The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hugh A. Carter, Jr. passed away peacefully on July 23, 2023 in Tampa, FL surrounded by his loving family. …He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Glenna Garrett Carter; …Hugh was a member of The Carter Center Board of Councilors, a former member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Foundation.
AllOnGeorgia
University System of Georgia CFO Tracey Cook Receives National SHEEO Leadership Award
University System of Georgia (USG) Chief Fiscal Officer Tracey Cook has been named the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) David L. Wright Memorial Award winner, in recognition of her leadership and support of USG institutions and students. The award is the highest national honor given to an agency staff member by SHEEO, an organization that serves the executives of statewide governing, policy and coordinating boards of postsecondary education and their staffs. SHEEO made the announcement as it unveiled its 2023 Excellence Awards recipients.
The Augusta Chronicle
Dental College of Georgia names an alumna as school’s new dean
Abraham Kenmore
Prof. Nancy Young, DMD, recently was announced as the new dean after a national search. Young has served as the interim dean since the start of the year, following the retirement of former Dean Carol Lefebvre. She has been on the faculty since 2012, including as an associate professor in the Department of General Dentistry and as associate dean for student affairs since 2018. “I am excited to work with Augusta University leadership, our Georgia dental organizations, our alumni and dentists throughout the state of Georgia,” Young noted in a news release. “As an alumna, DCG holds a very special place in my heart. I look forward to building on our longstanding reputation of educating the next generation of dental professionals for the state of Georgia.”
Atlanta Magazine
Georgia’s largest industry faces a mental health crisis
A new outreach program focused on farmers is missing something: farmers. But experts are determined to meet them wherever they are.
By Allison Salerno
…Kyle Haney, rural health manager at the University of Georgia’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS), …—a lanky man with a degree in mechanical engineering, and a 27-year-old in a roomful of men in their 70s—carries the quiet ease of a young adult accustomed to connecting with older people. For more than a year now, he has organized gatherings for men in Union County as part of a pilot program from UGA called Meet at the Shed, focused on farmers’ mental health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, farmers can be up to twice as likely as people in other occupations to die by suicide. The meetings, where men gather to learn wood carving or woodworking, have attracted dozens of older rural men, a cohort also at great risk of dying by suicide. But, so far, no farmers.
Augusta CEO
Garmon Named AVP and CFO for Foundations at Augusta University
Mildred (Micki) Garmon, a certified public accountant with more than 30 years of experience in finance for foundations in higher education and health care, has been named assistant vice president and chief financial officer for Foundations in Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement at Augusta University, effective June 26, 2023. As the AVP and CFO for Foundations, Garmon is responsible for the operational and administrative support activities of the Augusta University Foundation and Augusta University Real Estate Foundation. She will manage daily operations and financial management of the Foundations and provide internal support of the development and philanthropy functions for Augusta University. Before joining Augusta University, Garmon served as comptroller for the Georgia State University Foundation, where she also led the merger team for the Georgia Perimeter College Foundation integration into the Georgia State University Foundation. Her prior experience includes financial executive management and leadership roles with the Kennesaw State University Foundation;
EurekAlert!
Biosurfactants might offer an environmentally friendly solution for tackling oil spills
Can biosurfactants increase microbiological oil degradation in North Sea seawater? An international research team from the universities of Stuttgart und Tübingen, together with the China West Normal University and the University of Georgia, have been exploring this question and the results have revealed the potential for a more effective and environmentally friendly oil spill response.
Savannah Morning News
University of Georgia researcher monitors local waterways for harmful algal blooms
Joseph Schwartzburt
Imagine growing up on the shores of Lake Ontario, New York. Imagine spending your childhood summers in southeast Alaska where your uncle owns and operates a commercial salmon fishing business. Mallory Mintz (MS graduate student, Cohen Lab at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography) doesn’t have to imagine. “I remember lying flat on my stomach on docks in both places, craning over the edge to see the animals underneath… absolutely enchanted by the diversity of critters in Alaska — sea stars and snails and all sorts of crabs.” …Fast forward to the docks off of Skidaway Island at the UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant facilities where Mintz collects water samples twice a day. She is studying phytoplankton, also known as microalgae. She explained that these plant-like organisms are photosynthesizers that typically provide food to a variety of life-forms in the ocean, which then, in turn, supply nutrients for other organisms as part of a balanced ecosystem. Changes in the environment can disrupt that balance and cause Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs).
