Georgia State University is ranked the second most innovative university in the nation and second in the country for its commitment to undergraduate teaching in the 2019 Best Colleges edition of U.S. News & World Report magazine.
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For the sixth consecutive year, Georgia State University is first in the nation among not-for-profit colleges and universities in awarding bachelor’s degrees to African Americans, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Kenneth Heaghney, the state of Georgia’s fiscal economist, has been named the new director of Georgia State University’s Fiscal Research Center (FRC). Heaghney succeeds Sally Wallace, who had served in the position since 2011. She became dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in April.
Georgia State University has enrolled the largest freshman classes in its history this fall at the university’s downtown campus and the five campuses of Georgia State’s Perimeter College.
Students who pass one or more College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests in high school or college are more likely to earn a post-secondary degree, according to research published as a Georgia State University W.J. Usery Workplace Research Group working paper.
Wanda Lynn Riley, former chief audit and risk executive and director of audit and advisory services at the University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed director of university auditing and advisory services at Georgia State University.
Brennen Dicker, a film and video professional with 20 years of experience, has been named executive director of Georgia State University’s Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII).
Hainer Sibrian, an alumnus of the Honors College at Georgia State University, has received a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship.
Just as Georgia State had made undergraduate student success a key priority, proving that students from all backgrounds can succeed, the university is going even further.
Georgia State has established the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA) to help encourage and support students from underrepresented populations to enter advanced degree programs that can lead to academic and professional careers. These career paths can result in leadership positions in academia and other sectors.
