CUInsight
Robins Financial Credit Union supports education with local scholarships
Robins Financial Credit Union proudly honors their commitment to empowering education in our community by supporting two local scholarships. The credit union donated $5,000 to the Fort Valley State University Foundation and $4,000 to the Georgia Military College Foundation. …This marks the first year that Robins Financial has donated to the Fort Valley State University (FVSU) Foundation scholarship. Their $5,000 donation supports a one-year scholarship for one student. Mark Nooks Jr. was selected as the 2023 recipient of the FVSU Foundation scholarship. Nooks is a rising senior majoring in Middle Grades Education.
WSAV
GSU gives honorary scholarship to one deserving little boy
by: Joey Lamar
Meet David Josiah — Spina bifida and he was just named as an honorary member of the Georgia Southern Eagles football team. Head Coach Clay Helton made the announcement after his weekly press conference with the media. Coach Helton signed the honorary scholarship for David. He was also presented with an Eagles jersey a gift bag that contained a hat, a t-shirt and a football signed by members of the team. …David was introduced to Georgia Southern through Team Impact. who matches children facing serious illness and disability with college sports teams, creating a long-term, life-changing experience for everyone involved.
Science Magazine
MCG Anesthesiology Externship Program helps grow profession
A unique program that sees students at the Medical College of Georgia working as anesthesia technologists throughout their four years of medical school can influence more of them to pursue the specialty as a career, investigators report. The MCG Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine’s nearly 100-year-old Externship Program is one of only five or six in the country and allows interested medical students to work nights, weekends and holidays, as a critical part of the anesthesia and operating room teams. Anesthesia techs are typically responsible for sterilizing, cleaning, assembling, calibrating, testing and troubleshooting various pieces of machinery in the operating room. Students in the externship program also routinely perform airway management, maintain vascular access and help perform rapid transfusions in emergent cases.
Grice Connect
FBI Collegiate Academy presents unique opportunity for Georgia Southern students
The FBI Atlanta Field Office will soon hold its first ever Collegiate Academy in collaboration with Georgia Southern. The collegiate academy provides a series of seminars to college students to spread awareness of the Bureau’s mission, goals, history, and internal workings while offering young adults the unique opportunity to ask questions and have discussions directly with FBI personnel. …The dates for the collegiate academy take place on Wednesdays in September at Georgia Southern in the Carroll Building Classroom 2226. Each class runs from 6p-8:30pm on each date.
WJBF
Lots of opportunities for a bright future at the Hull College of Business at Augusta University
by: Brad Means
The Fall semester is off to a busy start at Augusta University. On this edition of The Means Report, we talk to Mark Thompson. He is the interim dean at the Hull College of Business. Thompson discusses the degree programs that can give graduates an advantage in the business world. He also talks about careers in the cyber industry and awesome internships.
Athens CEO
One Historic Downtown is Making Visionary Changes with Help from UGA Institute of Government
Margaret Blanchard
The adage that good things come to those who wait is apparent in Ringgold. The town of nearly 3,500 nestled in the foothills of the northwest Georgia mountains is booming thanks to an influx of grants awarded in part because of a Renaissance Strategic Vision and Plan (RSVP) completed by the UGA Institute of Government in 2017. …In its 10th year, the RSVP is a unique process created at the University of Georgia that helps communities across Georgia re-envision their downtowns, invigorate citizen involvement and jumpstart economic development. Each RSVP results in a thoroughly researched and visually compelling document that illustrates the community’s vision for the future and provides the steps to getting there.
The Washington Post
What a Calculator Can Tell You About ChatGPT
Analysis by Stephen Mihm | Bloomberg (Stephen Mihm, a professor of history at the University of Georgia)
ChatGPT and other AI programs can instantly generate plausible-sounding prose. But they’ve also generated more than a bit of anguish among educators, who have discovered that lazy students turn to AI to save them. Perhaps these applications will genuinely upend education, consigning student essays to the dustbin of history. But this isn’t the first time teachers have confronted a threat to traditional teaching methods. And the hysteria and alarm — never mind predictions of doom — never quite seem to pan out.
WJBF
You can help support first responders and veterans at an upcoming event in Augusta
by: Brad Means
As the nation prepares to honor the lives lost on September 11th, 2001, a local event needs your support. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is hosting its annual 5k run and walk. It’s Saturday, September 9th at Augusta University. The foundation provides support and assistance to the families of first responders and veterans who died in the line of duty.
