The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Finalist picked to be next Dalton State College president
By Vanessa McCray
John Fuchko III is the sole finalist in the running to be the next leader of Dalton State College. The Georgia Board of Regents on Wednesday voted to make Fuchko their top pick for the job, pending a final vote at an upcoming meeting. Fuchko has been working as the interim president at Dalton State since June, after the school’s longtime president, Margaret Venable, retired. …The board formed a committee earlier this year to conduct a national search for the Dalton State presidency.
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Columbus CEO
Investiture Ceremony to Install Dr. Stuart Rayfield as Columbus State’s Sixth President
Columbus State University will officially install Dr. Stuart Rayfield as its sixth president in an investiture ceremony on Friday, Oct. 20. The ceremony, open to the public, will begin at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time in the Frank G. Lumpkin Jr. Center on the university’s Main Campus. The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents named Rayfield as the university’s sixth president on March 9. She began her tenure on June 1, 2023 — succeeding Dr. John M. Fuchko III who served as the university’s interim president for a 12-month period. “[Dr. Rayfield] lives in the community, has taught on campus and has an immediate grasp of how Columbus State helps [the University System of Georgia] be the leading provider of a highly skilled workforce in Georgia,” USG Chancellor Sonny Perdue said at the time of the announcement.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nathan Deal’s next chapter: Building on his late wife’s legacy of literacy
Former governor to become a children’s book author
By Jennifer Brett
Former Gov. Nathan Deal took the stage in a crowded ballroom just a couple of miles from the mansion he called home for eight years. “We have been to events all over the state, and we were the last people to leave,” he mused, noting that his wife, Sandra, was always one to insist on helping the clean-up crew. “She would have loved to be here tonight.” Deal then spoke in a halting voice in accepting honors from the Wesley Woods Foundation, which recognized his criminal justice reform work and his late wife’s tireless efforts promoting childhood literacy at Heroes, Saints & Legends, the annual fundraiser that benefits Wesley Woods’ senior housing, care and chaplain programs. The event at Flourish in Buckhead was held Sept. 21, a little more than a year after Sandra Deal died. …She attended Georgia College and State University at Milledgeville, earning a bachelor’s in elementary education in 1963 and a master’s in elementary education in 1968. Deal was governor from 2011-2019, during which time Sandra Deal, who had been a language arts teacher, championed early learning. …After leaving office, Nathan Deal transitioned to the classroom, an environment where his wife always thrived. He taught classes including one called “Politics in the Peach State” at the University of North Georgia, where a room is named for him, and contributed to an edition of the textbook “The Basics of American Government.”
WGXA
Fort Valley State University Awarded NSF Grant to Support STEM Education
by Brandon Mcgouirk | WGXA News
Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. has announced that Fort Valley State University has been awarded nearly $400,000 from the National Science Foundation to encourage and support underrepresented students to STEM-related degrees and careers. The grant is meant to improve FVSU’s efforts to reach out to underrepresented students, including minorities and veterans. These students will benefit from an enhanced STEM curriculum, such as workshops, research experience, and scientific exchange opportunities with fellow STEM students and scientists at research conferences. The students will also receive career guidance to connect their education with new and high-demand STEM jobs and graduate studies in the field.
Grice Connect
GS grad student wins first place at environmental research conference
Willis, from Brunswick, was awarded a $1,500 cash prize and a three-night stay at Jekyll Island Resort.
A Georgia Southern engineering graduate student from Brunswick, Georgia, won first place in the master’s degree students’ category at the recent Georgia Environmental Conference (GEC). James Brad Willis, a mechanical engineering master’s degree student in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing, was rated the top out of 42 submissions form universities across Georgia for his research presentation titled, “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation Using Fischer-Tropsch Isoparaffinic Kerosene Alternative Fuel in a CRDI Research Engine; A Practical Solution to Cleaner Powertrain Technology for Agricultural and Coastal Fisheries.”
