Metro Atlanta CEO
Sonny Perdue of the University System of Georgia, Welcoming Students Back to Campus
Chancellor of the University System of Georgia Sonny Perdue talks about welcoming student back to campus for the fall semester and how USG has kept tuition low as possible.
Capitol Beat
Georgia Tech, UGA make list of top-10 public universities
by Dave Williams
Georgia has landed two of its universities among the ranks of the top-10 public universities in the nation. Georgia Tech is third in rankings platform Niche’s rankings of the 10 best public universities, while the University of Georgia placed ninth on the list. The rankings, released last week, are based on an analysis of academics, admissions, financial, and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education. The ranking compares more than 500 public colleges and state universities. The University of Georgia moved up one spot in the rankings, having placed 10th last year.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tech Square’s third phase is about to start. Here’s how it will look.
New renderings give peek into latest phase of Georgia Tech’s transformational Midtown development project
By Zachary Hansen
Two new towers will soon join Georgia Tech’s massive Technology Square project, aiming to provide a new learning environment for thousands of business and engineering students near Midtown’s growing Fortune 500 business center. Georgia Tech provided new renderings of Technology Square’s third phase to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday as the institute’s development team gets close to moving dirt. The visuals highlight two new towers totaling more than 400,000 square feet that will be the new home to Georgia Tech’s Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business and H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
WABE
Georgia lawmakers consider shrinking state’s dual enrollment options for high school students
Ross Williams | Georgia Recorder
About 45,000 Georgia students participated in dual enrollment last year, taking college-level classes for both college and high school credit. If those students were all packed into one district, they would be the eighth-largest district in the state, said Jennifer Phinney, dual enrollment program specialist at the Georgia Department of Education. …For some families of high school juniors and seniors, dual enrollment courses can be a way to save some money on tuition by banking college or technical school credit hours before their baby bird leaves the nest. But that money comes out of the state budget, and Georgia House members are spending the summer considering tweaks to the program. Their next meeting is scheduled for this Friday at the University of Georgia.
WSAV
Georgia Southern faculty receive $1.1M to help firefighters
by: DeAmber Lowe
On Monday, the Georgia Southern University faculty received $1.1 million from FEMA to help firefighters prevent injuries. Bridget Melton, Ed.D., professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology at Georgia Southern University (GS), is part of the team that was awarded $1.1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist with a study aimed to promote wellness in firefighters and first responders. Melton is collaborating with researchers at the University of Kentucky as part of a three-year study that builds on a decade of foundational work by Melton and the Tactical Athlete Initiative team in the Waters College of Health Professions, College of Education, and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health.
The Augusta Press
Augusta University’s First and Second Year Experiences’ director is honored with national award
Autor Liz Wright
Honoring her dedicated work at Augusta University’s First and Second Year Experiences Department, Elizabeth Huggins has recently been awarded the Outstanding First Year Student Advocate Award by the National Resource Center and Penguin Random House’s yearly campaign.
WGAU Radio
UGA: four Foundation Fellows are CCSD graduates
By Kristen Linthicum, UGA Media Relations
Growing up in Athens, many high school students feel like they know everything about the University of Georgia. They have taken annual field trips to sites across campus, attended summer camps, and have seen red and black throughout their lives. But if they decide to attend the University of Georgia, local students are exposed to a new set of opportunities while remaining connected to their hometown. …This year, four of the university’s Foundation Fellows—students who receive the university’s most prestigious academic scholarship—are graduates of the Clarke County School District. Freshman Ella Johnson and sophomore Hadiza Sarr graduated from Cedar Shoals, and Garcia-Pozo along with senior Theron Camp are Clarke Central High School alumni.
