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New Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College president visits Colquitt County
Tracy Brundage, the new president of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, experienced the hospitality of Moultrie and Colquitt County recently with a reception in her honor at the former ABAC on the Square location and a tour of the community. “Colquitt County and Moultrie have always supported ABAC through the years, and I was glad to get some insight on just how ABAC has impacted this area,” Brundage said. “Of the 155 counties in Georgia that send students to ABAC every year, Colquitt County is behind only Tift County. “Colquitt County is also home to more ABAC alumni than any other county besides Tift County. I have done my homework. Moultrie and Colquitt County are integral to the success of ABAC.”
Athens CEO
Partnership Between UGA and Local Middle Schools to be Expanded
Staff Report
The University of Georgia has partnered with the Clarke County School District to expand an after-school academic tutoring and sports mentoring program designed to advance middle school students’ success in the classroom and on the athletic field. Building on the success of a 2022 pilot program conducted with 45 students at Hilsman Middle School, UGA President Jere W. Morehead has provided funding to continue the program at Hilsman and extend it to Clarke Middle School. “I am pleased that the University of Georgia and the Clarke County School District joined together to create this important program,” said Morehead. “This partnership provides our students with the opportunity to engage with youth in the local community while gaining valuable experience to prepare them for future careers in education.” The program is administered through UGA’s Mary Frances Early College of Education, which offers a service-learning class open to all UGA students.
Albany Herald
PHOTOS: Albany State University Benefits and Wellness Fair
Photos by Reginald Christian
On October 4, Albany State University hosted a benefits and wellness fair for faculty and staff.
Times-Georgian
UWG offering free tickets for military, first responders
By Tucker Cole
The University of West Georgia will be offering up to five free football tickets to first responders and military, both current and former, for the Wolves’ important GSC matchup against West Florida this Saturday. According to the release, “The University of West Georgia athletics department is grateful to all those who serve the United States of America in the area of First Responders and Military personnel. To honor these individuals, UWG Athletics is hosting First Responders Day this Saturday as the Wolves take on West Florida in Gulf South Conference play.”
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Dropping out of College: A Crisis We Must Address
Daniel K. Williams (Daniel K. Williams is a professor of history at the University of West Georgia)
As a professor at a regional state university in the semi-rural South, I would like to believe I’m helping the students in my classes reach their career goals and become civic-minded, politically engaged citizens.
Many people I teach are first-generation college students. The majority are eligible for Pell Grants, which means they come from lower-income backgrounds. Our mission is to take these students and give them the training they need to become teachers, nurses, business managers, and other professionals who will give back to their local communities and become contributors to our democracy. I can think of numerous instances when we have succeeded in doing this. But there’s another side to this story we don’t often talk about: The majority of those who enter my university as first-year students will never become teachers, nurses, lawyers, and other professionals, because they will never graduate. Our six-year graduation rate is only forty-two percent. That’s not because we are mismanaged or are a terrible anomaly: The same is true of nearly every second-tier regional public university or college in the United States. In 2021 only sixty-two percent of the students who started a four-year college program six years earlier had earned the bachelor’s degree they were seeking. This means that nationally more than one-third of the people who start college with the intention of earning a four-year degree will probably never finish.
WGAU Radio
Athens doctor one of the first to implant new high-tech pacemaker
By Lindsey Derrick, UGA Today
This March, Dr. Kent Nilsson successfully implanted one of the first wireless, dual chamber pacemakers in the world into a patient. This accomplishment makes Piedmont Hospital the first center in the Southeast and fourth in the U.S. to implant this new device. It was only the 32nd implant in a human in the world. A cardiologist at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital and professor of medicine at the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, Nilsson has become an expert in implanting single chamber, wireless pacemakers. He was called upon again to test the dual chamber version as part of the clinical trial for the Abbott Aveir DR Leadless (wireless) Pacemaker System. With this procedure, the hospital joined the ranks of leading medical centers and universities in the country.
Times-Georgian
Jared Boggus promoted to UWG Sports Information Director
By UWG Athletics
The University of West Georgia has announced the promotion of Jared Boggus to Sports Information Director. Boggus’s main duties include providing media coverage for all 13 NCAA sports along with cheerleading for UWG athletics. In addition, he covers all athletic media relations services along with composing game notes, press releases, game programs, statistics and oversight of Wolves social media accounts.
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. 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.
