University System News:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Florida A&M plays on Georgia turf in college recruiting border wars
By Eric Stirgus
…Florida and Georgia wage battle over water rights and football (this weekend in Jacksonville) and for college students. The border war is real. Ten University System of Georgia institutions offer cheaper in-state tuition to undergraduate students from Florida and other states that border Georgia. More than 4,000 students paid in-state tuition last year, according to an annual University System enrollment report. About 550 Florida A&M students are from Georgia. and officials say Atlanta is its top recruiting grounds outside the Sunshine State.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Anti-abortion group to display ‘graphic’ images, videos at Georgia universities
By Eric Stirgus and Maya T. Prabhu
A month after a federal judge temporarily blocked Georgia’s new anti-abortion law from taking effect, a group that opposes the procedure plans to display graphic images and videos of aborted fetuses at four public universities this week, starting Monday at Georgia Tech. Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this year signed legislation that would have outlawed most abortions once a doctor can detect fetal cardiac activity — usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. …Created Equal has permits to visit Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Kennesaw State universities and the University of Georgia. The group plans to use a Jumbotron at various locations at the schools to display images to make “the case that abortion is age discrimination.” All four schools, along with the University System of Georgia, said in statements that the organization properly completed paperwork to appear under their various freedom of expression policies.
Albany Herald
Albany State ranks among most affordable online colleges
From staff reports
Albany State University is ranked as one of the Top 10 schools in the nation among most affordable online colleges based on data compiled by SR Education Group, a leading education research publisher. In research gathered on 1,943 online colleges, Albany State ranked:
♦ No. 6 among Most Affordable Online Colleges;
♦ No. 7 among Most Affordable Online Associate’s Degrees;
♦ No. 7 among Best Online Bachelor’s Degrees in Georgia.
The rankings on GuidetoOnlineSchools.com highlight online colleges that provide the best return on investment, using alumni salary data from PayScale and tuition rates from official school websites.
Southeast Georgia Today
DUAL ENROLLMENT COSTLY BUT SUCCESSFUL
By Senator Jack Hill, Reidsville
UNRESOLVED ISSUES IN DUAL ENROLLMENT
Dual Enrollment for high school students has existed under different names such as “Move On When Ready” and “Accel” for a number of years. High school students have always been able to enroll in colleges while still in high school but there were always impediments to full participation. One of the barriers was that school districts lost funding for the period of time that a high school student was taking a college class. Another impediment was that students’ credit hours would count against their HOPE Scholarship eligibility later on. An ad hoc committee finally worked out the details of what became known as Dual Enrollment and for many reasons, the program has grown exponentially.
accessWDUN
Collins, UNG invite veterans to tell their stories for The Veterans History Project
By B.J. Williams News Director
North Georgia veterans have a special invitation for this coming Friday, Nov. 8 from Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA) and the University of North Georgia. Rep. Collins and UNG students are partnering to invite veterans to the Dahlonega campus to share their stories as part of the Veterans History Project. The Veterans History Project is an archive at the Library of Congress that preserves narratives of veterans’ service through oral history interviews and documents such as photographs, letters and journals. Collins said it’s vital for veterans to share their stories.
Tifton CEO
ABAC Names Rural Studies Head, Launches Track in Community Health
Staff Report
With the naming of Dr. Adrian Israel Martinez-Franco as the new head of the Department of Rural Studies, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is launching a new Community Health track in the Rural Community Development bachelor’s degree program. Dr. Matthew Anderson, Dean of ABAC’s School of Arts and Sciences, believes the appointment of Martinez-Franco and the new Community Health program will have far reaching implications for ABAC students.
Albany Herald
Albany State University student Andrea Monroe claims College Art Competition Best in Show
By Carlton Fletcher
Valdosta State University art students may have claimed an overwhelming number of the awards handed out Friday during the 16th annual South Georgia College Art Competition at the Carnegie Library, but it was Albany State University junior Andrea Monroe who stole the show. Monroe’s drawing titled “Unexplained Characters” was named Best in Show at the opening reception/awards ceremony for the annual competition held Friday night at the Albany Area Arts Council Gallery.
