Georgia State University
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Georgia State University (GSU) is a research
university
in downtown Atlanta
, Georgia
, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia
's four research universities. Georgia State is the second largest of the 35 colleges and universities in the University System of Georgia.
The university offers 52 degrees in 250 fields of study with more than 1,000 faculty members. The university president is Mark P. Becker. The Robinson College of Business has more than 50,000 graduates. Tens of thousands have gone on to become business leaders, like these who did so nationally: Ken Lewis, Bank of America Chairman and CEO; Richard Lenny, former Hershey Foods CEO; Jim Copeland, retired Deloitte & Touche CEO; Bill Dahlberg, Southern Company former Chairman and CEO; J. Veronica Biggins
, Heidrick & Struggles senior partner; and Michael Gearon, Jr. a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks, Thrashers and Philips Arena. Georgia State’s campus occupies 34 acres (137,593.2 m²) of downtown Atlanta with 40 buildings. Future construction is on the drawing boards with numerous new projects. A multi-million dollar Science Park with laboratories and classrooms recently opened next to the Sports Arena.
The school’s coat of arms (right) is registered in the College of
Arms in London. The Latin motto means “Truth is strong and will
conquer” (or alternatively, "Truth is valuable and shall overcome"). The panther holds the symbol of education, with the quill
in red to symbolize the fire in Atlanta’s city emblem. The gold coin
indicates the university’s beginnings as a business school. The crown
is a representation of the Stone Mountain granite. The center flame
is an eternal flame in honor of the first president, George Sparks, and
represents flames of scholarship and the burning of Atlanta.
Georgia State has the largest campus police department of any school in Georgia with more
than 100 employees who secure student safety 365 days a year. The force is the only nationally and state
certified police force among the universities in Georgia. The school uses video surveillance, call stations, and escort
systems to ensure student safety.
"Evening School of Commerce." The school focused on what was called "the new science of business." A reorganization of the University System of Georgia in the 1930s led to the school becoming the "Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia" and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the University System. During this time, the school had two informal names: "Georgia Evening College," which granted business degrees, and "Atlanta Junior College." In September 1947, the school became affiliated with the University of Georgia
and was named the "Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia." The school received its independence in 1955 and became the "Georgia State College of Business Administration." In 1961, other programs at the school had grown large enough that the name was shortened to "Georgia State College." It became Georgia State University in 1969.
In 1995, the State Board of Regents accorded Georgia State "research university" status, joining the Georgia Institute of Technology
, the University of Georgia
, and the Medical College of Georgia
. Georgia State is in the heart of activity of downtown Atlanta. The Sports Arena and center campus are less than a half-mile from CNN Center, Centennial Olympic Park, Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome. The campus intersects Peachtree Street
, the main street of Atlanta. The first female chairman, president and CEO to ever ring the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell when she did so in 1998, was Georgia State alum M. Christine Jacobs of Georgia-based Theragenics Corporation.
The first African-American student enrolled at Georgia State 46 years ago in 1962. Annette Lucille Hall was a Lithonia social studies teacher who enrolled in the course of the Institute on Americanism and Communism, a course required for all Georgia social studies teachers.
Georgia State has made several firsts in the field of scientific research: it hosts a laboratory designated biosafety level 4, which is the highest level of containment. In level 4 facilities, researchers can safely work with deadly agents such as Ebola
, hantavirus
or, in the case of Georgia State scientists, the herpes B virus
. Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA
) operates one of the world’s most powerful optical stellar interferometers
on top of Mt. Wilson, California; in 2007 this telescope array became the first to actually image the surface of another sunlike star.
The Peachtree Road Race
, the world’s most famous 10-kilometer run, was started by Georgia State crosscountry coach and dean of men Tim Singleton. The “father of the Peachtree” headed it the first six years before turning it over to the Atlanta Track Club by using volunteers from Georgia State’s fraternities and sororities. He marked the first race with cooking flour to indicate mileage and charged a $2 entry fee. The second year, he created the first valuable collectible T-shirt. Many Georgia State faculty and students assisted in the early races, and several Georgia State runners have won or finished in the Top 10.