WSB Radio
Joro spiders are back this fall in Georgia, across the East Coast
By Sabrina Cupit
Their webs are everywhere and it’s hard to bring down the three layered sticky strings. The sticky webs of Joro Spiders are back this fall, and they have scientists researching their nature as predators. Now common in Georgia, scientists predict the arachnids could end up moving throughout the entire East Coast. Dr. Patrick Cain with Georgia Gwinnett College in Georgia says, “They are definitely not native. We are still trying to establish whether they are invasive to the native species.” Joro spiders (Trichonephila clavata) are native to Asia with their range extending from northern India up into Korea. The name comes from the Jorogumo, a mythical creature from Japanese folklore that shapeshifts from a giant spider into a beautiful woman to ensnare young men. The spiders first arrived in Georgia about a decade ago.
WJCL
Police: Georgia Southern student charged with molesting teen he talked to online
A Georgia Southern University student is behind bars in the Bulloch County Jail on charges he molested a runaway he was communicating with on Snapchat.
Ansley Christian, Assignment Manager
A Georgia Southern University student is behind bars in the Bulloch County Jail on charges he molested a runaway he was communicating with on Snapchat. According to a police report obtained by WJCL 22 News, Georgia Southern University Police found the 13-year-old Guyton teen in a dorm in Freedom’s Landing on Lanier Drive on September 26.
University Business
How many universities are truly 100% tobacco free? This big one will be soon
The University of Michigan is taking a bold leap to make its campus healthier by banning vaping.
By Chris Burt
Calling it a “natural progression of our efforts to improve the overall well-being” of its campus, the University of Michigan will be installing a ban on e-cigarettes and other similar vaping devices and products by the middle of November. Although U-M first adopted smoking bans in 1987 and further measures over the next two decades, it has been slower than some institutions in pushing ahead on a full tobacco ban, as other campuses enacting regulations against vaping, including Michigan State University.
…More than 2,170 colleges and universities in the United States are tobacco-free, and several hundred more have indicated they are 100% smoke free, according to data kept by the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation published this summer. A growing number have added electronic nicotine delivery services, or vapes, which also include hookah pens. The warnings have been heeded by more than 2,250 institutions who have signed on and banned them. …While many colleges have eliminated several forms of tobacco, these are the colleges and universities that have banned all tobacco categories (100% tobacco free, ban on all e-devices and products, ban on smoking/vaping marijuana, and ban on hookah use on campus.)
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Inside Higher Ed
Students Say COVID-19 Aid Improved Grades, Relieved Stress
A majority of students who received emergency aid used the money to pay for food, books and housing.
By Katherine Knott
Federal emergency aid disbursed during the COVID-19 pandemic helped college students stay enrolled in classes, provided stress relief and improved academic outcomes, a new report out today says. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators partnered with NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and the consulting firm HCM Strategists to survey students and institutions about the higher education COVID-19 emergency stimulus funds and hear about lessons learned to inform future emergency aid programs at the institutional, state and federal levels. Results of the surveys were released in a new report, “Evaluating Student and Institutional Experiences With HEERF.” “These funds had a positive impact on students,” said Jill Desjean, a senior policy analyst for NASFAA. “We found that they found the grant amounts to be meaningful enough to make a difference.
Inside Higher Ed
GRE Now Accepted at More Than Half of Law Schools
By Scott Jaschik
The Graduate Record Examination is now accepted at 100 law schools, more than half of the 199 American law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. The Educational Testing Service first promoted the GRE for use in law school admissions in 2016, when the University of Arizona did so. The 100 law schools that now accept the GRE (as an alternative to the Law School Admission Test) include Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities.
Inside Higher Ed
A ‘Day of Action’ for Abortion Protections
On Thursday, students at more than 50 universities in 28 states plan to stage protests to push their administrators to protect—or expand—reproductive rights on campus.
By Johanna Alonso
Plan B in vending machines. Free at-home pregnancy tests. Time off to get and recover from abortions. Better financial support for student parents. These are just a handful of the asks, both big and small, that students will make of their colleges and universities on Oct. 6. On what has been dubbed the Day of Action, students across the country plan to hold rallies, protests, strikes and other on-campus demonstrations that will call on university leadership to take steps to protect reproductive and transgender rights. According to the Graduate Student Action Network, which is organizing the protest along with the Young Democratic Socialists of America, students at more than 50 universities in 28 states will hold events Thursday.
Inside Higher Ed
Biden Criticizes Idaho Limits on What Faculty May Say
By Scott Jaschik
President Biden criticized the University of Idaho Tuesday for 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, The Hill reported.