Librarian named president of the Georgia Library Association executive board
Professor and Interlibrary Loan Librarian Fred Smith, was voted president of the Georgia Library Association (GLA) by members for 2018.
Statesboro Campus to celebrate Georgia’s Arbor Day Friday
Georgia Southern’s Center for Sustainability (CfS) and Division of Facilities Services will host a celebration in honor of Georgia’s Arbor Day on the University’s Statesboro Campus on Friday, Feb. 16 at 10 a.m.
Community organizers connect ideas to action plans for social change
Georgia Southern University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and TRIO – Student Support Services (SSS) collaborated with the MLK Jr. Observance Day Association Inc., to host the inaugural MLK Institute for Community and Social Change on Feb. 8-10 at the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.
Local organizers create Beloved Community in Bulloch County
“What can we do to keep Ferguson from happening here?” That was the question asked by a diverse group of people in Statesboro and Bulloch County who came together in 2015 around the issue of relations between law enforcement and some African-American communities. Their gathering was in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the uprising that followed.
Georgia Southern University’s Cookie Recipe Contest is open for submissions
Georgia Southern invites students to be a part of University history by submitting their original recipe for the Cookie Recipe Contest now through Feb. 28. The winning recipe will become the official cookie of Georgia Southern.
Chuck Nation Band to open for Georgia Southern Vocal Arts Festival series
As part of the Georgia Southern Department of Music and Campus Life Enrichment Committee’s semester-long Vocal Arts Festival, international performers and former Georgia Music Artist of the Year nominees, the Chuck Nation Band, will play a concert Saturday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Statesboro, Georgia.
College of Education professors’ book named as a selected read by Chronicle of Higher Education
The book, Promoting Social Justice through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, edited by Georgia Southern University’s College of Education Professors Delores Liston, Ph.D., and Regina Rahimi, Ed.D., was included in a January compilation of 10 ‘Selected New Books on Higher Education’ in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Georgia Southern University to highlight work of Master of Fine Arts candidates this semester
Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art (BFSDoArt) will host exhibits featuring the work of six Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates this semester at the Center for Art and Theatre on the Statesboro Campus.
University, local community reading of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ to raise funds for local sexual assault center
The Georgia Southern University chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) will host a reading of “The Vagina Monologues,” on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Russell Union Ballroom on the Statesboro Campus, to raise awareness and funds for the nonprofit organization, V-Day and the local nonprofit, the Statesboro Regional Sexual Assault Center (SRSAC).