(1973), and the twelve-story Urban Life Building (1974). In addition, a raised plaza and walkway system was constructed to connect these buildings with each other over Decatur Street and parking structures.
was founded in the Urban Life Building, and the Title Building on Decatur Street was acquired and converted into the College of Education's headquarters and classroom space. In 1988, the nine-story Library South was constructed on the south side of Decatur Street, which was connected to the Pullen Library via a three-story high foot bridge (officially referred to as a "link") and effectively doubled the library's space. The University Center was expanded in 1989 to include the University Bookstore Building, which also houses the Auxiliary Services Department.
Building on Marietta Street in 1993, which is now the home of the Robinson College of Business. Georgia State's first move into the Fairlie-Poplar
district was the acquisition and renovation of the Standard Building, the Haas-Howell Building, and the Rialto Theater in 1996. The Standard and Haas-Howell buildings house classrooms, offices, and practice spaces for the School of Music, and the Rialto is home to GSU's Jazz Studies program and an 833-seat theater. In 1998, the Student Center was expanded toward Gilmer Street and provided a new 400-seat auditorium and space for exhibitions and offices for student clubs. A new Student Recreation Center opened on the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Gilmer Street in 2001. In 2002, the five-story high Helen M. Aderhold Learning Center opened on Luckie Street amid controversy over the demolition of historical buildings on its block. Most recently, in 2004, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was moved to the former Wachovia Bank Building at Five Points.
The university has announced an expansion of their Alpharetta campus to include more classrooms and collaboration spaces, with work beginning heavily in 2010. The university will add more than a dozen major new structures as it tries to accommodate an extra 10,000 full-time students projected to flow onto campus by 2015. Several of those buildings, such as new on-campus student and Greek housing, a new convocation hall and an expanded athletic center, were included in GSU's new 10-year master plan with undergraduates in mind.
By 2015, the university is expected to need about 1 million additional square feet of classroom, laboratory and other academic space for a total of 50,000 students, 36,000 of whom will attend full time. Even the massive expansion will probably only meet about half that need, Patton said, although it should reduce GSU's dependence on leased space. Two existing buildings in the heart of the campus will be razed and replaced with larger structures, including a new humanities center, which will join an updated library to form the university's new central hub. GSU's buildout — which calls for nearly twice the dollar amount of new projects it completed over the previous decade — means the university is finally poised for a wave of new construction like that seen at The University of Georgia
and Georgia Tech. The university is hemmed in by the Downtown Connector to the east, the Fairlie-Poplar district to the west and the government district to the south, so many of the new buildings will be built in the area immediately north, which includes part of the Sweet Auburn district. A key component of this expansion will be the new building for GSU's business school, set to open in 2015. The new business school will be located on property on the corner of John Wesley Dobbs and Park Place, just a few blocks from the business school's current location off of Marietta Street.
were held in Atlanta, Georgia State acquired the 2,000-bed Olympic Village housing complex located at the southeast corner of Centennial Olympic Park Drive (formerly Techwood Drive) and North Avenue
that was used to board Olympic athletes during the Games. In August 2002, the 450-bed University Lofts opened at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland Street on the northeast side of campus as housing for graduate students, undergraduates over the age of twenty-one, and honors students. As of Spring 2011, Georgia State's housing system has a capacity of approximately 3300 beds.
On August 10, 2007, Georgia State opened the University Commons, a $
165 million complex housing 1,992 students, occupying a city block bounded by Ellis Street, Piedmont Avenue, John Wesley Dobbs Avenue and Jesse Hill Jr. Drive. A GSU economics professor estimated the new dorm could have an economic impact of $10–12 million on downtown Atlanta
. The university plans to ultimately accommodate 20% of its enrollment in housing near the downtown campus. With the planned opening of University Commons, it was announced on March 7, 2007 that the Georgia Institute of Technology
was acquiring the Olympic Village housing, which is located across North Avenue from the Institute.
