{"id":2995,"date":"2016-01-21T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/dev-mag\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2023-02-14T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:53:59","slug":"then-and-now-georgia-southern-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2016\/01\/21\/then-and-now-georgia-southern-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3053 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-1-315x441.jpg\" alt=\"SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-1\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-1-315x441.jpg 315w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-1-428x600.jpg 428w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-1.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><strong>1990<\/strong> Georgia Southern College officially became Georgia Southern University on July 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong> The 25th anniversary of Georgia Southern&#8217;s University status was celebrated during halftime of a football game this fall. Former President Nicholas Henry (below at right, with Interim President Jean E. Bartels and First Gentleman Terry Bartels) was recognized for his visionary leadership as the institution became&nbsp;a university.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3054 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-2-315x210.jpg\" alt=\"SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-2\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-2-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-2-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-2-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SPRINg16then-and-now-gs-2.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating University Status<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-up-front","tag-spring-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}