Middle Georgia CEO
FVSU Students Join the White House HBCU Scholars Initiative
Two Fort Valley State University seniors have been named to the 2023 cohort of the White House HBCU Scholars Initiative. Elisha Cloy, a senior Family and Consumer Science major from Bethesda, Maryland, and Jamyra Hayes, a senior Business Administration and Management major from Hamilton, Georgia, are two of 102 students from HBCUs nationwide named to this year’s cohort. Their selections mark the second consecutive year that at least two Fort Valley State University students have been chosen as White House HBCU Scholars.
Americus Times Recorder
GSW raises over $110,000 on Day of Giving from all 50 states
By Chelsea Collins
Georgia Southwestern State University raised a total of $110,669 during its fifth annual Day of Giving on Thursday, September 21. A total of 448 gifts from 438 donors rolled in from 50 states and three countries for student scholarships and more. In 2023, GSW saw a 50 percent increase in donors, 40 percent increase in total gifts, and a 17 percent increase in dollars raised. “This marks the fifth year Georgia Southwestern has held its Day of Giving,” said Stephen Snyder, executive director of the GSW Foundation and assistant vice president for Advancement. “The response we receive from the GSW family on campus, in the community and across the country gets better every year. Truly, I am grateful and amazed at the outpouring of support. This year, we raised more money than ever from more donors than ever and all 50 states (and a few countries). …“I love seeing the energy and enthusiasm surrounding Day of Giving each year,” said GSW President Neal Weaver, Ph.D. “Thanks to the support and generosity from the Hurricane family across the nation, we had our most successful year yet! I am proud to watch the Hurricane family come together every year to make a difference in the lives of students and the future of Georgia Southwestern.”
The San Pedro Sun
Women Empowerment: All-female crew lands commercial airplane in Belize
For the first time, a Delta Airlines commercial jet touched down at the Philip Goldson International Airport (PGIA), operated by an all-female crew. The captain in charge of the flight was African American Anya Kearns, 31, who made history by being the first black female pilot to land an international commercial aircraft in Belize. The flight took place on September 16th, one of the busiest days at the PGIA. Kearns’ mother, Angela Kearns, had been visiting San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, before this flight and was more than proud to share that her daughter was landing a commercial jet in Belize. Angela was also part of the historic flight as she flew back home to Georgia, USA, on the same flight captained by her daughter. …This proud young female and inspiring captain maintains membership and volunteers with several other organizations, such as Sisters of the Skies, Women in Aviation, and the Middle Georgia State University Alumni Association.
Gwinnett Daily Post
PHOTOS: Georgia Gwinnett College celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with food, music and art
The richness of the Hispanic/Latino culture was on display at Georgia Gwinnett College’s Hispanic Heritage Festival, held recently on GGC’s campus. Sponsored by the college’s Hispanic Achievers Committed to Excellence in Results living-learning community and the Organization of Latin American Students student group, the event kicked of a long slate of campus activities to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Nancy Ciudad-Simmons said the event was designed to bring awareness, engagement and appreciation of the Hispanic/Latino culture. Ciudad-Simmons, who is a senior student success advisor at GGC said countries such as México, Costa Rica and Venezuela were among the Spanish-speaking countries represented at the event.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As student loan payments resume, Georgia borrowers reach for wallets
Borrowers say they’re noticing confusing information about payments
By Vanessa McCray
… More than 28 million federal student loan borrowers are scheduled to restart payments or begin making them for the first time in October. Many low-to-middle-income borrowers had clung to the hope that President Joe Biden’s forgiveness plan would wipe out all or much of their debt, until the U.S. Supreme Court in late June struck down that $400 billion relief proposal. …The payment restart will add to economic headwinds such as inflation, rising housing costs and other pocketbook pinchers like the cost to commute as remote workers report back to offices, said Phil Vinson, an assistant professor of economics at Georgia Gwinnett College. Vinson thinks the return of monthly student loan payments might soften the housing market a bit if people can’t qualify for mortgages. And spending on some goods and services could drop modestly. For student loan borrowers, especially those who didn’t build up their savings the last few years, “it’s not a small thing at all,” he said.
