{"id":11925,"date":"2025-10-01T08:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=11925"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:06:05","slug":"news-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2025\/10\/01\/news-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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GEORGIA SOUTHERN
ACHIEVES RECORD ENROLLMENT
POST-CONSOLIDATION<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Georgia Southern University set several enrollment records according to the University System of Georgia. The University\u2019s official Fall 2024 total enrollment was 27,506, a 5.4% increase over Fall 2023, and the highest enrollment the University has recorded post-consolidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis record enrollment highlights the strength of our academic programs and the commitment of our faculty and staff to Georgia Southern\u2019s mission of preparing career-ready graduates to meet the talent and workforce needs of a growing region,\u201d said Georgia Southern President Kyle Marrero. Records set include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 46.5% increase in the total number of dual-enrollment students<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 3.6% increase in graduate student enrollment<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 12.6% increase in Honors College enrollment<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 28.1% increase in out-of-state student enrollment<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 9.6% increase in international student enrollment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cThis post-consolidation record enrollment reflects our commitment to expanding access to a Georgia Southern education and underscores the unwavering support we provide our students to help them persist, retain and graduate,\u201d said Executive Vice President for Enrollment, Marketing and Student Success Alejandra C. Sosa Pieroni, Ed.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    PROFESSOR NAMED TO
    GOVERNOR\u2019S COUNCIL OF
    ECONOMIC ADVISERS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Michael Toma, Ph.D., the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Economics in the Parker College of Business, has received a new honor. He has been appointed to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s Council of Economic Advisers. This council is made up mainly of economists within the University System of Georgia, along with the chief economist from Georgia Power. The group meets annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cIt\u2019s nice to be invited to join this council, informing the executive and legislative branches of government about economic conditions in the state of Georgia,\u201d said Toma. \u201cI know the southeastern part of the state, so it\u2019s nice to be recognized and be invited to speak about this region to a state-level audience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Toma is an expert in macroeconomics and regional economics, with a strong reputation in Savannah and the surrounding region. Since 2000, he has published The Economic Monitor, a quarterly report housed within Georgia Southern\u2019s Center for Business Analytics and Economic Research. The publication provides an economic analysis of the Savannah Metropolitan area, including Bryan, Chatham and Effingham counties, and is a resource for business owners across the Coastal Empire. Toma has been with Georgia Southern since 1997, when he joined the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    NEW BACHELOR\u2019S IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES DEBUTS THIS FALL<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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    There\u2019s a new option for Georgia Southern University students. Fall 2025, the College of Science and Mathematics (COSM) will offer a new bachelor\u2019s degree in biomedical sciences. COSM Dean Michael T. Huggins, Ph.D., shared his enthusiasm for how the program is designed. \u201cAn exciting aspect of the new program is how it has been tailored to prepare students for a wide breadth of jobs in the biomedical sciences while providing flexibility in their career paths,\u201d he said. \u201cStudents take courses that will satisfy requirements necessary to advance immediately from the bachelor\u2019s<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    degree to programs in medical, dental, physician assistant, pharmacy or veterinary schools.\u201d The curriculum includes courses on human anatomy and physiology to genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, nutrition and kinesiology. The degree will enable students to find jobs in education, research, sales or hospital and institutional work. The program is also designed to provide a streamlined curriculum to support students interested in pursuing medical school at the new Medical College of Georgia on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    GEORGIA SOUTHERNACHIEVES RECORD ENROLLMENTPOST-CONSOLIDATION Georgia Southern University set several enrollment records according to the University System of Georgia. The University\u2019s official Fall 2024 total enrollment was 27,506, a 5.4% increase over Fall 2023, and the highest enrollment the University has recorded post-consolidation. \u201cThis record enrollment highlights the strength of our academic programs and the commitment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":898,"featured_media":11928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-11925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-spring-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}