As the number of coronavirus cases exploded across the University of Georgia’s Athens campus in late August, some faculty began asking department heads about shifting from in-person classes to an online curriculum. After fielding several requests, one faculty chair emailed a dire warning to members of his department: the university […]
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Getting off to a strong start on their own field has become the norm for the Florida State Seminoles. The squad has posted a 30-9 all-time record when opening a season at home, including an 18-3 mark since 1975. The Seminoles will look to improve upon those numbers when they […]
Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife Kelly are making a bigger commitment to his alma mater, the University of Georgia. After an initial donation of $350,000 to the athletic department to help launch a social justice program with the UGA Athletic […]
Georgia State House member Beth Moore is inviting students, teachers or administrators to anonymously report unsafe conditions at schools, which have begun to reopen while cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. One Georgia principal threatened “consequences” to those who shared images of the school, prompting Moore to create an email account for whistleblowers. […]
Students and faculty members at the University of Georgia staged an August 6 “die-in” protest in response to the school’s fall plans. (Screenshot: CBS46) Students at the University of Georgia staged a “die-in” demonstration — playing dead on the campus lawn — to protest the school’s August 20 opening plans. […]
Students and faculty members at the University of Georgia staged an August 6 “die-in” protest in response to the school’s fall plans. (Screenshot: CBS46) Students at the University of Georgia staged a “die-in” demonstration — playing dead on the campus lawn — to protest the school’s August 20 opening plans. […]
The Savannah native, a young Black child, is the youngest person in the state to die from the disease As the state of Georgia prepares to reopen schools, a 7-year-old boy has died from complications of coronavirus. The boy, from near Savannah, was Black. He is the youngest person in […]
Schools in Jefferson, Ga., will resume in-person learning on Friday without a mask mandate despite continual spikes in COVID-19 cases in the state. (Getty Images) Summer is far from over, but one small school system in Georgia is preparing to open its doors this week. Jefferson City Schools in Jefferson, […]
Jefferson High seniors Hope Terhune and Rylee Meadows, who started a petition drive calling for a mandatory mask rule, in Jefferson, Ga., an hour’s drive north of Atlanta, July 24, 2020. (Melissa Golden/The New York Times) JEFFERSON, Ga. — When Jennifer Fogle and her family moved from Indiana to Georgia […]
The University System of Georgia will now require face masks on campus as schools plan to welcome back students this fall. As COVID-19 cases continue to trend in the wrong direction, the USG says it will require students, faculty, staff and visitors to wear a face covering inside campus buildings. […]