Albany Herald
Bostelmans to receive Regents Hall of Fame award
From staff reports
Long-time Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College supporters Rick and Sandy Bostelman have been selected to receive the University System of Georgia’s Regents Hall of Fame Distinguished Alumni Award. This award recognizes “distinguished alumni and friends for outstanding achievements in their professional lives, personal integrity and stature and dedicated service to a USG institution,” according to the USG Foundation’s website. “The winner must be a person of such integrity, stature, and proven ability that the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the USG will take pride in and be inspired by their recognition. Nominees need not be graduates of an institution of the USG but must demonstrate a care for and commitment to higher education in Georgia that inspires others.” The couple will be honored at the Board of Regents’ Scholarship Gala on Sept. 8 at the Atlanta History Center.
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New Buildings Planned for UGA’s West Campus
by Lee Shearer
Big changes are in the works for western parts of the UGA campus: three new buildings with a combined budget of just over $170 million. Much of the cost—$93 million—will be privately financed, with rental terms and partners to be set later. The state Board of Regents, the governor-appointed board that oversees public higher education in the state, gave the initial go-ahead for one of the three projects at an Aug. 8 meeting and approved hiring design firms for two others the board had greenlighted in May. A new 565-bed dormitory for first-year students, an 1,100-space parking deck and a building housing an 800-seat dining hall, classrooms and a satellite University Health Center clinic will be going up in the next couple of years, all built atop what is now surface parking. The upcoming UGA construction projects should alleviate, at least temporarily, chronic campus parking and housing shortages as the university grows its student body. They include a $74 million dorm for freshmen near Morris Hall, across Lumpkin Street from North Campus, and a $61 million “West Campus Dining, Learning and Wellness Center” sited on a parking lot at Cloverhurst and Finley streets, near Legion Pool. The third project, approved last week, is a $36 million, 1,100-space addition to the West Campus Parking Deck behind UGA’s Baxter Street dorms.
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UGA-Tifton invests in agriculture research center
UGA’s Tifton location is investing in an agricultural research center.
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City of Fort Valley speaks about student’s economic impact
A recent study from the University System of Georgia finds Fort Valley State University created a $164 million impact to the local economy in 2022.
Author: Simone Soublet
The city of Fort Valley sees progression in its future. According to a recent study from the University System of Georgia, Fort Valley State University made a $164 million impact to the local economy in generating over a thousand jobs. Some local businesses say that business in Fort Valley often starts booming once students are back in school. “As the college grows, our city grows,” Economic Development Director of the City of Fort Valley Gary Lee said. “They are intertwined in all of what we do, so they are a part of it. They are an integral part of how we grow.” There’s no surprise to those who live here. According to Lee, he says that many of the amenities offered by Fort Valley State help aid in the growth and development of the city.
WGAU Radio
UNG summer program works with multilingual students
By Agnes Hina, UNG
The University of North Georgia hosted the Steps-to-College program for more than 100 multilingual high school students, who are also English learners, from the Gainesville City and Banks, Hall and Forsyth county school systems. S2C provides summer enrichment that serves as credit toward graduation. Created in 1999, S2C took place Monday through Thursday at UNG’s Gainesville Campus during the month of June. The program was taught by high school teachers and provided students with half credits for classes like economics and American government. “This gives them an opportunity to be on a college campus, so it doesn’t feel alien to them,” Dr. Lauren Johnson, assistant dean of the College of Education, said. “They get a sense of the attainability of a college degree.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
KSU student’s baseball app among best at Apple coding challenge
By Amanda Cook, Gwinnett Daily Post
The awe was evident in his voice as Kennesaw State University student Yemi Agesin described his meeting with Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook. “He likes baseball like I do,” Agesin said. “Plus, he was wearing shoes with Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 on them, and the Atlanta Braves are his favorite team. Isn’t that cool?” It was baseball that brought Agesin face-to-face with the leader of one of the world’s leading technology companies. The senior computer science major in the College of Computing and Software Engineering created a fun and addicting baseball game app where players hit pitches against an unpredictable AI. The app was among the top nine entries in Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Swift Student Challenge.