Daily Mail
Forget beauty sleep, scientists say ‘consistently’ getting a good night’s rest can SLOW ageing
Emily Craig Senior Health Reporter for Mailonline
You will already know the importance of getting beauty sleep. But scientists now say getting a good night’s rest won’t just make you prettier — it has anti-ageing effects, too. Researchers in the US, who tracked the sleeping habits of more than 6,000 people, claim those who stuck to a consistent sleeping pattern were biologically younger.…However, it is unclear how sleep affects biological aging. The team from Augusta University in Georgia examined sleep data from 6,052 participants, average age 50, collected as part of the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Morning AgClips
Sunbelt Place For Cutting-Edge Weed Research
Sunbelt Ag Expo will be held October 17-19
For the past few years at the Sunbelt Ag Expo, University of Georgia Extension weed specialist Stanley Culpepper, and team have evaluated the WeedOut program, particularly looking at how the novel system might fit into a cotton production system. Culpepper and his team, along with other UGA Extension specialists and industry agronomists annually on the 600-acre Sunbelt Ag Expo Darrell Williams Research Farm, one of the region’s top locations to find useful, cutting-edge solutions for row crop and forage farmers.
WSB-TV
Scientists warn that parasitic brain worm is being seen in the Southeast US
By Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Scientists are warning that a parasitic brain worm that can be ingested through contaminated produce has been found in states around the Southeast. Rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is typically found in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more recently been identified in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. While the parasite can infect humans, it cannot reproduce in the human body. It can, in some, cause severe symptoms. …Have cases of this infection occurred in the United States?
Yes. Cases have occurred in Hawaii, and have been spotted in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida, “likely introduced by infected rats and gastropods [snails] through trade routes, such as on merchant ships,” Nicole Gottdenker told Newsweek. Gottdenker is an associate professor of anatomic pathology at the University of Georgia. A case was recently seen in Atlanta.
Phys Org
From seafloor to space: New bacterial proteins shine light on climate and astrobiology
by Catherine Barzler, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gigatons of greenhouse gas are trapped under the seafloor, and that’s a good thing. Around the coasts of the continents, where slopes sink down into the sea, tiny cages of ice trap methane gas, preventing it from escaping and bubbling up into the atmosphere. While rarely in the news, these ice cage formations, known as methane clathrates, have garnered attention because of their potential to affect climate change. During offshore drilling, methane ice can get stuck in pipes, causing them to freeze and burst. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is thought to have been caused by a buildup of methane clathrates. But until now, the biological process behind how methane gas remains stable under the sea has been almost completely unknown. In a breakthrough study, a cross-disciplinary team of Georgia Tech researchers discovered a previously unknown class of bacterial proteins that play a crucial role in the formation and stability of methane clathrates.
Lancaster Farming
Avian Influenza Vaccine Would Be Last Resort for US Poultry
Philip Gruber
The United States is capable of vaccinating poultry against avian influenza, but doing so would be a last-ditch measure. Vaccination is a political and economic decision as much as a scientific consideration, speakers said Tuesday at the National Meeting on Poultry Health, Processing and Live Production presented by the Delmarva Chicken Association. The case for vaccination is straightforward. …The dominant strain of avian influenza remains mainly a bird virus, and the risk to humans is low. But a variety of mammals have picked up the disease, and there are many opportunities for it to spread from poultry to people, said Mark Tompkins, the director of an influenza research center at the University of Georgia.
The Bakersfield Californian
Business Wire
Yamaha Rightwaters™ joined forces with Georgia Southern University’s (GSU) College of Science and Mathematics and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resources Division to initiate a new conservation project designed to restore degraded oyster beds on the Georgia coast. The research gathered during the project will help determine the carbon burial potential of newly formed oyster reefs off the coast of Georgia. Coastal ecosystems provide the highest economic value of all naturally occurring marine systems due to biogenic habitats that perform multiple functions. Eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, are a commercially important species that also play a critical role in habitat creation by forming large reef structures. Through the project, approximately six tons of bagged oyster shell stacked on pallets are placed at two locations on a northern bank of the North Newport River west of St. Catherines Island to encourage the growth of new, native Eastern oysters.