Farmers Review Africa
Optimising chicken nutrition – new app helps farmers get feed mixes right
By Staff Reporter
A free mobile app for chicken farmers is set to make optimal poultry nutrition easier, while also helping farmers save money and improve profits. The new FeedMixer App is designed by poultry nutrition experts at the Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia in the US and funded by the World Poultry Foundation, to address a major challenge chicken farmers face. Many self-mix their chicken feed due to rising commercial feed costs and limited supply of certain grains, but often find it difficult to achieve the right balance of nutrients.
yahoo!news
Will AI make us even lonelier at work?
Lydia Smith·Writer, Yahoo Finance UK
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence and tools like Chat GPT has led to a lot of anxiety. Despite the hype about a robot takeover, though, it’s likely AI will gradually become a part of our jobs as a tool to help ease workloads, rather than replace us. However, research suggests that AI may have other downsides – including an increase in loneliness and sleep problems among workers. AI is already changing the nature of work and in some cases, it’s taking over the mundane tasks we don’t particularly enjoy doing. But a new study suggests this automation comes at a cost – employees who use AI are more likely to experience loneliness, poor sleep and fall into bad habits, including drinking heavily after work. The research was led by Pok Man Tang, an assistant professor of management at the University of Georgia who had previously worked in an investment bank where he used AI systems. Tang and his team carried out four experiments in the US, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia – and found the results were consistent across different cultures.
Health News
Sleep May Reduce Impulsive Behaviors in Kids
Kimberly Drake, Author
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that kids 6-12 years get 9-12 hours of sleep and teens 13-18 years sleep for 8-10 hours per night. However, a CDC study found that nearly 60% of middle school students and 73% of high schoolers do not get these recommended amounts. While sleep is critical for overall health in adolescence, a new study published in the August issue of Sleep Health found that it might also help manage impulsive behaviors. For the research, scientists from the Youth Development Institute at the University of Georgia used data from 11,878 children aged 9-11 from the NIH-funded Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.
WABE
‘Tidal wave’ of new warehouses pushes residents out, changes coastal Georgia landscape
Kailey Cota | The Current
Dennis Baxter spent two decades as the city manager of Pooler ushering the once-sleepy town of 2,500 residents into a new era of booming residential and commercial growth. Now, as mayor of Bloomingdale, he’s also encouraging development in this town where he’s lived for half a century. …He hit his limit of what’s good for business and the community this year when an industrial warehouse rose up across the street from his and his wife’s parents’ family homes. The land once home to one of the oldest operating farms in the county now is filled with concrete slabs and construction debris. …“We’re riding a wave, and I think it’s a wave that will go on for a very long time – this is an enduring trend,” Jeff Humphreys, the director of a logistics study the University of Georgia’s business school published in 2022. “We got an outside share of that growth and it stuck, even though the pandemic has passed, demand has continued to increase.” But what’s good for the port may not be good for the individual communities trying to absorb the new churn. …Jamal Toure, a community leader in Monteith and a lecturer of African Studies at Georgia Southern University, says he’s been trying to warn people about the depletion of historic Black populations in rural Coastal Georgia. He believes the alarm about the swift pace of warehouse growth is due to white families and communities being displaced, too.
WTOC
By Tim Guidera
Video
The community and many around it won’t feel quite the same after Friday because Dal Cannady won’t be telling the people who live there what is happening on a daily, nightly and sometimes middle-of-the-night basis. Friday, Sept. 1 is Dal’s last day at WTOC – and we want to look back at how he has grown from correspondent to community icon in the region he served. WTOC reporter for 27 years says goodbye; President Kyle Marrero remarked on Cannady’s leaving.
Athens Banner-Herald
Details on speeding and reckless driving arrest of Georgia football’s Jarvis Jones
Marc Weiszer
Jarvis Jones, the Georgia football support staffer and former Bulldogs star linebacker, was arrested after being pulled over by Athens Clarke-County police the night before the team’s season-opener for driving more than double the speed limit. Police were monitoring traffic at 10:40 p.m. Friday with a speed detection device when Jones’ 1984 Buick Regal was clocked going 86 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour zone westbound on W. Broad Street, according to a police incident report obtained on Tuesday morning. …He was booked in the Clarke County Jail and bonded out early Saturday. …Jones arrest follows a turbulent offseason in which Georgia players were arrested or cited for speeding, reckless driving or racing at least 14 times.