Albany Herald
Business world may have to wait on Hill Corley
By Carlton Fletcher
Of his summer intern, Lee County High School graduate and Albany State University senior Hill Corley, Davis Companies founder/CEO Matt Davis says, “I’d hire him in a heartbeat.” There’s one potential hitch to any future plans that might involve hiring on this particular intern, though. “With Hill, I don’t expect he’s going to be available for a while after he gets his Business Management degree,” Davis said. “He’s probably going to spend the next 15 years or so in the Big Leagues.” Corley, who has the all-American good looks and ingrained work ethic that businesses fight over, might have to make the choice between industry and the baseball diamond before his career at Albany State is over. He batted .365 during ASU’s 38-11 2023 season and was named the All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first-team shortstop.
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UNG Gainesville to host annual Starlight Celebration
By Lawson Smith Anchor/Reporter
The University of North Georgia is welcoming UNG students, faculty, staff, and the community to meet the new UNG president Michael Shannon and members of UNG’s national champion softball team at the annual Starlight Celebration and fireworks event. Sponsored by the Northeast Georgia Health System, the Starlight Celebration will be August 26 as an event for UNG’s Gainesville Campus. Gates will open at 6 p.m. at the G.W. Bailey Amphitheater at 3820 Mundy Mill Road in Oakwood, Georgia with fireworks at dark. In a press release, President Shannon expressed his excitement for the event. “I look forward to taking part in this longtime UNG tradition and meeting more of our UNG family,” Shannon said. “We invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to enjoy this special evening on the Gainesville Campus.”
Carriage Trade PR
Healthy Savannah Summer Interns Dive in and Embrace Public Health Opportunities
Healthy Savannah is pleased to announce the conclusion of a two-month internship program that helped foster community involvement in making Savannah a healthier place to live, work and play. Summer interns Alejandra Moreno Arreola and Kellie Arnold gathered community feedback from more than 200 surveys, actively participated in numerous community engagement events and created social media content during the program. Most of the projects the interns worked on are designed to elevate the health and wellness of Black and Hispanic community members through funding from the five-year, $3.4 million grant called Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health administered by Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia. …Arnold, who is in her final year pursuing a bachelor’s degree in public health with an emphasis on global health at Georgia Southern University, brought her passion for nutrition to the forefront of her internship. “I discovered Healthy Savannah through the Georgia Southern career center, which aligned perfectly with my goals,” Arnold said. “My internship work focused on engaging with Healthy Savannah partnerships like Farm Truck 912 and Fresh Express.”
Athens CEO
UGA Archway Partnership Helps Georgia Communities Prepare for Prosperous Futures
Roy Parry
As the University of Georgia strives to carry out its land-grant and sea-grant mission of service to the state, the UGA Archway Partnership plays a crucial role in efforts to improve the economic vitality of communities around Georgia. UGA received national recognition for its public service and outreach work in 2022 by earning the C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award for Archway Partnership’s mission, model, and impact. Archway, a unit of UGA Public Service and Outreach, began as a singular idea to connect a community with university resources. Since 2005, it has evolved to launch hundreds of collaborative initiatives, student experiences, and community-based research projects to address the priorities of communities across our state.
Athens Banner-Herald
‘Keeping something for the future’: Musician keeps Special Collections Libraries in order
Krista Richmond University of Georgia
Deep below the Special Collections Libraries building at the University of Georgia, there are more than 468,000 items stacked neatly on numerous rows of shelves, each one stretching 170 feet long and 35 feet high. Pascal Cureton, assistant vault manager, can help library users find exactly what they need in any of those collections. “Our primary duty is to serve the libraries’ patrons,” he said. “It’s amazing seeing the vast number of items we have that are available to the public. People can come see these items for themselves.” Cureton oversees much of the day-to-day operations of the vault. He makes sure that requests for items are fulfilled in a timely manner. He also ensures that any new items to the vault are properly documented in their system and stored on the shelves so that they can be easily acquired later.
11Alive
Yellow-legged hornet found in Georgia for first time
The yellow-legged hornet, or Asian hornet (Vespa velutina), was discovered by a beekeeper in Savannah.