Art Daily
Georgia Museum of Art publications win national awards
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received two awards from the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) 2019 Museum Publications Design Competition for its stellar work in publications: an honorable mention each for “Clinton Hill” by museum director William U. Eiland and “Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann” by former curator of American art Sarah Kate Gillespie. In the very competitive process this year, the only other museum to win two awards for exhibition catalogue design is the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Additionally, the Georgia Museum of Art was one of only four university museums in the country to win one of these awards.
Albany Herald
Albany State community walks for assault, domestic violence
By Rachel Lawrence Special to The Herald
The Albany State University campus and community supporters gathered in October for the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event to raise awareness about sexual violence against women. The event, hosted by ASU’s E-5 initiative and held during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, invited participants, particularly men, to wear and walk in women’s high-heeled shoes. The program noted that men can also be victims of domestic violence.
WTOC
Holiday Helpers Tree kicks off at Georgia Southern
A Georgia Southern University fall tradition kicked off Friday morning. Organizers of the Holiday Helpers Tree gathered in the Russell Union. The tree features cards with gift ideas for needy people in the community served by one of several charity groups. Students, faculty, and staff can select cards and bring back gifts to brighten someone’s life. For the second year, donors can pick a card that asks them to donate time helping one of several non-profit groups on campus or in the community. …Georgia Southern’s first lady, Dr. Jane Marrero had the honor of picking the first card.
Douglas Now
SGSC STUDENTS FROM THE THEATRE AND NURSING PROGRAMS PARTICIPATE IN TEEN MAZE EVENT
It’s all about choices. This is the message of the Teen Maze at Pierce County Middle School (PCMS) in Blackshear, Georgia. South Georgia State College (SGSC) theatre students and nursing students from the Waycross and Douglas campuses came together to support the Pierce County Family Connection at this year’s event. “Teen Maze is an outstanding and thought provoking program that helps middle and high school students see the firsthand effects of life altering decisions through real life demonstrations,” explained Katherine LeRoy-Lawson, SGSC assistant professor of theatre. “We worked closely with Executive Director of Pierce County Family Connection Stephanie Belle to orchestrate our participation and performance. Our students did an outstanding job portraying characters in the party and crash scenes.” SGSC nursing students from the Waycross campus prepared trifold boards and spoke with the eighth-grade students at PCMS on various health care related topics including: abstinence/contraceptives; sexual transmitted infections (STIs); alcohol/ JUUL/ nicotine/ marijuana use; lack of motivation; taking responsibility; safe internet use/sex trafficking; dating violence; social media addiction; gaming addiction; cyberbullying/bullying; pornography/sexting; handling stress/depression and suicide. These were all topics the PCMS students and staff recognized and reported as problematic for our youth.
The Brunswick News
College to host Coastal Science Symposium
By Lauren McDonald
College of Coastal Georgia will host its annual Coastal Science Symposium Nov. 15. The event will bring together students, faculty, scientists, natural resource managers and community members to explore coastal and marine science research. …Toby Daly-Engel, a renowned shark biologist from the Florida Institute of Technology, will be the event’s keynote speaker. Daly-Engel’s Shark Conservation lab at Florida Tech studies the molecular ecology and evolution of sharks and other migratory marine animals in order to better conserve and protect ecosystem health.
Savannah Morning News
SSU to host Entrepreneurship Day
The public is invited to attend the eighth annual Entrepreneurship Day from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at Savannah State University. Hosted by SSU’s Advancement of Creativity and Entrepreneurship Center, the event opens with a panel discussion entitled “Growing Your Business: Creating the Wow Business Environment.” Panelists include SSU alumna Charisse Bruin, owner of Charisse Styles; Manuel Diaz with the City of Savannah’s Office of Business Opportunity; Berry Aldridge, director of ticketing for the Savannah Bananas; and David Moses, area director of public relations and communications at the Westin Savannah.
Growing Georgia
Explore ABAC During Stallion Day on November 9
High school seniors will have a chance to win a $500 tuition waiver and much more on Nov. 9 during Stallion Day at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Registration begins at 8 a.m. in the Donaldson Dining Hall. Stallion Day kicks off with campus tours guided by the ABAC Ambassadors from 8-8:45 a.m. followed by Club Connections in Gressette Gymnasium and a continuation of campus tours. Information sessions on topics ranging from Financial Aid, the Honors Program, and Student Engagement Programs are then on the agenda. Visiting students will also be able to stop by the different schools of study based on their area of academic interest to learn more about the programs being offered.
