of ABAC. She talks about her background and the advantage of an education from ABAC.
CNHI
Johnson to direct ABAC Choral Day
Dr. Jefferson Johnson, director of choral activities at the University of Kentucky, will lead area high school students in the annual Choral Day activities Nov. 3 at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The ABAC Choral Program has a 15-year tradition of hosting internationally known conductors, composers, educators and performers as clinicians for an all-day clinic in partnership with local high school choral students and directors, college representatives said in a statement. The high school students will interact with Johnson throughout the day and perform with the ABAC Chamber Singers in a concert, 3 p.m. in ABAC’s Howard Auditorium. …An Atlanta native, Johnson received a bachelor of music degree from the University of Georgia,
Flagpole
UGA Historic Preservationist John Waters Remembered
by Rebecca McCarthy
During a recent memorial service, the stories shared by his former students offered a portrait of University of Georgia professor John C. Waters, who died in August, and his many accomplishments. A landscape architect by training, Waters was a pioneer who co-authored (with former Carl Vinson Institute of Government director Mel Hill) the Georgia Historic Preservation Act, and spent years working for its adoption with former Georgia House Speaker Tom Murphy. The act passed in 1980. 1983 saw the publication of Waters’ still-popular handbook, Maintaining a Sense of Place, a citizen’s guide to community preservation, and found him crisscrossing the state, preaching the virtues of historic preservation and helping communities create local ordinances. Almost 40 years after its publication, the book remains useful for local governments setting up historic preservation commissions and for commission members. The Athens historic preservation ordinance passed in 1986. In what is now called the UGA College of Environment and Design, Waters established the Master’s in Historic Preservation program in 1982 and its certificate program in 1987. That year, he also created a program leading to a law degree and a master’s in historic preservation.
WGAU Radio
Local briefs: health care conference at Georgia Center, ARCO concert at Hodgson Hall
By Tim Bryant
UGA and its College of Public Health are hosting the State of Public Health Conference today in Athens: it is taking place at the University of Georgia’s Georgia Center. There is music this evening in Athens. The ARCO Chamber Orchestra is in concert, 7:30 in the University of Georgia’s Performing Arts Center.
Morning AgClips
CAES partners with Dalan Animal Health to advance world’s first honeybee vaccine
Vaccines are a proven benefit in the world of animal science. People have vaccinated both pets and livestock for decades. Soon beekeepers may be able to protect their colonies through vaccination. The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) and Dalan Animal Health have teamed up to advance the world’s first honeybee vaccine.
Farms.com
Researchers Examine Disease Risk Posed to Pigs by Wild Mammals
Research conducted on behalf of the Swine Health Information Center is looking at the risk to pigs posed by bacteria commonly found in wild mammals in North America. The Swine Health Information Center in partnership with the Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia is examining the spillover risk of bacteria from wild mammal species in North America into the U.S. swine herd. SHIC Executive Director Dr. Paul Sundberg explains the folks at the University of Georgia developed a model by which they could look at the wide variety of bacteria found in wild animals with the assumption they have an opportunity to cross over into domestic pigs.
The Hilltop
By DaQuan Lawrence
Students from various schools across America discussed student debt relief and college affordability among other issues with Vice President Kamala Harris and senior officials from the Biden administration, as the White House hosted a broadcast journalism event in commemoration of World College Radio Day 2022. Vice President Harris called attention to the importance of journalism, free speech and young leaders considering world issues such as climate change, the international rise of autocracies, the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict and threats to marginalized populations via legislation such as the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade and voting disenfranchisement. …Discussing the administration’s unprecedented student debt relief program and her thoughts around the future of education and pathways to employment in the U.S., Harris said, “We should reconsider the term ‘higher education.’ Perhaps we should utilize language founded on our understanding that there’s very few jobs that provide the ability to live with dignity and go on vacation from time to time, that don’t require education after high school.” …Ten schools in total were represented from the states of Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, as well as Washington, D.C. Students and faculty members from the College of New Jersey, Evergreen State College, Hartwick College, Ithaca College, Landmark College, Warner College, William Paterson University, the University of West Georgia,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Professor: Raise higher ed funding or risk greater ‘great resignation’
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Jill Penn is an associate professor of biology at Georgia Gwinnett College and co-president of the United Campus Workers of Georgia, Local 3265. In a guest column, Penn writes about the challenges to higher education in Georgia and the nation due to deep and ongoing budget cuts. Penn holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering chemistry from Oakland University and a doctorate in molecular biology from Princeton University. This essay, edited for length, is reprinted from “Academe: Magazine of the American Association of University Professors,” Fall 2022. The views Penn expresses represent her own and not those of her employer.