WGAU Radio
UGA provides AmeriCorps VISTA associates an unforgettable summer
By Wes Mayer, UGA Media Relations
There’s that old saying that if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. With that in mind, it’s safe to say that University of Georgia students Aliyah Williams and Devin Land didn’t do too much “work” this summer. Williams and Land spent their summer as AmeriCorps summer associates with Campus Kitchen at UGA, collecting food from local grocery stores, gardens and restaurants, planning and cooking meals, and delivering food to Campus Kitchen clients throughout the community. While they certainly stayed busy working 40 hours a week during their nine-week commitment, it was time well spent. …The UGA Office of Service-Learning supports and coordinates UGA’s AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Network of nine partnership organizations that strive to improve health and educational services, reduce food insecurity, or foster economic development.
The LaGrange Daily News
Kaine Law Awards Its Annual Growing Your Community Scholarship to Medical College of Georgia Student
Nikhil Jaganathan was awarded Kaine Law’s 2023 Growing Your Community Scholarship. As a student at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Nikhil will use the $1,500 scholarship to benefit his educational and professional goals. He plans to spend the next four years studying for his Doctor of Medicine degree, followed by residency training. Nikhil aspires to become a cardiologist and open a cardiovascular clinic.
Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology
Faulkner to be Honored by American Heart Association
Jessica Faulkner, PhD, a physiologist whose research is focused on sex differences in cardiovascular disease at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, is the recipient of the Harry Goldblatt Award for New Investigators from the American Heart Association’s 2023 Hypertension Council. She will be honored at the Hypertension Scientific Sessions in Boston this week. This prestigious award is named for the pathologist who established the first animal model of hypertension in 1934 and recognizes an early career independent investigator working in hypertension or cardiovascular research who has significantly contributed to the understanding of the causes of hypertension and related cardiovascular disease.
Metro Atlanta CEO
Health Connect South Celebrates Ten Years With Event Full of Industry Leaders
Rachel Elizondo
Health Connect South, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting collaboration and innovation in healthcare, will host its tenth annual gathering on September 21. A unique gathering of health leaders, Health Connect South will be keynoted by CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen and expects to welcome over 1,000 attendees at The Georgia Aquarium. … This year, Health Connect South will also feature industry leaders from CDC, HHS, FDA, Microsoft, APRA-H, Amazon, IBM, Google, Goldman Sachs, Piedmont Healthcare, United Healthcare and the Deans of the Emory School of Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, Augusta University/Medical College of Georgia, Kennesaw State University, Georgia State University & Georgia Southern University.
Southeast AgNet Radio Network
Georgia Peanuts Reap Benefits from Hurricane Idalia
by Will Jordan
The Georgia Peanut Commission and Georgia Cotton Commission held their joint Cotton-Peanut Field Day in Tifton last week focusing on current research and late-season trends across both crops. To discuss the Georgia peanut crop’s current stage and potential impacts of Hurricane Idalia, Southeast AgNet visited with Scott Monfort, University of Georgia Extension Peanut Agronomist.
Albany Herald
Greenview Farms donate calving simulators to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
From staff reports
The Harris Family of Greenview Farms has donated bovine simulators to the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Beef Unit. One simulator, the compact dystocia simulator, allows students to simulate the birthing of a full-size calf, and the other, the bovine theriogenology model, will allow them to practice artificial insemination.
Phys Org
Researchers a step closer to effective heparanase inhibitor
by Emily Stone, University of Illinois at Chicago
The cellular protein heparanase plays an important role in allowing diseases, including viruses and cancers, to spread within our bodies. For this reason, researchers investigating a wide range of diseases are eager to find an effective heparanase inhibitor. Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago, along with colleagues at the University of Georgia and Utrecht University in the Netherlands, found a molecule effective at inhibiting heparanase activity related to the herpes simplex virus and reduced the spread of the virus when tested on human cells. The new research is published in Angewandte Chemie.
Assembly Magazine
Georgia Tech Develops Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Batteries
By Austin Weber
Aluminum has many advantages, such as light weight, corrosion resistance and electrical conductivity. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are also using the material to improve lithium-ion batteries. Their new system could enable electric vehicles to run longer on a single charge and would be cheaper to mass-produce. A good battery needs two things: high energy density to power devices, and stability, so it can be safely and reliably recharged thousands of times. For the past three decades, lithium-ion batteries have reigned supreme.