In the fall of 2009, Georgia State opened a 350-bed residence hall exclusively for freshman students. Located on the corner of Piedmont and Edgewood Avenues, Freshman Hall (as it is called) is conveniently located in close proximity to the heart of the GSU campus. One notable feature in the Freshman Hall is Georgia State's first cafeteria-style dining facility. This dining hall is open to all GSU students who have purchased the meal plan and features a wide assortment of food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Additionally, other members of the GSU community and guests are welcome to purchase meals on an individual basis.
For the 2010 academic year, Georgia State opened its Greek Housing facility, located adjacent to Freshman Hall on Edgewood Avenue. Each townhome in the complex features a chapter room, kitchen, and bedrooms. Also included in the complex is a community laundry facility.
Most recently, following its plan for expansion, Georgia State acquired two hotels in downtown Atlanta, the Wyndham Garden Hotel and Baymont Inn and Suites on Piedmont Avenue. The hotels and grounds are in the process of being renovated and changed into dorms, contributing to the university's transformation into a 24/7 community in the heart of the city. The complex will, upon completion, include living and study space for nearly 1,000 students, as well as greenspace, recreational areas, and a brand new 12000 square feet (1,114.8 m²) dining hall.
To cope with changes in its student population, the fastest growing one in the University System of Georgia, Georgia State is pursuing increased expansion through the potential acquisition or construction of buildings in the downtown Atlanta area.
Georgia State has Eight college-level units:
Georgia State University makes notable contributions to the cultural vitality of the downtown Atlanta community. A prominent cultural stage is the Rialto Center for the Arts, an 833-seat performing-arts venue located in the heart of the Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta. The venue is home to the Rialto Series, presenting the best of national and international jazz, world music, and dance; School of Music performances; the Atlanta Film Festival, and many others. The School of Music holds concerts featuring faculty, students, and guest performers in the Kopleff Recital Hall throughout the year. In addition, the university's Art Galleries, based in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, feature special exhibitions, student and faculty works, and visiting artist collections.
In 2010, Georgia State University established its first ever Marching Band. The marching band began its inaugural season in the fall of 2010. The band enjoyed unprecedented success in its first season. 150 students exceeded School of Music expectation and successfully auditioned for the band and established traditions of excellence in musicality and dedication. In its first year, the band performed at all home football games, a high school marching band exhibition, and (most notably) during the Georgia State vs. Alabama football game on November 18th, 2010, in Tuscaloosa. The band is a drum corps style unit that focuses on precision musicality and movement. Like most ensembles, the band features a colorguard section, but in a departure from typical marching bands, the traditional auxiliary front sideline percussion section, or pit, has been replaced by a four-piece rock band consisting of a lead guitar, bass guitar, drum set, and keyboard synthesizer.
The Digital Arts and Entertainment Laboratory (DAEL), housed in the Department of Communication, offers a full range of equipment and facilities for digital media research and production. It also includes state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for producing and manipulating extraordinarily high quality moving images. In addition, DAEL provides state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for assessing audience responses to film, television, computer animation, and interactive media.
Georgia State University operates Cinefest Film Theatre, a student-run movie theater in the school's University Center. Cinefest exhibits a wide array of motion pictures including international cinema, art house films, revival house movies, and second-run Hollywood fare. It has played host to various special events including screening films for The Atlanta Underground Film Festival and DragonCon.
The university is home to Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art, which has grown to national prominence since it first began publication over a decade ago.
Georgia State houses three university libraries. Additionally, many academic departments provide libraries for their students. The University Library (also known as the William Russell Pullen Library, housed in Library North and Library South) contains more than 1.4 million volumes, including 8,000 active serials and nearly 22,000 media materials. The library provides access to numerous electronic periodical and resource indexes (many with full text), more than14,000 electronic journals, and about 30,000 electronic books. It is also a Federal Document Depository and holds more than 820,000 government documents with electronic access to many additional titles.