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Higher Ed Dive
Why colleges are using algorithms to determine financial aid levels
The practice can help colleges optimally distribute their limited resources, but it could also cause issues for students and even create legal risk.
By Lilah Burke
As technology has grown more sophisticated, algorithms have slowly crept into more and more operations on college campuses. Take admissions, where some colleges are using artificial intelligence to help them decide whether to admit a student. While that practice is still somewhat rare, four-year institutions are more commonly using algorithms to help with another admissions decision — how much aid to offer already admitted students. If an institution has limited resources, education experts say, an algorithm can help optimize how aid is distributed. Others say the practice could cause issues for students and even open institutions up to potential legal risk. But both skeptics and proponents agree that using an algorithm successfully — and fairly — depends on institutions and vendors being thoughtful.
Inside Higher Ed
Report Shows Gaps and Successes in Immigrant Student Support
By Jessica Blake
A recent report shows that while nearly one in three community college students is of immigrant origin, nearly 80 percent of college practitioners say their community college isn’t fully meeting those students’ needs. These institutions also “face substantial hurdles in supporting this population at all skill levels, with limited research on effective programs and interventions that bridge disparities,” the report states.
Inside Higher Ed
‘Highly Disruptive’: Proposed Overtime Rules Raise Concerns
Salaried employees who make $55,000 or less would be eligible for overtime under the Biden administration’s new proposal. Thousands of jobs at colleges and universities could be affected.
By Katherine Knott
Thousands of employees at colleges and universities, including admissions officers, student affairs professionals and athletics staffers, could become eligible for overtime pay under a new proposal from the Biden administration. Currently, salaried employees who make more than $35,568 a year and work in an “executive, administrative, or professional capacity” are exempted from receiving overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. The Biden administration wants to raise the salary cutoff for these “white-collar exemptions” to $55,068—a 55 percent jump that could expand overtime eligibility to 3.6 million salaried workers across all sectors of the economy.
Inside Higher Ed
Congressional Republicans Seek to Block Income-Based Repayment Plan
By Katherine Knott
More than four million student loan borrowers have signed up for a new income-driven repayment plan, the Education Department announced Tuesday as congressional Republicans moved forward with House and Senate resolutions to block that plan. Louisiana senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said in a statement that the plan known as Saving on A Valuable Education (SAVE) would be costly and unfair to borrowers, would result in fewer student loans getting repaid and would incentivize students to take on more debt.
Inside Higher Ed
Opinion
Attacks on DEI Jeopardize College-Employer Partnerships
State restrictions risk undermining efforts to create a more racially equitable workforce, Kermit Kaleba and Kysha Wright Frazier write.
By Kermit Kaleba and Kysha Wright Frazier
Community colleges partnering with employers across the United States have made great strides in upskilling workers, developing pipelines of new talent and removing tough barriers for workers of color. But now that essential work is in jeopardy. Recent state government actions attacking diversity efforts and the U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling are hindering these partnerships and their mission to create more racially equitable opportunities and outcomes for learners and workers of color.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Military Academies Retain Affirmative Action in Admissions
Lois Elfman
The U.S. Supreme Court decision rejecting race conscious admissions at colleges and universities includes an exemption for military service academies. Although a challenge to the exemption is expected, the justices who struck down affirmative action in admissions noted that military academies have “potentially distinct interests” when it comes to promoting racial diversity. Thirty-five former military leaders filed a friend-of-the-court brief that referenced the national security interests at stake in sustaining the longstanding admissions policy.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
As WVU Struggles, Pols Project Hope, But Offer Little Help
Jon Edelman
West Virginia governor Jim Justice is confident in the future of education in his state. “We’ve had tough times — there will be more tough times — but absolutely we are rising from the ashes,” he said on August 22nd. Jordan’s comments came as he signed a bill allocating $45 million to Marshall University to create a new cybersecurity center. That project was approved in a special legislative session that was more notable for what it did not do—send funds to West Virginia University (WVU), which is currently embroiled in controversy over its plans to cut departments in response to a $45 million budget gap that may grow to $75 million in five years.