The Georgia Virtue
Biomapping and data collection improve food safety in poultry processing
The Georgia Virtue
By Maria M. Lameiras, managing editor with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Poultry, specifically broiler production, is Georgia’s top livestock agricultural commodity, with an average of 31 million pounds of chicken produced every day throughout the state. At the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, experts have helped developed biomapping technology for processing facilities that is making the food supply safer.
Morning AgClips
Be on the lookout for invasive spotted lanternfly
Spotted lanternfly is now present in 14 states throughout the Eastern U.S.
State governments are asking people to be on the lookout for an invasive insect pest called spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula). University of Georgia experts say vigilant prevention strategies, early detection and timely interventions can help keep them from spreading into Georgia and elsewhere. Native to China, India, Vietnam and parts of Eastern Asia, the spotted lanternfly is now present in 14 states throughout the Eastern U.S. The species arrived in Pennsylvania via imported goods shipped from Asia in 2014.
The Augusta Press
Augusta University hosts Tunnel to Towers 5K Run, commemorating 9/11
AUTHOR Skyler Andrews
Saturday morning, at the Augusta University Summerville campus, students, soldiers, firefighters and runners gathered at the Douglas Bernard Amphitheater to commemorate responders at 9/11. The Tunnels to Towers 5K Run, in which volunteers race through a track lined with markers throughout the campus, kicked off at 8 a.m. alongside the amphitheater. The run is a nationwide event, organized by the Stephen Siller Tunnels to Towers Foundation
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College to host preview days Oct. 14 and Nov. 18
From Staff Reports
Georgia Gwinnett College will host two in-person fall Preview Days. The events are from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Oct. 14 and Nov. 18. Prospective students will hear from members of the Grizzly family about programs of study, admissions, financial aid, student housing and more. Participants will be able to tour GGC’s campus and talk to student ambassadors about their experiences at GGC. The event will include food, music and fun giveaways. GGC team members will host selected breakout sessions in Spanish.
WJBF
AU hosting two Masters job fairs this week
by: D.V. Wise
Augusta University is hosting two job fairs for the 2024 Masters Tournament. Students, faculty, staff and alumni can learn about opportunities to work during the tournament in the first full week in April. According to the school’s online newspaper, JAGWire, the first job expo will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12 at the Jaguar Student Activities Center breezeway.
Connect Savannah
By Connect Staff
There’s always something happening in the Hostess City. Stay in the know about upcoming events and the latest information with our News & Notes. Inaugural BIG Expo showcases entrepreneurship and innovation Georgia Southern University’s Business Innovation Group (BIG) in partnership with the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority and The Creative Coast to host the inaugural BIG Expo for Entrepreneurship & Innovation on Sept. 19, 2023 from 5 – 8 p.m. “The Alley” at 58 E. Main Street, Statesboro, GA. The event aims to provide a platform for networking, exchanging ideas, and learning from subject matter experts.
WTOC
Merchandise flying off shelves as Eagles prepare for second game of season at Paulson Stadium
By Hayley Boland
Football season is underway across the Coastal Empire, that includes the return of gameday in Statesboro on the campus of Georgia Southern. Fans are already excited after last week’s shutout win against The Citadel. After a strong start to the football season last weekend, Eagles fans have been flocking to the Southern Exchange Company to get their gear. Southern Exchange owner William Martin said they see thousands of fans each weekend when there’s a home game. The full parking lot Friday afternoon—is a testament to that.
BVM Sports
Georgia Southern QB Davis Brin Named Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week
Georgia Southern quarterback Davis Brin has been awarded the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week for his standout performance against UAB. In the game, Brin completed 38 of 47 passes for 318 yards and two touchdowns, and also rushed for a touchdown. This recognition is the first for Brin since transferring from Tulsa. He has thrown for a total of 562 yards and four touchdowns in two games.
