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Georgia Southern adopts temporary admission requirements for select students for fall 2022 semester

to Çï¿ûÊÓƵ for the fall 2022 semester can now be admitted without an ACT or SAT score if they have a high school GPA of 3.2 or higher. 

College of Education faculty travel to Çï¿ûÊÓƵ’s Ireland campus for exchange of ideas in advance of summer study abroad program

Six professors from Çï¿ûÊÓƵ’s College of Education (COE) recently broadened their horizons during a trip to Ireland as they learned from and shared insight with instructors and educational leaders in the Wexford County community.  

Community garden idea readies MPA students for career, earns first place in policy competition

Ikeoluwa Akanmu, Melinda Roell, Jennifer Morgan, William Golden

‘The Eagle Experience’ wins national award for excellence

‘The Eagle Experience,’ a collaborative cross-university effort to ensure new students’ successful transition into their college years, grabbed the attention of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and won a 2021-22 NASPA Excellence Bronze Award. 

Georgia Southern now one of nation’s Top Ten Military Friendly® Schools

Çï¿ûÊÓƵ has now earned a 2022-2023 Top Ten Military Friendly® distinction by Viqtory. Georgia Southern ranked at number nine on the Top Ten list. Being named a Military Friendly school is nothing new for Çï¿ûÊÓƵ, having earned a gold-level distinction for the past 10 years. 

High school students dive into public health, one of the nation’s top fields of study, at Georgia Southern institute this summer

In the wake of the pandemic there has been an explosion of interest in public health as a field of study in universities around the country.

In response, Georgia Southern’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health will host the inaugural Rising Scholars Public Health Summer Institute for high school juniors and seniors June 22–24 on the Statesboro Campus. The program will expose students to the breadth and depth of the public health discipline. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown coming to Çï¿ûÊÓƵ March 9-10

The Çï¿ûÊÓƵ Department of Literature will host Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and National Book Award Finalist, for two events on March 9-10. Both events are open to the public.

Local economic surge through year-end, states Georgia Southern’s Q4 Economic Monitor

Savannah metro area economy remained on a remarkable path of rebound growth as 2021 ended, according to Çï¿ûÊÓƵ’s latest Economic Monitor, which reflects Q4 2021.

Georgia Southern leads preservation efforts for a nearly endangered tree species

The Mexican oaks are a quickly-disappearing species of trees, and are sparse on this side of the southern border. In Mexico, many of the oaks are being torn down for agriculture and other deforestation efforts.

Hammond for Hope Scholarships uplift graduate students, hearing loss community

Receiving $10,000 and $5,000 Hammond for Hope Scholarships were life-changers for Kayla Pope and Caroline Davis, respectively, who are both second-year graduate students in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program at Çï¿ûÊÓƵ.