Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus State’s interim president has a new role in the University System of Georgia
By Mark Rice
The next step in the career of Columbus State University’s interim president has been decided. John Fuchko III, who has led CSU since Chris Markwood retired last summer, will be interim president of Dalton State College, effective June 1. University System of Georgia chancellor Sonny Perdue announced the move Wednesday. Dalton State president Margaret Venable is retiring May 31.
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Savannah Tribune
Cynthia Robinson Alexander Named Interim President At Savannah State University
University System of Georgia (USG) Chancellor Sonny Perdue today named Cynthia Robinson Alexander as interim president of Savannah State University, effective July 1, 2023. She will serve upon the departure of Savannah State President Kimberly Ballard Washington, who has announced she will step down from the post. Alexander, who holds a doctorate in law, currently serves as USG’s associate vice chancellor for finance. She leads the Board of Regents’ management of all alternative financing transactions including the system’s $2.7 billion public-private venture portfolio. …Alexander has over 30 years of leadership experience in business and higher education, having successfully worked on highly complex financial and business transactions and led cross-disciplinary teams in implementing creative solutions to address challenges.
Americus Times-Recorder
GSW baseball team clinches Peach Belt Conference regular season championship
By Ken Gustafson
After taking the first two games in their season finale serious against Flagler College by scores of 4-0 and 9-6, the Georgia Southwestern State University baseball team (GSW) found themselves one win away from clinching the program’s first ever Peach Belt Conference regular season championship. Thanks to the timely hitting of Miles Hartsfield and Cory Lee, along with solid pitching from Colby Gordon, the Canes were able to realize their dream, as they defeated the Saints 8-6 on Sunday and swept the three game series en route to a Peach Belt Conference regular season title.
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WJCL
“This will make things tighter”: Savannah State students reacts to nearly $600,000 budget cut
$66 Million dollars to be cut from schools in the University System of Georgia
Kyron Neveaux, Reporter
The 2024 fiscal year budget, which cuts the University System of Georgia Institutions budget by $66 Million, has been passed by the General Assembly. The budget decrease impacts 20 universities in Georgia, including Georgia Southern University, University of Georgia, and several Historically Black Colleges and Universities, such as Savannah State University. After the news was released, students at Savannah State University took matters into their own hands by hosting a campus meeting on how they could support their university.
13WMAZ
‘It’s about paying it forward’: Georgia College donates abandoned dorm items to charities
The college’s Office of Sustainability says they collect around 300 items each year ranging from clothes to TVs to give a new home to items that students can’t keep
Author: Jessica Cha
It’s that time of year where college students move out of the dorms. However, many find that they have too much to bring home. Folks at Georgia College are dealing with those leftovers and turning one man’s trash into another man’s treasure. Environmental Science major Molly Robbins is doing some heavy lifting at the dorms. She’s picking up a futon someone’s left behind. “We ask students to put out all of their furniture, their nonperishable foods, and any clothing,” she says. It’s all for the “Dodge the Dump” event the college’s Office of Sustainability has been doing since 2017. They say they collect an average of 300 items a year.
Columbus CEO
Columbus State’s Annual Scholastic Honors Convocation Celebrates Student, Faculty Excellence
Staff Report
Held on Friday, April 28, Columbus State University’s annual Scholastic Honors Convocation recognizes students and faculty for their academic and service accomplishments at the program, departmental and university levels. In all, the university presented more than 120 awards this year—including its top honors, which for students include the Faculty Cup Award, Academic Recognition Award; and Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Student of the Year Award. They also include the faculty Educator of the Year Award.
The Tifton Gazette
ABAC schedules orientation days
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College has announced eight orientation days scheduled for this summer. Scheduled days are June 5, June 12, June 26, July 10, July 17, July 27 (Bainbridge), July 31 and Aug. 9. Welcome Weekend, which is part of orientation, will kick off Friday, Aug. 11 and continue through Sunday, Aug. 13, college officials said in a statement. The weekend will include a kick-off event, the annual convocation ceremony, an introduction to life in Tifton with a Second Saturday Celebration and a “Stallion Training” day. Trent Hester, ABAC leadership and engagement coordinator, said 21 orientation leaders have been selected from the student body. The group is tasked with the planning, development, and execution of the orientation, convocation and Welcome Weekend programming.
The Brunswick News
Hope 1312 Collective, CCGA partner to provide trauma-informed training
By Lauren McDonald
A group of future educators will graduate this weekend prepared not only to expand the minds of future generations but also to create trauma-responsive spaces in their classrooms that will positively impact students. A new partnership this semester between College of Coastal Georgia and Hope 1312 Collective, a nonprofit that serves children in the welfare system through community partnerships, gave senior education majors a chance to be trained in TBRI practices, or Trust-Based Relational Intervention.