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Inside Higher Ed
AGB Head Resigns Over Plagiarism Flap
By Josh Moody
Henry Stoever, president and CEO of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, has resigned abruptly amid allegations of plagiarism. Stoever allegedly plagiarized part of a column he wrote for Trusteeship magazine, a publication put out by AGB, according to a news release the organization shared. After learning of the allegations last month, AGB conducted an investigation, which “found that the framework and content in the column were used without appropriate attribution,” according to the news release. It went on to note that Stoever “accepted responsibility for this action.” The column in question was subsequently removed from the AGB website.
Higher Ed Dive
What 2U’s new flat fee model could mean for the online degree sector
Higher education experts say appetite could be growing for alternatives to tuition-share agreements, which have been under fire.
Natalie Schwartz, Editor
In its early days, education company 2U built its brand by helping top-ranked colleges launch and maintain online programs in exchange for a share of their tuition revenue. 2U’s cut often hovers around 60%, though it depends on the individual contract. The 15-year-old company still relies on tuition-share deals for its online program management, or OPM, business. But in early August, the company’s CEO, Chip Paucek, told analysts that the company was rolling out a new flat fee pricing model to complement its tuition-share agreements. Under the model, 2U will charge a flat fee for its standard services. Colleges that choose this pricing model would also receive shorter contract terms of about three to five years, Paucek said. 2U contracts typically span five to 10 years.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Report: North Carolina Only State Where Average Graduate Salary Lower Than Living Wage
Arrman Kyaw
North Carolina is the only U.S. state where the average income for graduates falls below each state’s living wage, according to findings from a recent ranking by business advice experts Venture Smarter. The rankings were formulated by comparing average entry-level graduate salaries for each state and state living wages, the latter being the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet basic needs. In North Carolina, the average graduate salary was $33,577 but the living wage was $35,651. This salary amount is also the lowest average graduate salary in the country, 20% lower than the national average entry-level salary, $41,801.
Higher Ed Dive
OPINION
Colleges are ditching the SAT. The high school transcript should be next.
Next generation credentials are a compentency-based alternative to transcripts that allow colleges to make better admissions decisions.
By Laurie Gagnon
Laurie Gagnon is program director of the CompetencyWorks initiative at the Aurora Institute, a national education nonprofit.
In recent years, understanding has grown that traditional ways of measuring student performance aren’t always the most effective. More and more colleges no longer require the SAT as an admission requirement — in fact, more than 1,900 institutions are not requiring the ACT or SAT for fall 2024 admissions, according to a recent count from FairTest. The Carnegie Foundation, the founder of the time-based Carnegie Unit, or credit hour, that is used to measure “seat-time” in K-12 schools and postsecondary institutions, recently announced it is moving away from the measure. Instead, it wants to focus on the development of competency-based assessments, which often involve using authentic performance assessments to demonstrate mastery against clear competencies and criteria. The traditional high school transcript should be next on the burn list.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Anti-DEI and the Future of Higher Education
Monica Williams Shealey, Jacob Easley
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action in college admission decisions was unconstitutional sent shock waves throughout the higher education community. Many institutions seeking to balance the racial composition of their student bodies are left to wonder about the next steps. Seen as a victory for some who view themselves as a new unprotected class, the ruling represents a setback for others who have experienced marginalization based on their race. Yet leading up to the federal ruling, a string of state legislative actions — each seeking to hobble or even decimate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities and programming on university campuses — provides a telling story of a divided national mindset.
Higher Ed Dive
California law clears path for UC Berkeley student housing project beset by legal challenges
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the project to go forward, marking a victory for the public university.
Laura Spitalniak, Associate Editor
Dive Brief:
A University of California, Berkeley student housing project that had been blocked over noise concerns can now go forward under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday. Amid a resident-led lawsuit, a state court ruled in February that the project could not advance, saying the increase in residential noise would be akin to pollution under the California Environmental Quality Act, a broad law that is often cited by development opponents. The new legislation, passed unanimously by the Legislature, specifies that residential noise is not considered a significant environmental effect under CEQA. The legislation also says that public universities won’t have to weigh alternative locations for housing projects, so long as the desired spot is five acres or less or has already been included in the university’s most recent environmental impact report.