Faculty in the university's College of Arts and Sciences are making new important discoveries in a wide range of fields, from biotechnology to aging, from stellar astronomy to language acquisition, and from international development to the digital arts and media — to name but a few. The excellence of these programs has attracted high levels of funding from prominent government agencies, private foundations, and industry partners.
METI Man, a robot on campus, breathes, blinks and speaks. He is a computer-driven, life-sized mannequin with a pulse that nursing students practice procedures with. The robot mirrors human responses to medical procedures and will even “die” if a student does something wrong.
On August 31, 2006, it was announced that Georgia State would be participating in a supercomputing grid with the installation of an IBM P575 Supercomputer in its Network Operations Center
. Through an initiative known as SURAGrid, eventually 24 universities in 15 states throughout the Southeast United States will form the research backbone and at its peak, the network will be able to perform over 10 trillion calculations per second.
Georgia State moved into the 12-member Colonial Athletic Association
(CAA) on July 1, 2005. The CAA receives automatic bids to all NCAA Championship Tournaments. Georgia State has already won four CAA Championships in its first three years.
starting in 2010. The school would compete in the Colonial Athletic Association
, with home games at the 71,228 seat Georgia Dome
; the school has built a practice field and training facilities, both a few blocks away from campus. On June 12, 2008, Georgia State announced that Bill Curry
would become the University's first head football coach. Georgia State earned a 41-7 victory against Shorter University in its inaugural game on September 2, 2010, with 30,237 fans in attendance, which surpassed the university's estimate of 25,000.
Georgia State Fight Song
Fight Panthers to victory
Our voices yell
You'll hear us mighty and strong
We're from the ATL
We're gonna give them hell
Fight Panthers to victory
Drive on for the score
Blue - White
Georgia State is in the fight
G-S-U, G-S-U, G-A S-T-A-T-E
In order to fund the Georgia State University football team and marching band, GSU has implemented a fee to each student that enrolls at the school (called the "Athletic Fee"). The fee is currently $263 and is charged every semester along with other academic fees. That totals to almost $20 million a year.
(IFC), five of the National Panhellenic Conference
(NPC), seven of the National Pan-Hellenic Council
(NPHC), and seven multicultural organizations operating as the Multicultural Greek Council https://www.facebook.com/groups/116602535063953/ (MGC). Greek life is continually growing at Georgia State with future expectations of a dramatic increase in membership with the opening of on-campus Greek housing.
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
university
University
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in downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is the first and largest of the three financial districts in the city of Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters, city, county, state and federal government facilities, sporting facilities, and is the central tourist attraction of the city...
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia
University System of Georgia
The University System of Georgia is the organizational body that includes 35 public institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Georgia. The System is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents. It sets goals and dictates general policy to educational institutions as well as administering...
's four research universities. Georgia State is the second largest of the 35 colleges and universities in the University System of Georgia.
The university offers 52 degrees in 250 fields of study with more than 1,000 faculty members. The university president is Mark P. Becker. The Robinson College of Business has more than 50,000 graduates. Tens of thousands have gone on to become business leaders, like these who did so nationally: Ken Lewis, Bank of America Chairman and CEO; Richard Lenny, former Hershey Foods CEO; Jim Copeland, retired Deloitte & Touche CEO; Bill Dahlberg, Southern Company former Chairman and CEO; J. Veronica Biggins
J. Veronica Biggins
J. Veronica Biggins Former Managing Partner of Diversity and Senior Partner at Heidrick & Struggles. Biggins currently serves on the Board of Directors for AirTran Airways and is a Partner with Hodge, Niederer, Cariani & Lindsay ....
, Heidrick & Struggles senior partner; and Michael Gearon, Jr. a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks, Thrashers and Philips Arena. Georgia State’s campus occupies 34 acres (137,593.2 m²) of downtown Atlanta with 40 buildings. Future construction is on the drawing boards with numerous new projects. A multi-million dollar Science Park with laboratories and classrooms recently opened next to the Sports Arena.