WTVM
State of Black Boys Educational Summit aims to unify Georgia youth
By Tiffany Maddox
A Georgia organization representing Troup County along with statewide and community partners is coming together to discuss critical teen issues and solutions especially among young black males. The State of Black Boys is an educational summit sponsored by the West Central Georgia Black Chamber of Commerce. The chamber along with Covered Girls, LLC,BEC Electric, and the National Education Foundation 20/20 are coming together for the summit. It’s an opportunity for the community, along with area stakeholders, to talk about academic achievement gaps, mental health challenges, and systemic barriers among youth. …The State of Black Boys Summit is slated for Thursday, July 27, at the University of West Georgia’s Newnan Campus from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
UGA photography exhibit shows Southeast forests in new way
By Olivia Wakim
‘With Rapture and Astonishment’ is a meditation on ‘listening to the land.’
The idea for “With Rapture and Astonishment” began with a question. “What would emerge if people actually use [photography] as a way to deeply listen to the land?” said Susan Patrice, co-founder of Kinship Photography Collective, a photography group that began during the pandemic and evolved into a community of hundreds of photographers connecting with each other from around the world. The answer is now on display in the University of Georgia Circle Gallery. The exhibit features work from 12 photographers around the Southeast as they explore what it means to listen to the land.
Athens Banner-Herald
Why is Georgia football’s Kirby Smart not on a watch list for top coaches?
Marc Weiszer
College football’s preseason watch list rollout, for those who follow such things, will get cranked up next week. There will be 16 different awards sending names of candidates to reporters’ inboxes and posting on social media between July 31-Aug. 14. Some have already trickled out. Any list of top college football coaches in the nation has to include the one who just won the last two national titles, right? Well, not in the case of the Dodd Trophy preseason watch list that came out this month for the award that goes to the nation’s top coach. Twenty-one coaches are on the list. Georgia coach Kirby Smart isn’t on there. What gives? “Since one of the main pillars of The Dodd Trophy focuses on scholarship, coaches named to this year’s preseason watch list were required to have an APR higher than 980,” spokesman Dillon Faulkner said via email .”UGA’s APR was under 980 so that’s why he wasn’t included this go-around.”
WJCL
Former Armstrong State alumni, players and coaches reunite at Crosswinds Gold Club
WJCL’s Rick Snow emceed the event
Preston Harvey, Sports
Former Armstrong Atlanta State University alumni and coaches held the second Armstrong State Baseball Reunion Saturday at Crosswinds Golf Club. The event was held to celebrate the Pirates baseball program at Armstrong which was dominant over numerous decades and to stay connected with each other.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former UGA football star accused of rape sentenced to a year in jail
By Dylan Jackson
Adam Anderson pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor sexual battery charges, ending rape cases involving two separate incidents
Former UGA football star Adam Anderson pleaded guilty on Monday to two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery and was sentenced to a year behind bars in a plea deal that resolves two felony rape charges against him. As part of the agreement, Anderson will turn himself in to the Athens-Clarke County jail on Saturday and is barred from directly or indirectly contacting either of his two accusers, both of whom attended the hearing in an Athens courtroom and gave tearful victim impact statements.
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Higher Ed Dive
AI puts glitch in graduates’ employment plans
Recent grads are worried how AI will affect their career prospects, a new survey found.
Ginger Christ, Reporter
Dive Brief:
The proliferation of new technologies like generative artificial intelligence is making recent graduates uneasy, a new study released Thursday found. A third of the 1,000 people who graduated in the past year said they are second-guessing their career choice, while roughly half reported questioning their workforce preparedness and feeling threatened by AI, according to the 2023 Employability Report by Cengage Group, a global education technology company. Their fears aren’t entirely unfounded. More than half of the 1,000 hiring managers surveyed said some entry-level jobs, teams and skills could be replaced by AI, and more than two-thirds said many workers will need to learn new skills in the next three to five years to keep up with emerging technology. “The workplace has changed rapidly in the last few years, and now we are witnessing a new shift as AI begins to reshape worker productivity, job requirements, hiring habits and even entire industries,” Michael Hansen, Cengage Group CEO, said in a news release.
Higher Ed Dive
Michigan free community college program to extend to 350,000 more residents
The state Legislature allocated $70 million to temporarily lower the age eligibility from 25 to 21 for fiscal year 2024.