Phys Org
Double trouble: Infamous ‘eagle killer’ bacterium produces not one, but two toxins
by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
The cyanobacterium Aetokthonos hydrillicola produces not just one, but two highly potent toxins. In the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an international team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and Freie Universität Berlin describes the second toxin, which had remained elusive until now. Even in low concentrations, this toxin can destroy cells and is similar to substances currently used in cancer treatment. Two years ago, the same team established that the first toxin from the cyanobacterium is the cause of a mysterious disease among bald eagles in the USA. Aetokthonos hydrillicola is particularly challenging for researchers. It is notoriously difficult to cultivate and produces one of its toxins only under specific conditions. The fact that it produces two toxins with very different chemical makeups is also unusual. Cyanobacteria normally produce only one toxin—and A. hydrillicola was established as the source of aetokthonotoxin in 2021. This discovery was made by Professor Susan Wilde from the University of Georgia (USA) and Professor Timo Niedermeyer, who worked at MLU until July 2023 and has now joined the researchers at Freie Universität Berlin.
WJCL
Looming government shutdown impacts: WJCL anchor Olivia Wile interviews Dr. Kimberly Martin
Olivia Wile, Anchor Reporter
With less than a week until a potential government shutdown, WJCL 22 News Anchor Olivia Wile talked with a political science professor to learn more about it. “We are here at Georgia Southern University, where I am joined by Dr. Kimberly Martin, a political science professor here. I want to talk about the government shutdown,” said WJCL 22 News Anchor Olivia Wile. “We have a week until a decision, I want to start by asking. what is a government shutdown?” “A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass the 12 appropriation bills that fund the government before Sept. 30,” Martin said. “So by Oct. 1, we would not have a budget, or those budgets wouldn’t pass and we’d have a government shutdown at that point.”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Savannah’s newest ally in addressing affordable housing? Georgia Ports
Ports’ boom attracting warehousing, other related development that makes land scarce and drives up home prices, rents
By Adam Van Brimmer
The Georgia Ports Authority’s rapid growth brings many unintended consequences to the neighborhoods near its Savannah terminals. Truck traffic. Long freight trains. Noise, light and air pollution. And now, a housing crunch. …Savannah housing prices have continued to climb since the report’s release. The average home price is up more than 5% compared to last year, and the average apartment currently rents for $1,600 per month. Homebuilders are struggling to keep pace. According to Georgia Southern University economist Michael Toma, permit activity for single-family homes is down year-over-year, even as construction has accelerated on the Hyundai Metaplant, an electric vehicle factory that is expected to add more than 15,000 jobs, directly and indirectly, to the Savannah area over the next eight years.
WRBL
by: Chuck Williams
Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson has taken the first step to making interim police chief Stoney Mathis the next full-time chief. During a brief executive session late Tuesday night, the mayor recommended Mathis to the city council as the next chief. Mathis, the former chief in Chattahoochee Hills and Fairburn, has been in the interim role since Mid-May. He has been given a lot of leeway by the mayor – the city’s public safety director – to make changes in the department. …Mathis has a law enforcement career that spans 30 years. He has an undergraduate degree from Cameron University in Lawton, Okla., and a master’s degree in public administration from Columbus State University.
Athens Banner-Herald
This Pulitzer Prize-winning author will lecture at UGA and visit Cedar Shoals High School
Andrew Shearer
Athenians might just end up rubbing shoulders with a Pulitzer Prize-winning author this November. Colson Whitehead, whose 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” was showed up on President Barack Obama’s summer reading list, will be in town for two days visiting with students at the University of Georgia and Cedar Shoals High School. The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Department of History will host Whitehead for a lecture at the UGA Chapel at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15. The event is free and open to the public.
The Red & Black
UGA Special Collections Library commemorates Vince Dooley with limited time exhibit
Justin Brosemer
The task of displaying the larger-than-life persona behind the Dooley name is a daunting job to have. However, the University of Georgia’s Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library takes on the challenge with their Legacy showcase for the former UGA athletic director Vince Dooley. As head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, Dooley led the team to win six SEC Championships and the 1980 College Football National Championship. In 1980 and 1982, Dooley was named the NCAA National Coach of the Year and was later inducted into the College Hall of Fame in 1994. The exhibit, entitled “Legacy: Vince Dooley, 1932-2022,” is on display on the second floor of the library in its Rotunda Gallery. The sunlit banquet hall accentuates the five prominent display cases, each dedicated to a specific section of the famed coach’s career.