The school’s coat of arms (right) is registered in the College of
Arms in London. The Latin motto means “Truth is strong and will
conquer” (or alternatively, "Truth is valuable and shall overcome"). The panther holds the symbol of education, with the quill
in red to symbolize the fire in Atlanta’s city emblem. The gold coin
indicates the university’s beginnings as a business school. The crown
is a representation of the Stone Mountain granite. The center flame
is an eternal flame in honor of the first president, George Sparks, and
represents flames of scholarship and the burning of Atlanta.
Georgia State has the largest campus police department of any school in Georgia with more
than 100 employees who secure student safety 365 days a year. The force is the only nationally and state
certified police force among the universities in Georgia. The school uses video surveillance, call stations, and escort
systems to ensure student safety.
History
Georgia State University was established in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology'sGeorgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
"Evening School of Commerce." The school focused on what was called "the new science of business." A reorganization of the University System of Georgia in the 1930s led to the school becoming the "Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia" and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the University System. During this time, the school had two informal names: "Georgia Evening College," which granted business degrees, and "Atlanta Junior College." In September 1947, the school became affiliated with the University of Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
and was named the "Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia." The school received its independence in 1955 and became the "Georgia State College of Business Administration." In 1961, other programs at the school had grown large enough that the name was shortened to "Georgia State College." It became Georgia State University in 1969.
In 1995, the State Board of Regents accorded Georgia State "research university" status, joining the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
, the University of Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
, and the Medical College of Georgia
Medical College of Georgia
Georgia Health Sciences University formerly known as, and now home of the, Medical College of Georgia , is a public academic health center, with its main campus located in the Medical District of Augusta, Georgia. It is the smallest of four research universities in the University System of Georgia...
. Georgia State is in the heart of activity of downtown Atlanta. The Sports Arena and center campus are less than a half-mile from CNN Center, Centennial Olympic Park, Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome. The campus intersects Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street
Peachtree Street is the main street of Atlanta. The city grew up around the street, and many of its historical and municipal buildings are or were located along it...
, the main street of Atlanta. The first female chairman, president and CEO to ever ring the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell when she did so in 1998, was Georgia State alum M. Christine Jacobs of Georgia-based Theragenics Corporation.
Georgia State has made several firsts in the field of scientific research: it hosts a laboratory designated biosafety level 4, which is the highest level of containment. In level 4 facilities, researchers can safely work with deadly agents such as Ebola
Ebola
Ebola virus disease is the name for the human disease which may be caused by any of the four known ebolaviruses. These four viruses are: Bundibugyo virus , Ebola virus , Sudan virus , and Taï Forest virus...
, hantavirus
Hantavirus
Hantaviruses are negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family. Humans may be infected with hantaviruses through rodent bites, urine, saliva or contact with rodent waste products...
or, in the case of Georgia State scientists, the herpes B virus
Herpes B Virus
Herpes Simian B virus is the endemic simplexvirus of macaque monkeys. B virus is an alphaherpesvirus, which consists of a subset of herpesviruses that travel within hosts using the peripheral nerves...
. Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA
CHARA array
The CHARA Array is an optical astronomical interferometer operated by The Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy of the Georgia State University . CHARA is the World's highest angular resolution telescope at near-infrared wavelengths...
) operates one of the world’s most powerful optical stellar interferometers
Astronomical interferometer
An astronomical interferometer is an array of telescopes or mirror segments acting together to probe structures with higher resolution by means of interferometry....
on top of Mt. Wilson, California; in 2007 this telescope array became the first to actually image the surface of another sunlike star.
The Peachtree Road Race
Peachtree Road Race
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race 10K is a 10 kilometer road race held annually in Atlanta, Georgia on July 4, Independence Day. The Peachtree Road Race was until recently the world's largest 10 kilometer race , a title it has held since the late 1970s...
