University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC On Campus: Dueling views of pandemic, Remembering Mark Ivester By Eric Stirgus It’s been about a month since the first of Georgia’s colleges and universities reopened their campuses for students for the fall semester. The different viewpoints about how the process has gone were on display at Tuesday’s […]

University System News:   The Union Recorder COVID cases leveling out at GC By Gil Pound After making a few national and statewide headlines for the wrong reasons, Georgia College is experiencing a leveling out when it comes to COVID-19 cases among students and staff. Numbers were at their worst the week of Aug. 20-26, […]

University System News: The Augusta Chronicle Augusta University to offer saliva COVID-19 test Miguel Legoas Augusta University Health will start offering coronavirus testing via saliva for children Tuesday and for adults Monday, Sept. 28. Spokeswoman Danielle Harris said the new test was developed by a team of researchers at the Medical College of Georgia led […]

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC College COVID Tracker: UGA reports large decline in new cases By Eric Stirgus Here are the latest developments of COVID-19 cases on metro Atlanta’s college campuses and in other parts of Georgia: University of Georgia The university on Wednesday released its weekly update on COVID-19 cases among its […]

University System News: Athens CEO Board of Regents Elects Officers for ‘21 The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) today elected Regent Sachin Shailendra to a second one-year term as the Board’s chair and Regent Cade Joiner to a one-year term as the Board’s vice chair. Regent Shailendra will serve as […]

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Georgia State University’s president announces departure By Eric Stirgus Georgia State University President Mark Becker announced Tuesday he’s leaving the position in June after more than a decade in the job of leading the school, which has grown under his tenure into having the largest enrollment of any university […]

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Georgia schools top categories in U.S. News college rankings list By Eric Stirgus Five Georgia colleges and universities were at the top of the class in several categories in the closely-watched U.S. News & World Report higher education rankings list released Monday. Georgia Tech was first in the nation […]

University System News: InsiderAdvantage Working group will examine USG’s post-tenure review policy by Cindy Morley It’s been nearly 25 years since the University System of Georgia (USG) adopted its post-tenure review policy. And during that quarter-century, the policy has remained largely unaltered. That could change. USG Chancellor Steve Wrigley announced Wednesday the formation of a […]

University System News: Trenton Daily News Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College leads University System in saving money on books From Staff Reports When it comes to saving money on the cost of textbooks, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College leads the way among the 26 colleges and universities in the University System of Georgia. According to information from […]

University System News: Statesboro Herald COVID cases drop by 29% at GS Report sees weekly case count fall 145 to 363 From staff reports After reporting 508 COVID-19 cases among students and staff for the week of Aug. 24–30, Georgia Southern University saw the total number of cases reported last week fall about 29% to […]