WJBF
Augusta University Athletics Hall of Fame announced, inaugural class to be inducted in Spring 2025
by: Brendan Robertson
The Augusta University Department of Athletics is excited to announce the formation of the Augusta University Athletics Hall of Fame with the inaugural class slated to be inducted in Spring 2025. “In a profession where we are constantly focused on the future and what’s next, it’s important we look back and recognize those who have helped pave the way for Augusta Athletics and whose accomplishments elevated our program to new heights,” said Director of Athletics Ryan Erlacher. “We look forward to seeing the Hall of Fame take shape this year and thrilled to be inducting our first class in 2025. I have no doubt we’ll have some remarkable nominees, and the HOF committee will have quite a challenge selecting the best of the best.” The Augusta University Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 2023 to honor individuals who have earned outstanding athletics achievements or made a major contribution to the intercollegiate athletics program at Augusta University. The Athletics Hall of Fame is open to former AU student-athletes, coaches, administrators, staff, and supporters.
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Inside Higher Ed
Game On, Again, for Gainful Employment
The rule, which is stronger than versions released during the Obama administration, adds new disclosure requirements for all academic programs despite opposition from across higher education.
By Katherine Knott
Starting in 2026, students who enroll in an academic program that leaves graduates with debt they can’t afford will have to sign a disclosure notice, under a new federal rule aimed at providing families with more information about the costs and risks associated with programs. The disclosure requirement is part of the U.S. Education Department’s new financial value transparency and gainful-employment rule, which was finalized Wednesday and defines what it means to prepare graduates for gainful employment. As part of the rule, programs at for-profit institutions as well as nondegree programs in any sector would have to show that graduates can afford their yearly debt payments and that they are making more than an adult in their state who didn’t go to college. Failing either of those tests in two consecutive years could lead to a program losing access to federal financial aid.
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Inside Higher Ed
House Amendment Would End Fulbright Funding
By Liam Knox
An amendment to a House appropriations bill would eliminate funding for all cultural and educational exchange programs run by the U.S. Department of State, including the Fulbright and Critical Language Scholarships. Representative Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona, introduced the amendment to the state department spending bill on Sept. 8. The bill and its amendments were debated on the house floor Monday, and discussion was tabled after multiple hours. Some of the educational exchange programs on the chopping block are more than half a century old, including the Fulbright, a popular grant program for postsecondary scholars to travel overseas and conduct a particular research project.
Inside Higher Ed
Students and Administrators Diverge on Improving Campus Racial Climate
By Jessica Blake
A new report by NASPA, the professional organization for student affairs administrators, shows that students and senior university officials often have different opinions on how best to improve the racial climate on college campuses. The report is based on an 18-month research project conducted between December 2021 and March 2022 in partnership with the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. It included focus groups with students, a survey of vice presidents of student affairs and senior diversity officers, and a survey of undergraduate students. Both students and administrators agreed (at least to some extent) on what needs to happen on campuses to positively influence racial climate, including: maintaining racial/ethnic diversity at all levels of an institution, providing student engagement opportunities that are welcoming and accessible, establishing mechanisms for reporting bias incidents and holding individuals accountable for causing harm, and publicizing transparent measurements of progress made.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
George Mason President Criticizes Conservative Report Describing “DEI Bloat” at Public Universities
Arrman Kyaw
George Mason University is pushing back against findings in a recent Heritage Foundation report that the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff is “bloated” and unnecessary. According to the report from the conservative think tank, Virginia’s public universities have the largest DEI bureaucracies, meaning that these schools have a higher DEI staff per faculty member ratio than schools in other states. GMU had noticeably high “DEI bloat,” with at least 69 DEI personnel and 938 tenured or tenure-track faculty – a 7.4 DEI staff per 100 faculty ratio, the report noted.
