University System News:
NurseJournalThe White House just committed $35 million to the advanced nursing education workforce
By Joelle Y. Jean
The White House recently invested $100 million in nursing programs to prevent further shrinking of the nursing workforce. … Some schools that received ANEW program grants announced their plans for the funding: Georgia Southern University School of Nursing plans to prepare nurse practitioner students in behavioral health services, specifically in rural and underserved areas. … Georgia College & State University plans to provide full tuition to nurse practitioner and midwifery students in exchange for agreeing to serve at least two years in an underserved area in Georgia.
WGAUUGA students back in Athens after covering World Cup
This summer, 17 University of Georgia sports media and visual journalism students traveled to Australia to cover the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup for The Associated Press. “It’s one thing to sit in a class and look at great works, breaking them down into component parts to understand how they were made,” said Mark Johnson, a principal lecturer in Journalism, who was one of three professors on the trip. “But to be on the pitch for the largest women’s sporting event in history, with deadlines every minute and seeing the works that you produced show up, minutes after they were made, on web sites and social media feeds around the world—that’s a whole new level of learning.”
Atlanta Business Chronicle
WebMBA alum on building his Tony-award-winning production company and business lessons learned
By Laura Newpoff
In the summer of 2012, Evan McGill was a U.S. training manager for a global medical compression solutions business when he decided his career might get a boost if he earned an MBA. After doing his research, he found the WebMBA consortium program offered by seven University System of Georgia universities. He chose the WebMBA for its reputation as one of the country’s top online programs of its kind.
Ledger-Enquirer
This teacher from Columbus became a hero. How she saved former student from Maui wildfire
By Mark Rice
A Columbus High School and Columbus State University graduate who now is a teacher is being hailed as a hero for saving the life of a former student after a chance encounter during the deadly wildfire on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Lahainaluna High School biology and marine science teacher Jackie Ellis, who graduated in 2008 from CHS and in 2013 from CSU, where she captained the soccer team, helped the former student escape and avoid being among the more than 100 confirmed deaths or unknown number of people still missing amid the devastation.
Supermarket Perimeter
Shuman Farms partners with Georgia athletics programs
By Hayley Hyer
Shuman Farms has partnered with two different collegiate athletic programs in Georgia. The sweet onion grower, packer and shipper is now the official, exclusive sweet onion supplier for the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University. According to Shuman Farms, the three things a company based in Georgia takes seriously are sweet onions, good food and college sports.
Statesboro Herald
Bud Light unveils specialty cans for Georgia Southern football
With Georgia Southern set to open the 2023 football season Saturday, Bud Light has released a limited-edition packaging featuring the university football team’s logo. According to a release from Bud Light, the special packaging and cans are now available at participating retailers. Georgia Southern is one of more than 50 college football teams Bud Light is sponsoring with the specialty beer cans “to bring easy enjoyment to 21+ college football fans across the country throughout the season.”
Albany Herald
ABAC announces First Tuesday Concert Series schedule
The First Tuesday Concert Series at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will kick off on Tuesday with a performance by the ABAC music faculty. The first performance of the season will include voice, piano, clarinet, saxophone and trombone music from the early to late Romantic Period and Harlem Renaissance. The concert starts at 7 p.m. in the Howard Auditorium.
Other News:
Capitol Beat
Hurricane Idalia cleanup underway in South Georgia
By Dave Williams
Utility and highway crews fanned out across South Georgia Thursday restoring power and clearing roads in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, which tore across the region for hours on Wednesday. “We are fortunate the storm was narrow and fast-moving,” Gov. Brian Kemp told reporters Thursday during a news conference at the Georgia Capitol. “But if you were in the path, it was devastating.”
Higher Education News:
Inside Higher Ed
The first 3-year degree programs win approval
By Josh Moody
Three-year bachelor’s degrees are coming to Brigham Young University–Idaho and affiliated Ensign College next year, following approval of the truncated programs by an accrediting body. By eliminating electives, BYU-Idaho will bring five three-year programs online in April: applied business management, family and human services, software development, applied health, and professional studies. Ensign will offer two such programs: communication and information technology. Both institutions are owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and operated by the Church Educational System. The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities approved the seven programs—each of which requires between 90 and 94 credit hours instead of the standard 120—at its June meeting.
Inside Higher Ed
Getting the message—to study economics
By Colleen Flaherty
A new study finds that a light-touch intervention—what one of the authors calls a “classic nudge”—can increase the share of first-generation college students majoring in economics. In this particular experiment, nudging students once about the benefits of studying economics increased the share of first-generation students majoring in the discipline by five percentage points. The effect size was enough to reverse the gap in first-gen economics majors in the sample.
Higher Ed Dive
Cal State system and faculty union hit bargaining impasse, strike threat looms
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
Collective bargaining has broken down between the California State University system and a union representing about 29,000 of its faculty and other staff — raising the specter of a strike just as the academic year begins. The higher education labor movement has boomed over the last couple of years, with prominent strikes in 2023 involving graduate workers at Temple University and the University of Michigan. But such a movement at Cal State, the largest public higher ed system in the U.S., would likely rock the landscape and ignite debate about whether college administrators are acting as good-faith negotiators.
The Washington Post
His bags were packed for college. Then his financial aid disappeared.
By Petula Dvorak
Kamari Felton has spent most of his life packing his bags. As a kid who bounced between aunties’ sofas and homeless shelters, he got used to moving. But this time, as the 22-year-old packed up his room in the Covenant House shelter, he was thrilled. The next day, he’d be riding west toward green mountains and fresh air, to college at Frostburg State University in Maryland, where he was enrolled as a freshman, a scholarship in hand, his schedule already set. Then the call came.
Diverse: Issues in Education
Report: Many CDOs are under-resourced and understaffed
By Arrman Kyaw
A significant portion of chief diversity officers (CDOs) are under-resourced and understaffed, according to a recent report from The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE). NADOHE’s inaugural “State of the CDO survey report” indicated that 32.2% of the surveyed CDOs worked with annual operating budgets of $39,000 or less. And almost half of CDOs (44%) had between zero and two full-time-equivalent employees reporting directly to them.