Laura Spitalniak, Associate Editor
Dive Brief:
Michigan’s free community college program will temporarily lower its age requirement from 25 to 21, opening eligibility to 350,000 more residents. The Michigan Reconnect program, developed by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2021, offers tuition-free community college for adults with no postsecondary credentials. In her FY24 budget request, Whitmer had called for the lowering of the program’s age eligibility, requesting $140 million in one-time funding to do so. The state’s Democratic-controlled legislature allocated $70 million for the program’s temporary expansion in the $81.7 billion FY2024 budget passed in June.
Inside Higher Ed
Opinion
Will ‘Apprenticeship Degrees’ Come to America?
The emergence of prestigious “degree apprenticeships” in the United Kingdom has implications for the future of higher ed in the U.S., Joe E. Ross writes.
By Joe E. Ross
Among high school seniors, a privileged few get to pick between elite, world-renowned colleges like Columbia, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford, Wellesley and Yale. What if they could pick Goldman Sachs? Some now can. Dozens of famous employers—including investment bank Goldman Sachs and other luminaries like Deloitte, GE, IBM, JPMorgan, Nestlé, UBS and Rolls-Royce—have begun to offer a four-year paid “apprenticeship” that leads to a debt-free bachelor’s degree. What’s the catch? Well, to apply for the Goldman Sachs gig and others like it, you need to be in the United Kingdom. Here in the United States, the apprenticeship-to-degree model is only beginning to emerge. If the idea takes off, it could be a long-term solution to the $1.7 trillion student debt crisis and restore lagging faith in American higher education.
Inside Higher Ed
College ‘Email for Life’ at Risk for Many
Google’s decision to limit free storage for universities has kicked off a scramble to preserve lifetime email or manage the fallout.
By Lauren Coffey
For years at Colgate University in New York, students getting an email address “for life” was a given. Then, in February, an email portent arrived—by email, of course: alumni learned that their lifetime email addresses might be phased out next year. “Even with the lead time, people were caught off guard,” said Carl Klauss, the university’s vice president for advancement. Student shock turned into outrage, sparking a petition to keep the lifetime email system. “This was very surprising news, considering that in years prior Colgate students and graduates recall being told specifically that they would be able to keep their email addresses for life,” the petition said. Many universities have offered an “email for life” option over the last decade, comforting students by providing a directory and archive of materials stored on their email over the years. But institutions are now grappling with how to keep that perk for students because of a Google change to its approach to digital storage.
Higher Ed Dive
Here are 3 admissions practices that favor wealthy students at top-ranked colleges
Rich students are twice as likely to get into prestigious private institutions than lower-income peers with similar test scores, a new study says.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
Dive Brief:
The most prestigious U.S. private colleges prioritize wealthy applicants over less affluent ones — even when the latter have similar test scores and academic qualifications. The higher education world knows about these types of admissions advantages, but a landmark study published Monday quantifies them. Applicants in the top 1%, for instance, are more than twice as likely to gain admission to the Ivy League and similar colleges compared to low- and moderate-income students with equivalent SAT and ACT scores. Researchers said that eliminating admissions policies that favor the wealthy, like legacy preferences, “would increase socioeconomic diversity by a magnitude comparable to the effect of racial preferences on racial diversity.”
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Inside Higher Ed
Seton Hall University President Steps Down
By Josh Moody
Seton Hall University president Joseph Nyre is stepping down. He announced the surprise move in a message to the campus community on Monday morning, according to The Asbury Park Press. The newspaper noted that his departure follows a standoff with the university’s Board of Regents over an incident at the Seton Hall Law School in which employees embezzled nearly $1 million. Nyre reportedly pushed for more oversight of the law school following the scandal, which some regents resisted. The clash over the law school’s autonomy became irreconcilable, leading to Nyre’s resignation, the newspaper reported.
Inside Higher Ed
Berklee College of Music President Out After 2 Years
By Josh Moody
Erica Muhl is out as president of Berklee College of Music after only two years on the job, following an unexplained leave of absence that began last month, The Boston Globe reported. An announcement Monday from Marty Mannion, chairman of Berklee’s Board of Trustees, offered little information about Muhl’s abrupt exit, noting that the board had been “actively engaged in ongoing discussions” with the president and that she would “not be returning to Berklee.” Muhl was the fourth president in Berklee’s 78-year history and the first woman in the job.