Higher Ed Dive
Half of Hispanic students report difficulty staying in their college program
That’s the highest share of any other racial or ethnic group tracked, according to a recent survey from Gallup and Lumina Foundation.
Natalie Schwartz, Editor
Dive Brief:
Half of Hispanic students enrolled in college reported that it was “difficult” or “very difficult” for them to stay in their program, according to a Wednesday review of recent Gallup and Lumina Foundation polling.
That’s the highest share of any race or ethnicity tracked, the survey showed — 40% of both Asian and Black students also said it was difficult for them to stay enrolled, followed by 37% of White students.
The survey found that a higher share of Hispanic students reported difficulty in 2022 compared to the year before, 50% versus 45%. The latest poll was conducted Oct. 26-Nov. 17 last year.
Higher Ed Dive
Dickinson State finalizes plan to cut 7 programs, 5 tenured faculty
North Dakota’s higher ed board will need to OK eliminating degrees at the public college.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
Dickinson State University will cut eight faculty positions — laying off five tenured professors — as it looks to eliminate seven academic programs, including mathematics, theater and information analytics. President Stephen Easton has said cutbacks are needed to correct a projected $1 million budget hole. The university hasn’t fallen into a financial crisis, according to Easton, but he has warned it would if current spending levels continued. The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education must sign off on the academic reductions. But regardless, Easton’s moves will assuredly inflame tensions at the public college.
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Higher Ed Dive
Accreditation group wants Education Department to withdraw guidance on complaints
CHEA said the August directive curtails accreditors’ independence in creating resolution processes.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
Dive Brief:
The leading accreditor group in the U.S. on Monday called for the U.S. Department of Education to withdraw its recent guidance on how accrediting agencies should handle complaints against colleges or academic programs. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation, or CHEA, said the Education Department’s directives from August “curtail the independence of accrediting organizations” in developing complaint resolution processes. An Education Department spokesperson, however, said in an email Tuesday that the guidance aims to ensure each complaint is heard, “regardless of the source or manner in which it was submitted. This is not new criteria.” Under the guidance, Education Department officials will consider multiple factors to determine if a resolution process is “timely, fair and equitable,” as per the current regulatory standard. Those factors include whether accreditors have accommodations for people with disabilities, and if they allow multiple avenues for reporting.
Inside Higher Ed
Higher Education as Its Own Worst Enemy
In a wide-ranging discussion about his new book, Brian Rosenberg explains how shared governance, tenure and other practices stifle change on college campuses.
By Susan H. Greenberg
In his new book, “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press), Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College, distills a career’s worth of experiences and observations into a trenchant critique of the industry he both loves and laments. He argues that the institutions designed to foster critical inquiry and the open exchange of ideas are themselves staunchly resistant to both. The very structures that have become the hallmarks of postsecondary education in America—classroom lectures, shared governance, faculty tenure—are in fact key obstacles to what he calls “transformational” change. Rosenberg, currently a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and senior adviser to the African Leadership University, spoke with Inside Higher Ed via Zoom. Excerpts of the conversation follow, edited for space and clarity.
Q: Why does higher ed require transformational change right now?
Cybersecurity Dive
CISA rolls dice on public service campaign to raise cyber awareness
The agency is hoping to get families and small businesses to adopt MFA, use stronger passwords and recognize phishing attacks.
David Jones, Reporter
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched its first-ever national public service campaign to raise awareness of cybersecurity in local communities, including for families and small businesses. The Secure our World campaign is designed to teach people and businesses in local communities how to stay safe online. The campaign includes public service announcements on television, digital content, cyber toolkits and other resources.
Inside Higher Ed
Michigan State Fires Football Coach Accused of Sexual Harassment
By Doug Lederman
Michigan State University fired its head football coach Wednesday, two weeks after allegations surfaced that he had sexually harassed a rape survivor and activist. A news release from Michigan State said that its officials had dismissed Mel Tucker “for his admitted and undisputed behaviors which have brought public disrespect, contempt and ridicule upon the university; and constitute a material breach of his agreement, and moral turpitude.” Alan Haller, the university’s vice president and athletics director, filed a notice of intent to terminate Tucker earlier this month, which drew a formal response from the coach.