The Oconee Enterprise
UNG Scholarship banquet provides and inspires school pride
by Julia Fechter
During Oconeefest, the University of North Georgia Oconee campus scholarship banquet, freshman Jessie Chambers said that even before college, she had UNG on her mind. “During the summer, enroute to the swimming pool, we would often pass the Oconee campus and I would always tell my dad, ‘I want to go there, dad,’” said Chambers, “and after that, every time we would pass, my parents would say, ‘There’s Jessie’s school.’”
Valdosta Daily Times
DAVIS: Standing up for our VSU Queen
As I contemplated how to respond to the recent article about my event, “One Voice. One Message,” I was at the point of not responding at all. First, I honor David Sumner and his contributions to the City of Valdosta. I do not believe there is a racist bone in his body. However, we must address the elephant in the room. …What is going on in Valdosta is what I call unwilling racism. What I mean by this is we have a problem with race in our city, but it is swept under the rug. …We come to Valdosta State University to learn to think for ourselves and college gives us the ability to do so. In saying so, there are systems and agencies at work here. As a student studying sociology/anthropology, the agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices and system is the structure that is established to form our society. In other words, I stand behind Mirakal Jackson. She is our VSU ambassador, top of her class, and our reigning homecoming queen. She was not the only one criticized for standing for facts in the truth that night as well.
Albany Herald
Georgia Southwestern receives minority STEM grant
From staff reports
The National Science Foundation has awarded a portion of a $3 million grant to Georgia Southwestern State University to increase the number of underrepresented minority students graduating with degrees in the STEM — science, technology, mathematics, engineering — fields. GSW is a founding member of the first-ever Southwest Georgia consortium of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, or the Southwest Georgia LSAMP Alliance.
Savannah Business Journal
Georgia Southern improves health in Coastal Georgia through new partnership
Staff Report
The Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University is partnering with the Coastal Health District (CHD) to train future health professionals through the formation of an Academic Health Department (AHD.) “The goal of this partnership is to enhance the relationship JPHCOPH already has with the CHD,” said Angie Peden, assistant director of the JPHCOPH’s Center for Public Health Practice and Research. “We want to take what we are doing to connect the college and the district and bring it to the next level. My hope is that the formal partnership of an AHD will help us do just that.”
The Red & Black
UGA scientists receive $1.6M to study disease transmission
Savannah Sicurella | Campus News Editor
The National Science Foundation has awarded researchers with the University of Georgia’s Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases a $1.6 million grant to study cutaneous leishmaniasis and Chagas disease, two vector-borne tropical diseases, according to a UGA news release. Researchers will focus on the relationships between habitat characteristics, human activity and disease transmission, as well as the ways in which humans perceive their personal health risks and how changes in behavior can affect public health policy and environmental management practices.
Valliant News
More young people are overweight, but fewer are trying to lose weight: Study
Written by Robert Smith
More young people who are overweight aren’t trying to lose weight, according to highlighting how this trend compromises future opportunities to prevent the next obese generation. Researchers were concerned over a previous study that found fewer overweight and obese adults were trying to lose weight and wanted to see if the same attitudes were being instilled in young people. Looking at data over 26 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers from Georgia Southern University found increasing rates of overweight and obesity among 16- to 19-year-olds but a decline in the percentage of adolescents who had tried to lose weight.
The Red & Black
Market at Tate to serve gelato brand co-founded by UGA alumnus
Lora Yordanova | Contributor
Honeysuckle Gelato, co-owned by a University of Georgia alumnus, is now available at UGA’s Market at Tate and is expanding to open several more locations in the Southeast. UGA Terry College of Business alumnus Wes Jones started the gelato business with partners Jackson Smith and Khatera Ballard in 2011. “Despite being a Terry alum, I never thought that I would work in the business world,” said Jones, who previously served as a Teach for America Corps member and worked in real estate and the nonprofit sector after getting his Masters of Business Administration.
Savannah Morning News
Savannah city council district races a mix of self-funding, donations
By Nick Robertson
As Savannah’s Nov. 5 municipal election approaches, the Savannah Morning News has examined campaign-finance disclosures for candidates running for Savannah City Council district-alderman seats that were made available by the Savannah Clerk of Council office by Nov. 1. Descriptions are from the forms submitted.
