University System News:
www.thebrunswicknews.com
Closings and late openings announced for Thursday
https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/closings-and-late-openings-announced-for-thursday/article_87bd747c-174f-5f80-a6ff-765470add79b.html
By TAYLOR COOPER
Agencies all over the Golden Isles are either delaying their openings or not opening at all today due to the hazardously cold weather and icy conditions that descended on the area Wednesday. School Superintendent Virgil Cole delivered the news that the Glynn County Board of Education canceled school Thursday, and will not require teachers or staff to come in. The school system plans to resume normal work and class schedules on Friday. All classes at the College of Coastal Georgia were canceled for Thursday as well, according to Glynn County Emergency Management Director Jay Wiggins.
www.ajc.com
Sorry UGA students, title game doesn’t mean break from class
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/sorry-uga-students-title-game-doesn-mean-break-from-class/mBZOkwjNCXju0ZlrWPdAtI/
Eric Stirgus The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
University of Georgia students hopeful their school’s national championship football game Monday night might mean a day without class got a sobering message. Administrators emailed students and staff Tuesday reminding everyone there’ll be no university-wide interruption to the academic schedule. “We have consulted the practices of comparable universities that have played in the championship and have that it is not commonplace to formally cancel classes due to game participation,” part of the message said.
Higher Education News:
www.chronicle.com
Why Education Matters to Your Health
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Education-Matters-to-Your/242123?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=4defb9869b1c417d8aecf514de2bffca&elq=e571e28fb0804386afca56e054f6e2e0&elqaid=17303&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7533
By Karin Fischer
Across America, people are falling ill and dying young. These men and women have something in common. In fact, they stand out because of something they don’t have: a college degree. A recent report, by the Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, made the stakes clear: Men and women who haven’t been to college live shorter, less healthy lives, and are losing ground compared with college graduates. This is about more than money — the findings suggest that pain, stress, and social dysfunction may all play a role.
www.jbhe.com
Lumina Foundation Shifts Course to Promote Racial Justice on College Campuses
Lumina Foundation Shifts Course to Promote Racial Justice on College Campuses
The Lumina Foundation is a private, Indianapolis-based foundation with about $1.4 billion in assets. The organization is the nation’s largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans’ success in higher education. In 2000, USA Group, Inc., the nation’s largest private guarantor and administrator of education loans, sold most of its operating assets to the Student Loan Marketing Association, Inc. (Sallie Mae). Proceeds from the sale established the USA Group Foundation, which later changed its name to the Lumina Foundation. In 2016, the Lumina Foundation awarded 87 grants, totaling more than $45 million. Most grants are for programs to increase the number of Americans with higher education credentials, with special emphasis on underrepresented populations. Now, in a departure from its usual mission, the foundation has allocated $2.5 million to support racial justice work on college campuses.
www.jbhe.com
Will the New Tax on University Endowments Hurt African American College Students?
Will the New Tax on University Endowments Hurt African American College Students?
The new tax billed passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump, calls for a 1.4 percent tax on net investment income for educational institutions whose financial assets are more than $500,000 per student. The new tax is expected to raise $1.8 billion over the next decade according to the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. The new tax will only impact about 35 educational institutions, including most Ivy League universities and other high-ranked educational institutions with the largest endowments. …Any cuts to student financial aid programs may disproportionately affect African American students. …Mary Sue Coleman, former president of the University of Michigan who is now president of the Association of American Universities, said in a statement, “Passing this legislation will mean less money for student aid and for life-saving research at America’s research universities.