Enrollment Services offers Georgia Southern students central hub for student services
Enrollment Services, a central hub that is dedicated to helping students connect the dots when it comes to the enrollment process, now has two walk-up service centers at Georgia Southern University.
Scholarship honoring Bonds family announced for students pursuing degree in education
The Dr. Charles and Dr. Lella Bonds Scholarship, created in honor of two exceptional Georgia Southern University alumni and former members of the College of Education, is available to students pursuing degrees in education.
Georgia Southern counseling students seek donations to create calming kits for Bulloch County middle schoolers
The Georgia Southern University chapter of the Chi Sigma Iota, an international honor society for counseling professionals and students, is seeking donations to create care packages for middle school students that contain stress-coping strategies and materials.
Georgia Southern Alternative Breaks Program celebrating 15 years of issue-focused service
Since 2006, students at Georgia Southern University have been going on weeklong, immersive, issue-focused service experiences known as alternative breaks. Throughout the Alternative Breaks Program’s 15 years, participants like student Caleb Parker have helped communities overcome challenges while bettering themselves in the process.
Youth advocates to gather virtually for 2021 National Youth-at-Risk Conference
For the first time in its 32-year history, the National Youth-at-Risk (NYAR) Conference is going virtual. From March 8 to 10, the conference will provide resources and training for youth advocates, including teachers, administrators, therapists, community leaders, health professionals and social workers with the goal of creating safe, healthy, caring and intellectually empowering educational environments for the nation’s youth.
Georgia Southern hosts acclaimed author, professor and hip-hop scholar on March 4
Georgia Southern University will host a virtual discussion with acclaimed author, professor and hip-hop scholar Regina N. Bradley, Ph.D., on March 4 at 6 p.m. The event, sponsored by the Department of Literature, is open to the public.
Georgia Southern’s Marla Morris elected Fellow of Royal Society of Arts
Georgia Southern University professor Marla Morris, Ph.D., FRSA, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Awarded by the Royal Society of Arts, the prestigious fellowship is limited to individuals determined to have made outstanding achievements to social progress and development. Previous fellows of note include Stephen Hawking, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Marie Curie and Benjamin Franklin.
Parker College of Business students, faculty excel in virtual global competition
Many students have spent the last few semesters adjusting to virtual learning, but sales students in the Parker College of Business also spent the fall semester adjusting to communicating and making deals with a robot through the virtual RNMKRS College Sales Skills Competition.
Georgia Southern University Police Department applauded for exceeding training standards
The Georgia Southern University Police Department (UPD)continues to go above and beyond to ensure the University is a safe and better place to live and work. In an extraordinary achievement, a UPD group of 68 sworn employees – officers and dispatchers – completed 6,782 hours of training last year, averaging nearly 100 hours of training per officer.
Nearly 60% of Shirley Miller Scholarships Awarded to Georgia Southern University Students
The Zell Miller Foundation recently announced it awarded $50,000 in Shirley Miller Scholarships for the Spring 2021 semester to 127 HOPE Scholars at 13 public colleges and universities across Georgia. Of those 127 scholarships, 73 of them were awarded to Georgia Southern students, the most of any institution.