
Georgia Southern starting new teacher development program to increase the pool of available teachers
Georgia Southern University has been selected to be part of a new mentorship program that is designed to increase the pool of available teachers, especially teachers from a broader and more diverse background.

Georgia Southern University receives slew of high rankings in U.S. News best online program rankings
Georgia Southern University scores high in several categories of the U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Online Program rankings. Georgia Southern is among the nation’s leaders in offering quality education for online students as professors ensure students are ready for the real world.

Georgia Southern’s Henderson Library selected to host ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ traveling exhibit
Georgia Southern University’s Zach S. Henderson Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.

Georgia Southern University’s Urkovia Andrews, DrPH, receives national Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award
Georgia Southern University’s Assistant Director of Service-Learning Urkovia Andrews, DrPH, is this year’s recipient o the national Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award. This recognition is courtesy of Camus Compact, which is a network of colleges across the country dedicated to promoting and recognizing public work in higher education.

Georgia Southern hires professional guitarist and Broadway veteran to lead new music industry program
Georgia Southern has hired professional guitarist and composer Eric B. Davis as its inaugural Gretsch Distinguished Scholar of Guitar/Music Industry.

Author Alice Dreger, Ph.D., to guest lecture on Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus on Feb. 10
Author Alice Dreger, Ph.D., to guest lecture on Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus on Feb. 10.

Georgia Southern professor awarded grant, tests new technology to curb exposure to carcinogenic dust particles on construction sites
Some of the most dangerous contaminants aren’t visible to the naked eye, but Georgia Southern University researchers are working to protect construction workers from this invisible danger.

Georgia leaders to speak as part of Georgia Southern’s 2022 MLK Jr. commemorative events
Rev. Francys Johnson, J.D., (‘01) and Amir-Jamal Touré, J.D., will serve as speakers during Georgia Southern’s 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Dinners on Jan. 25 in Statesboro and Jan. 26 on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, respectively.