University System News:
The Red & BlackUGA initiative aims to increase number of certified nursing assistants in Georgia
By Khushi Kapadia
In order to combat the shortage of certified nursing assistants in Georgia, the University of Georgia College of Public Health’s Institute for Disaster Management and Institute of Gerontology has launched an initiative to increase the amount of CNAs in the state.
Albany Herald
Construction of ASU nursing simulation facility starts Monday
Staff Reports
Officials with Albany State University announced this week that construction on the university’s Nursing and Health Sciences Simulation Facility will begin Monday. … The ASU Nursing and Health Sciences Simulation Facility will create opportunities to support and enable collaboration with other programs in the region and will include space for simulation labs with low-, medium- and high-fidelity manikins, control rooms, observation spaces, related hospital simulation spaces, work areas and other amenities. The facility will create a pipeline of nursing, health science, and medical graduates to fill the need for professional practitioners in Georgia and will play a key role in improving patient care and outcomes.
WGAUUGA, Tech partnership gets funding from CDC
By Tim Bryant
The University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, in partnership with the state Department of Public Health, have received a five-year, $17 million cooperative agreement from the CDC, funding to establish a Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence. UGA says the center will be designed to strengthen public health response to infectious disease threats and support public health workforce development.
Dalton Daily Citizen
Margaret Venable: Dalton State in the spotlight
This past October was a big month for Dalton State. We hosted some important visitors and showed these guests why Dalton State College is the best undergraduate and public four-year college in Northwest Georgia.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Community leader to speak at Georgia Gwinnett College fall commencement
Antonio Molina says his mission is to leave this world better than he found it. The United States Navy veteran, attorney and community leader is doing just that. Molina will share his insight, experiences and advice with graduating students at Georgia Gwinnett College’s fall 2022 commencement. The event will take place at 10 a.m. on Dec. 1 at Gas South Arena in unincorporated Duluth.
WRGA
Georgia Highlands College has been selected to host a Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. GHC joins 16 other colleges throughout the country joining the network. Currently, 3 private colleges in Georgia have been selected. GHC is the first college chosen in the University System of Georgia. “We’re thrilled to partner with this new cohort of host institutions,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella, “and we look forward to supporting their vital efforts to promote racial equity and healing on their campuses, in their communities, and through the fast-growing network of TRHT Campus Centers around the country.”
Other News:
Albany Herald
Georgia Lottery hits record for first quarter with $389.9M in profits for education
By T.A. Defeo
The Georgia Lottery Corp. reported its most profitable first quarter since its start in 1993. The lottery transferred $389.9 million to the state treasury’s Lottery for Education Account, $25.1 million more than it did in the first quarter of last year. The first quarter ran from July 1 to Sept. 30. “The Georgia Lottery is excited to return this record-breaking amount to Georgia for allocation to education for students and families,” Georgia Lottery President and CEO Gretchen Corbin said in a release.
Statesboro Herald
Bulloch County honors 10th cohort of REACH Georgia scholars
Bulloch County Schools and the Bulloch County Foundation for Public Education hosted a signing ceremony and reception for their 10th cohort of REACH Georgia scholars on Nov. 10. … Since 2013 Bulloch County’s REACH Georgia scholars have had a combined total of $530,000 invested in their post-secondary education. This local amount doubles to a combined total of more than $1,060,000 when the scholars choose to attend one of the state’s partnering colleges or universities.
Higher Education News:
Higher Ed Dive
Number of college applicants sending admissions scores hasn’t rebounded, report says
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
The diminished number of applicants submitting test scores tracks with other data showing most four-year colleges aren’t requiring the SAT or ACT for admissions. A count by anti-assessment group FairTest found more than 1,830 institutions aren’t requiring exam results for fall 2023 admissions. Several dozen colleges have extended test-optional policies through fall 2024, it found, while nearly 1,500 are permanently test-optional or test-free.
Inside Higher Ed
By Colleen Flaherty
A professor who accused Auburn University officials of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on the athletics program intervening in academics prevailed in court last week—in part. An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however.
Inside Higher Ed
Big step toward test optional in law school admissions
By Scott Jaschik
A council of the American Bar Association voted Friday to lift the requirement that law schools use a test in the admissions process. The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted to lift the testing requirement starting in the fall of 2025. Currently the ABA permits the law schools it accredits to use either the Law School Admissions Test or the Graduate Record Examination.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
What a shooting at the U. of Arizona tells us about student privacy and campus safety
By Kate Hidalgo Bellows
The shooting death of a professor that shook the University of Arizona last month has brought renewed scrutiny to a student-privacy law that faculty members say was used as justification to keep them in the dark about violent threats. Thomas Meixner, head of the department of hydrology and atmospheric sciences, was shot and killed while walking from a classroom to his office on October 5. He was 52.