Inside Higher Ed
Students Press Biden Administration to Finalize New Title IX Rules
A delay in issuing the regulations likely means that Trump-era rules will stay in place for another academic year.
By Katherine Knott
When he ran for president in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to take bold action to strengthen Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal gender-equity law that prohibits sex discrimination at federally funded colleges and universities and provides guidance for their handling of student reports of sexual misconduct. Biden said he would “immediately” overturn changes to Title IX made by the Trump administration, which narrowed the definition of sexual harassment and added new measures to ensure the due process rights of students accused of misconduct, among other changes. Biden also said his administration would reinstate 2011 guidance that instructed institutions to investigate and adjudicate all student reports of sexual misconduct. But more than two and a half years after Biden took office, advocates for survivors of sexual violence and other students are waiting for the president to keep his promises.
Higher Ed Dive
Top Republicans question Education Department over $39B in loan forgiveness
The cancellation stems from adjustments the Biden administration made on income-driven repayment plans.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
Dive Brief:
Republican leaders of the House and Senate education committees are questioning what legal authority the Biden administration had to cancel more than $39 billion in student loans earlier this year. In July, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would wipe away that loan debt from more than 804,000 borrowers with income-driven repayment plans. Under those plans, loans are forgiven after a certain number of qualifying payments — but the department said that it had not tracked those properly, so it would erase the debts. Rep. Virginia Foxx, of North Carolina, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, wrote to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last week asking what law the Education Department relied on to justify the discharge and how much it will cost. The lawmakers had more than a dozen questions, including how much loan debt the department intended to erase as it “fixes” income-driven plans.
Inside Higher Ed
2 Universities Claim Johns Hopkins Program Is Duplicative
By Sara Weissman
University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, a historically Black university, and the University of Maryland Baltimore are contesting a proposal by Johns Hopkins University to offer a physical therapy doctoral program. Campus leaders at the two institutions claim the proposed program duplicates their programs, The Baltimore Sun reported. The Maryland Higher Education Commission, which reviews academic program proposals, plans to announce in a letter in the coming days whether the Hopkins program can move forward, Cassie Motz, chair of the commission, said at a Thursday hearing.
Inside Higher Ed
Court Temporarily Blocks Pac-12 From Meeting on Its Future
By Doug Lederman
A state court in Washington on Monday granted a temporary restraining order that precludes the Pacific-12 Conference’s board from meeting tomorrow to potentially make decisions about the league’s future. The two universities that have not announced plans to leave the Pac-12, Oregon State and Washington State Universities, filed a legal complaint against the conference and its officials last Friday, saying they, and not the departing members, should decide the conference’s future because they are the “only remaining members with a legitimate interest in [its] survival and success,” said Jayathi Murthy, president of Oregon State.
Diverse Issues In Higher Education
Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks
Jon Edelman
Twenty-two years on, the memories don’t come quite as readily as they once did for Dr. Lynne Brown. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible. Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. She remembers the charred hole in the building, with smoke beginning to come out. She remembers the smell—acrid and rancid. And she remembers the sound that she heard as the towers collapsed—hundreds of people in a collective moan. But today’s undergrads don’t share those memories. This year’s college freshmen were born in 2005. College seniors were born in the fall of 2001. For them, 9/11 is a historical event, little different from Pearl Harbor. The most tangible impact of 9/11 in their lives is that they have to wait in security lines at the airport.
Bleeping Computer
Associated Press warns that AP Stylebook data breach led to phishing attack
By Lawrence Abrams
The Associated Press is warning of a data breach impacting AP Stylebook customers where the attackers used the stolen data to conduct targeted phishing attacks. The AP Stylebook is a commonly used guide on grammar, punctuation, and writing style for journalists, magazines, and newsrooms worldwide. This week, the Associated press warns that an old third-party-managed AP Stylebook site that was no longer in use was hacked between July 16 and July 22, 2023, allowing the data for 224 customers to be stolen.