USG e-clips for October 16, 2020

University System News: Savannah CEO Savannah State Presidential Search Committee Named Staff Report The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has named the two committees to conduct a national search for the next president of Savannah State University. “Savannah State plays an important role as the oldest public HBCU in Georgia,” said […]

USG e-clips October 6, 2020

University System News: Inside Higher Ed An Alternate View of High Case Counts Over 10 percent of on-campus students at Georgia College and State University have had COVID-19. Epidemiologists and university officials say it’s not as bad as it sounds. By Lilah Burke At Georgia College and State University, more than 10 percent of the […]

USG e-clips for October 7, 2020

University System News: Inside Higher Ed An Alternate View of High Case Counts Over 10 percent of on-campus students at Georgia College and State University have had COVID-19. Epidemiologists and university officials say it’s not as bad as it sounds. By Lilah Burke At Georgia College and State University, more than 10 percent of the […]

USG e-clips for October 8, 2020

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC College COVID Tracker: UGA cases hold steady By Eric Stirgus Officials urge more students to get tested University of Georgia officials released data Wednesday that shows new COVID-19 cases have remained relatively low in comparison to the start of the semester, but administrators want students to take additional […]

USG e-clips for September 30, 2020

University System News: Gwinnett Daily Post Georgia shows high COVID case totals at colleges, but UGA reports improvement By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News Georgia has seen several positive trends recently on COVID-19. New infections reported daily have come way down. Georgia health officials reported just over 600 new cases Monday — one of the […]

USG e-clips for October 1, 2020

University System News: Capitol Beat Hundreds of buildings being eyed for possible renaming on Georgia college campuses by Beau Evans An advisory group mulling whether to rename buildings and academic colleges on the University System of Georgia’s 26 campuses has whittled down to a list of 840 buildings and nearly 40 college and university names […]

USG e-clips for October 2, 2020

University System News: WJCL COVID cases on the decline at Georgia Southern University Dave Williams, Reporter COVID cases are headed in the right direction at Georgia Southern University. After seeing numbers in the hundreds when the fall semester started, the number of positive cases has continued to drop. Last week, there were only three, and […]

USG e-clips for October 5, 2020

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A look at major coronavirus developments in Georgia over the past week By Helena Oliviero With the number of coronavirus cases on a steady decline, Georgia is finally out of the COVID-19 red zone. Georgia reported the 23rd-highest rate of case growth in the United States from Sept. 19 […]

USG e-clips for September 29, 2020

University System News: MSN AU sees successful first day of COVID-19 saliva testing Brady Trapnell Getting tested for COVID-19 is becoming a lot less uncomfortable as Augusta University Health started saliva testing at its drive-thru testing site downtown. That means fewer nasal swab tests and that’s an important switch. If you go to the AU […]

USG clips for September 28, 2020

University System News: Fox28 Media Georgia Southern sees decrease in COVID-19 cases since students’ return by Cody Thomas Officials on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong campus say things are looking positive since students returned to class. They say there was an expected spike in COVID-19 cases when students first returned. But in the past three weeks, they […]