Author: Jonathan Raymond
A close relative hornet species of the so-called “murder hornet” has been found in Georgia for the first time, the state Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday. The yellow-legged hornet, or Asian hornet (Vespa velutina), was discovered by a beekeeper in Savannah. It is smaller than the Asian giant hornet, or “murder hornet” (Vespa mandarinia) but problematic nonetheless as a non-native species that the Department of Agriculture said could “potentially threaten honey production, native pollinators and our state’s number one industry – agriculture.” The finding of the hornet was reported on Aug. 9 and confirmed by the University of Georgia and the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
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Signe Coombs on Athletic Success at Georgia Southwestern State University
Associate Director of Athletics at Georgia Southwestern State University Signe Coombs talks about student-athletes and their positive impact on the community.
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Inside Higher Ed
Who Should Be Called a ‘Doctor’?
A new Georgia law has renewed debate over the legal use of the title as more people earn doctorates in healthcare fields and challenge the notion that only MDs should call themselves doctor.
By Jessica Blake
Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association, remembers the day well. She was at a meeting of administrators at the hospital where she worked and the physicians there were addressing each other by first name. Mensik Kennedy assumed everyone would be on a first name basis. But when she followed suit, the informal tone of the meeting quickly changed. “I was corrected,” she recalled. “They said, ‘No, no, no, this is Dr. Smith.’” Mensik Kennedy, who has a doctorate in nursing, was indignant. She thought to herself: “Well then, if I’m going to call you, Dr. Smith, you’re going to call me, Dr. Mensik Kennedy.” …The incident reflects a long running debate within the medical establishment over who should be allowed to formally and legally call themselves “doctor”. Associations representing medical doctors, nurses, physician assistants and other health care professionals have lobbied state lawmakers, medical licensing authorities and government regulators to either limit the use or label of “doctor” to those who have M.D.s, or to expand it to anyone in the medical field who has a doctorate. Lawmakers in Georgia recently stepped into the fray by approving a new law that strictly limits nonphysician health care providers from calling, or commercially promoting, themselves as doctors even if they hold a doctoral degree.
Cybersecurity Dive
TIAA hit with class-action lawsuit over MOVEit data breach
The suit claims the teachers’ retirement fund did not properly handle sensitive information compromised in the far-reaching cyberattack.
Anna Merod, Reporter
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A retired teacher filed a class-action lawsuit against TIAA last week over the retirement fund’s handling of clients’ personal data following the cyberattack on the file transfer software platform MOVEit that exposed TIAA data. The data breach affected some 2.3 million TIAA clients, according to the lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in New York. The suit alleges TIAA did not use “reasonable security procedures and practices” to protect clients’ sensitive information. TIAA clients’ names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and genders were compromised during the data breach, according to the lawsuit. TIAA declined to comment on the matter.
Inside Higher Ed
Opinion
Why Aren’t We Asking Questions of AI?
As students and professors grow more skilled at commanding chatbots to produce the outputs they want, Sean Ross Meehan wonders what this will mean for question-based inquiry.
By Sean Ross Meehan
Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, many questions have been raised about the impact of generative artificial intelligence on higher education, particularly its potential to automate the processes of research and writing. Will ChatGPT end the college essay or prompt professors, as John Warner hopes, to revise our pedagogical ends in assigning writing? At Washington College, our Cromwell Center for Teaching and Learning organized a series of discussions this past spring motivated by questions: What is machine learning doing in education? How might we define its use in the classroom? How should we value it in our programs and address it in our policies? True to the heuristic nature of inquiry in the liberal arts and sciences, this series generated robust but unfinished conversations that elicited some initial answers and many more questions. And yet, as we continue to raise important questions about AI while adapting to it, surprisingly few questions have been asked of AI, literally. I have come to notice that the dominant grammatical mood in which AI chatbot conversations are conducted or prompted is the imperative.
Inside Higher Ed
Chaos at New College of Florida
With the start of the semester two weeks away, students are grappling with absent professors, canceled classes and severe housing woes.
