Georgia Southern University’s online programs have again been recognized for excellence in rankings released by U.S. News & World Report for the best online programs among colleges and universities across the country for 2018.

When students Dylan John and Nipuna Ambanpola met, they never imagined they would form a partnership as Student Government Association (SGA) presidents of the same university in the United States a few years later. Despite attending rival high schools in Sri Lanka, the two are excited about the partnership they’ve formed to build a unified and strong student body across three campuses and the strides they are making to help other international students gain educational opportunities in America as they have had.

Civil rights activist, attorney and political commentator Bakari Sellers has been named the Georgia Southern University annual MLK Celebration speaker and will present on intersectional activism Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at 847 Plant Drive.
In November, Associate Professor of Communications and Africana Studies Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, received the National Communication Association’s 2017 Black Caucus Rex Crawley Outstanding Service Award.

In an effort to encourage dialogue among emerging artists from Georgia Southern University and Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, graduate students from both universities are participating in an art swap this year.

Georgia Southern University is one of only six locations across the state selected to host “Inspired Georgia,” a traveling photo exhibition sponsored by the Georgia Council for the Arts.

Georgia Southern’s newest academic program, EAGLE Academy, welcomed its first two students in fall 2017 as fully enrolled undergraduates. EAGLE Academy is an inclusive post-secondary education (IPSE) program offering the chance at a college education for those with mild intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

Ducks Unlimited (DU) announced in November the hiring of Georgia Southern alumnus Nick Wiley (‘83) as its new chief conservation officer, effective January 2018.

Jose Sanchez, a graduate student in the Georgia Southern Department of Biology, has been awarded a highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship to conduct ecological research in South America.
Today, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) granted final approval for the creation of two new institutions through consolidation. Georgia Southern University and Armstrong State University will be consolidated as the new Georgia Southern University. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and Bainbridge State College will be consolidated as the new Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC). The board approved resolutions making both consolidations effective Jan. 1, 2018.