…District 6
Three candidates are running to represent District 6: substitute teacher Antonio Hunter, Georgia Southern University Police Department Captain Kurtis Purtee, …The summary report in the filing provided by Purtee’s campaign for the period ending on Oct. 25 presents duplicated data in the fields for in-kind contributions and cash donations. However, since no in-kind donations are indicated in the itemized lists in any of Purtee’s filings, it can be presumed that these totals refer to monetary contributions. Under that presumption, Purtee reports raising a total of $6,230 by Oct. 25, and spending a total of $5,060.92 during the same time period, leaving him with a net balance on hand of $1,169.08. Purtee primarily depended on small-amount donors in his campaign, but James Hall provided him with $1,500, and Meia Joyner gave $750.
Higher Education News:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Enrollment Crash Goes Deeper Than Demographics
Colleges can’t stop what’s coming, but they can be better prepared.
By Nathan D. Grawe
In a recent conversation about potential threats to higher education, W. Joseph King, president of Lyon College and an author of How to Run a College, made an astute observation about today’s environment. When you see the lowest birthrate ever recorded, he said, the challenges of demographic change are simply a reality that all colleges are going to need to face. “But,” he added, “it’s not just the demographics.” In other words, as important as demographic forces will be in coming years, colleges must act decisively to control the many things that are within their power. This is not to suggest that low fertility rates and shifts in population composition are of little consequence. Just ask colleges that depend on markets in the Northeast and Midwest, where the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (Wiche) reports that the number of high-school graduates has declined since 2010. The downward trend is likely to accelerate and to extend throughout the country in the mid-2020s, as a consequence of fertility declines that began during the financial crisis and have continued to decline.
Inside Higher Ed
Study finds that colleges are more likely to reject applicants who report felony convictions, even for minor felonies. At colleges with high crime rates, officials were more likely to reject black students.
By Scott Jaschik
The issue of whether colleges should ask applicants if they have felony convictions has sharply divided colleges. A majority of four-year institutions do so. They say that basic safety needs require that they ask the question — although they admit that training is needed in how to analyze such a report (training that most colleges lack). Still, the push to “ban the box” (referring to the box applicants check if they have a criminal history) remains strong. The Common Application last year dropped the question. The State University of New York did so in 2016. Under the Obama administration, the Education Department urged colleges to think hard about dropping the box, but that push has not continued in the Trump administration. Now a study arrives — published in the journal Criminology — that raises questions about the policies of colleges.
Inside Higher Ed
Alternative Textbook Providers on the Rise
As major textbook publishers grapple with new strategic directions, alternative providers focused on lower-cost materials seize the opportunity to grow their market share.
By Lindsay McKenzie
It’s a turbulent time for the college textbook industry. Low student enrollment, tight company budgets and changing business plans have hampered growth at major educational publishers such as Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. While the biggest publishers are struggling to get their finances in order, smaller providers are experiencing rapid growth and report record textbook selections by faculty members. A focus on lower-cost materials and open educational resources has helped them to win business away from their larger competitors, leaders of these companies say. FlatWorld, a small publisher that charges between $24.95 and $39.95 for its digital textbooks, gained 2,000 new faculty adoptions in the 2019-20 academic year, an increase of 10 percent over the previous year. The publisher has 135 titles in use at over 1,500 institutions in the U.S.
Inside Higher Ed
Getting a job increasingly requires going through an interview on an AI platform. Some colleges are trying to prepare their students for these nonhuman interactions, but many institutions are just getting acclimated to this new technology.
By Lilah Burke
Miguel Santiago, a senior at Baruch College in Manhattan, is graduating soon and already considering his next move — maybe to a job at Goldman Sachs or somewhere else in banking. In at least six of his interviews, he’s been questioned by a computer and not a live person. “They’ve basically replaced the first round with the HireVue,” he said, referring to the video and artificial intelligence platform increasingly being used by employers for job interviews. When a candidate applies to a job at a company that uses HireVue, they are asked to go on to the platform, allow use of their webcam and respond to interview questions on video. The candidate’s answers are recorded and then saved to the platform.