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Inside Higher Ed
New Federal Higher Ed Data Released
By Sara Weissman
The National Center for Education Statistics released new data on graduation rates, student outcomes, financial aid and admissions Tuesday, according to a press release from the Institute of Educational Sciences. The findings are from the winter collection of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or IPEDS, including data from the 2020–21 academic year. The data show that about 22 percent of first-time, full-time students who enrolled in two-year institutions in 2017 graduated within two years. However, 40 percent of these first-time, full-time community college students graduated within four years. About 65 percent of full-time, first-time students enrolled in four-year institutions in 2015 graduated within six years at the college where they started.
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Higher Ed Dive
Colleges are becoming less affordable for Pell Grant recipients, report finds
Inside Higher Ed
Machines Can Craft Essays. How Should Writing Be Taught Now?
Artificial intelligence can now produce prose that accomplishes the learning outcomes of a college writing assignment. What does that say about the assignment?
By Susan D’Agostino
“It doesn’t feel like something I’d write, but it also doesn’t not feel like something I’d write,” a North Carolina State University student said about their work integrating prose from an artificial intelligence text-generating program into a final course essay. Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the experiment tested or changed their ideas about writing, AI or humanness. Humans have long relied on writing assistance powered by artificial intelligence to check spelling and grammar, predict text, translate or transcribe. Now, anyone with an internet connection can access an AI tool such as OpenAI or Moonbeam, give it a prompt and receive—in seconds—an essay written in humanlike prose. Instructors who are concerned that students will use these tools to cheat may hold fast to in-class writing assessments or install surveillance tools to try to detect misconduct. But others argue those are fools’ errands. AI-generated prose is original, which prevents plagiarism software from detecting it.
Inside Higher Ed
How Higher Ed Can Help Remedy K-12 Learning Losses
Low national scores have spurred discussion of how K-12 schools can improve student performance. Experts think institutions of higher education can help.
By Johanna Alonso
Results of the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress, which evaluates math and reading skills among fourth and eighth graders, were released Monday, and they were as dismal as many education experts feared. Scores declined sharply in both subjects, and no state showed improvement. It marked the first time in the test’s 53-year history that fourth grade math scores have gone down. Now educators at all levels are talking about ways to reverse the declines. Higher education leaders have already added supports for college students who suffered pandemic-related learning losses; many now aim to expand their efforts to help K-12 students who will eventually arrive on their campuses potentially with even more ground to make up.
Inside Higher Ed
Permanent Fixes for a ‘Broken System’
More than $14 billion in federal student loans have been forgiven under the program in the last year since the administration streamlined the process. The changes will now become permanent.
By Katherine Knott
A year after announcing a temporary overhaul of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, the Biden administration is ready to make several of those changes permanent in an attempt to fix what officials call “a broken system” that shortchanged the country’s public servants. “We’re taking bold steps that will automatically move more hardworking public service workers closer to forgiveness and making permanent changes to reduce the red tape that riddled the PSLF program,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said during a press briefing Tuesday. “The Biden-Harris team is as committed as ever to upholding the promise of PSLF and ensuring borrowers who devote their careers to teaching our children, strengthening our communities and serving our nation get the relief they’ve earned.” Under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, individuals working at a nonprofit or in a government job are supposed to be eligible for debt relief after making payments for 10 years. But that program has not lived up to its promise, multiple investigations have found over the years.