By Johanna Alonso
When a committee of the New College of Florida Board of Trustees met in July, a whopping 36 faculty members had already left since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis initiated a conservative restructuring of the institution in January. That number has subsequently grown to more than 40, Amy Reid, the sole faculty member on the board, told Inside Higher Ed. Now, as students prepare for the fall semester, the impact of the faculty exodus is becoming apparent: many classes won’t be offered at New College this term.
Higher Ed Dive
Tennessee State University president to resign in spring 2024
Glenda Glover has been the HBCU’s leader since 2013 and seen it through issues like the state shortchanging the institution on public funding.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
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Glenda Glover, president of Tennessee State University, announced Monday she will step down at the end of the spring 2024 semester after helming the historically Black institution for a decade. In 2013, Glover returned to lead her alma mater, Tennessee’s sole public HBCU. She is the institution’s first woman president and is credited with lifting its fundraising. Her departure comes after a state report alleged Tennessee State’s management didn’t have sound financial practices and suggested that officials there could be replaced.
Cybersecurity Dive
Chamber of Commerce urges SEC to delay cyber rule implementation
The SEC has “chosen speed over accuracy” while ignoring important business community concerns in pushing out the new regulations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says.
Alexei Alexis, Reporter
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to delay by a year the effective date of new cybersecurity rules, saying the regulatory move could otherwise have “severe consequences” for companies. Under the rules, which are set to go into effect on Sept. 5, public companies will need to disclose “material cybersecurity incidents” to the SEC within four days determining an event was, in fact, material. Among other problems, the rules create “vague and unworkable” procedures while also leaving key national security questions unresolved, two of the business lobbying group’s top leaders said in a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler on Monday. “The SEC has chosen speed over accuracy, ignored the role of nation-state actors, and is forcing businesses to choose between disclosure and national security,” wrote Tom Quaadman, senior vice president of the Chamber’s Center for Capital Markets, and Christopher Roberti, the group’s senior vice president of cyber, intel, and supply chain security policy. Many of the chamber’s concerns could have been addressed through “historic deliberative processes used by the SEC for decades — such as roundtables and more extensive comment periods,” the letter said.
Inside Higher Ed
13 Presidents Launch Campus Free Speech Group
By Josh Moody
A group of 13 college presidents announced the formation of a group to “champion free expression” at their institutions as higher education grapples with free speech issues nationwide, from speakers being shouted down to professors losing jobs over their perceived politics. The group—known as the Campus Call for Free Expression—is launching a coordinated effort across their campuses to support free speech, according to a press release from The Institute for Citizens & Scholars and the James L. Knight Foundation. The Institute for Citizens & Scholars, a nonprofit, is the coordinating body while the Knight Foundation is providing $250,000 in funding.
Inside Higher Ed
Nebraska Circuit Court Reverses Award in Title IX Case
By Susan H. Greenberg
In a rare move, a U.S. circuit court of appeals reversed a district court’s ruling awarding attorneys’ fees to a young woman who was sexually assaulted on the campus of Chadron State College in Nebraska. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges (NSCS), who appealed the lower court’s ruling, that Chadron did not act with “deliberate indifference” after the woman, known as “Jane Doe,” reported being sexually assaulted by a fellow student in 2016. On the contrary, the decision points out that the college took many steps to protect Doe, as required by Title IX, including by imposing a no-contact order on the perpetrator, requiring him to attend counseling sessions and placing him on probation until he graduated.
Cybersecurity Dive
How disjoined threat intelligence limits companies — and what to do about it
There’s no shortage of research on attackers, but for many CISOs, turning those insights into action is a difficult endeavor.
Matt Kapko, Reporter
Threat intelligence is more abundant than ever. The information defenders can use to hunt, prepare for and counter potential threats isn’t hard to find, but it is fragmented. On the public side, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other federal agencies regularly release advisories to alert organizations to malicious activity. Privately, and at a cost, threat intelligence firms publish thousands of pages of data and analysis on the most common and unique threats every month. CISOs and security practitioners are left to make sense of it all — crowdsourcing intelligence from research firms and cybersecurity authorities. Turning those disjoined insights into actions that bear results isn’t an easy endeavor.