Savannah Business Journal
The 2023 Prosperity Through Trade Luncheon of WTC Savannah Features Andrew Busch
By Lou Phelps, SBJ Staff
World Trade Center Savannah held its fourth annual Prosperity Through Trade Luncheon today at the Savannah Convention Center featuring former 1st Chief Market Intelligence Officer for the U.S. government and economic futurist Andrew Busch. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged Busch with improving and enhancing the government’s understanding of the markets and the economy. His job was to take all the news, information and data on the economy and markets and filter it into condensed, easily understood research and communicate it to the government and public, according to the WTC. Platinum Sponsor for the event was the Georgia Ports Authority, along with Global Sponsor AT&T, and Presenting Sponsor Georgia Southern University.
WGAU Radio
UGA plants seeds for community engagement
By Kensie Poor, UGA Today
The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel installed a Georgia Pollinator Plant of the Year garden to help raise awareness about declining pollinating insect populations. The Georgia Center worked with the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia to install a garden that featured Pollinator Plant of the Year selections. Since the Georgia Center functions as a primary hub for the university, the garden could be seen by thousands of visitors, in addition to students and Athens residents. The statewide Georgia Pollinator Plant of the Year program was started by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia to annually select four plants that perform exceptionally well in gardens and provide resources for pollinators.
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Higher Ed Dive
Almost 300 colleges still have open seats for fall 2023
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
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Nearly 300 U.S. and foreign colleges have told the National Association for College Admission Counseling that they have open seats for fall 2023. The figure comes from the admission organization’s annual Colleges Openings Update, published Tuesday, which also documents the availability of housing and financial aid for first-year and transfer students. The list is a way for NACAC to flag for students and families which institutions are accepting applications past May 1, the historic deadline by which accepted students make their picks. NACAC plans to keep the database updated and on its website through the end of July.
Inside Higher Ed
With the public increasingly skeptical of the value of higher education, new data show STEM majors still get the most lucrative jobs. Critics say future earnings aren’t all students care about.
By Liam Knox
New data from the Department of Education’s College Scorecard show that tech and STEM majors still vastly outpace liberal arts and humanities majors in terms of future earnings. The data, released April 27, compare the relative earnings of graduates of more than 36,000 different programs across institutional sectors, from community colleges to for-profit institutions. Computer science programs made up 16 of the top 20 slots on the list, and all but five of the top 100 programs were in STEM fields; the others were in finance or economics, with the exception of Carnegie Mellon University’s Design and Applied Arts program, which came in at 96. Computer science programs at elite universities like Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology earned the top five spots for four-year degrees, with graduates earning average salaries of over $240,000 four years after receiving their diplomas.
Inside Higher Ed
Cost Is the Biggest Barrier to Enrollment: Survey
By Susan H. Greenberg
Despite declining enrollment at many U.S. higher ed institutions, nearly three-fourths of all adults say a college degree is as important as (35 percent) or more important (39 percent) than it was 20 years ago, according to a new report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation. Twenty-six percent said they thought it was less important. “The State of Higher Education 2023” is the third consecutive study by the two organizations, which surveyed U.S. adults between 18 and 59. Respondents included about 6,000 students currently enrolled in a postsecondary education program, 3,000 adults who started but stopped out, and another 3,000 who have never enrolled in higher education. Among students currently attending a postsecondary program, 41 percent said it was “difficult” or “very difficult” to remain enrolled, similar to the 39 percent who answered that way in 2021.
Higher Ed Dive
How colleges are trying to prevent the next mass shooting
Institutions like Michigan State University are trying to better secure their campus and train students. But there’s no one-size-fits-all fix, experts say.
By Danielle McLean
Since a mass shooting at Michigan State University killed three students and injured five others earlier this year, the university has been working to protect students, faculty and staff from ever enduring another attack. In the weeks after the Feb. 13 shooting, the university held a series of campus safety town halls with members of the community about improvements they wanted to see, said Dana Whyte, a spokesperson for the Michigan State Department of Police and Public Safety. Following those sessions, the university’s president, chief of police and vice president of public safety announced four campus safety changes in early March, Whyte said. They included beefing up security and offering active violence incident training to all students, she said.
Inside Higher Ed
Academic Success Tip: Rebrand Office Hours
Professors promote office hours in fresh ways to clarify the purpose for students and create a more supportive environment that encourages asking questions.
By Ashley Mowreader
For a student, making time to talk with a professor can feel intimidating. In an April 2022 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan, 28 percent of survey respondents said they never visited with professors during office hours, and among those who did, 55 percent only did so once or twice a term. To make themselves more accessible and welcoming to students, faculty members are rethinking their office hours in name and function to put the focus on students.