, the world’s most famous 10-kilometer run, was started by Georgia State crosscountry coach and dean of men Tim Singleton. The “father of the Peachtree” headed it the first six years before turning it over to the Atlanta Track Club by using volunteers from Georgia State’s fraternities and sororities. He marked the first race with cooking flour to indicate mileage and charged a $2 entry fee. The second year, he created the first valuable collectible T-shirt. Many Georgia State faculty and students assisted in the early races, and several Georgia State runners have won or finished in the Top 10.
1913–1975
Over its 90-plus year history, Georgia State's growth has required the acquisition and construction of more space to suit its needs. During the late 1960s/early 1970s, numerous buildings were constructed as part of a major urban renewal project, such as the Pullen Library (1966), Classroom South (1968), the expansion of the Pullen Library in 1968, the Arts and Humanities Building (1970), the ten-story General Classroom Building (1971), the Sports ArenaGSU Sports Arena
The Georgia State University Sports Arena is an indoor arena located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the home of the basketball teams of Georgia State University and hosted the badminton competition of the 1996 Summer Olympics. Georgia State's women's volleyball team uses the facility as...
(1973), and the twelve-story Urban Life Building (1974). In addition, a raised plaza and walkway system was constructed to connect these buildings with each other over Decatur Street and parking structures.
1980–1989
In the 1980s, another round of expansion took place with the acquisition of the former Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in 1979, which was subsequently converted into Alumni Hall in 1982, and currently houses Georgia State's administrative offices. That same year, the College of LawGeorgia State University College of Law
The Georgia State University College of Law is an urban law school located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1982, is it accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools....
was founded in the Urban Life Building, and the Title Building on Decatur Street was acquired and converted into the College of Education's headquarters and classroom space. In 1988, the nine-story Library South was constructed on the south side of Decatur Street, which was connected to the Pullen Library via a three-story high foot bridge (officially referred to as a "link") and effectively doubled the library's space. The University Center was expanded in 1989 to include the University Bookstore Building, which also houses the Auxiliary Services Department.
1990–2004
Georgia State continued this growth into the 1990s, with the expansion of Alumni Hall in 1991, the opening of the Natural Science Center in 1992, and the acquisition of the former C&S BankCitizens & Southern National Bank
Citizens and Southern National Bank began as a Georgia institution that expanded into South Carolina, Florida and into other states via mergers. C&S became part of NationsBank in 1991 when NationsBank bought newly merged C&S/Sovran...
Building on Marietta Street in 1993, which is now the home of the Robinson College of Business. Georgia State's first move into the Fairlie-Poplar
Fairlie-Poplar
The Fairlie-Poplar Historic District is part of the central business district in downtown Atlanta. It is named for the two streets that cross at its center, northeast-only Fairlie and southeast-only Poplar. Fairlie-Poplar is immediately north of Five Points, the definitive centerpoint and...
district was the acquisition and renovation of the Standard Building, the Haas-Howell Building, and the Rialto Theater in 1996. The Standard and Haas-Howell buildings house classrooms, offices, and practice spaces for the School of Music, and the Rialto is home to GSU's Jazz Studies program and an 833-seat theater. In 1998, the Student Center was expanded toward Gilmer Street and provided a new 400-seat auditorium and space for exhibitions and offices for student clubs. A new Student Recreation Center opened on the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Gilmer Street in 2001. In 2002, the five-story high Helen M. Aderhold Learning Center opened on Luckie Street amid controversy over the demolition of historical buildings on its block. Most recently, in 2004, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was moved to the former Wachovia Bank Building at Five Points.
2005–today
In 2006, the University announced a $1 billion campus expansion that will add over a dozen new buildings, including a new convocation center, science research park, new buildings for the schools of business and law, a new humanities building, and an expanded student recreation center. Streetscape improvements are also included, such as improvements to Decatur Street and Piedmont Avenue, and dropping raised walkways to street level. Sparks and Kell Halls will be torn down, with Sparks being torn down first to make way for the new humanities building. Many projects are already underway, with a $20 million refurbishment to the Pullen Library complex completed during the 2006-07 school year.The university has announced an expansion of their Alpharetta campus to include more classrooms and collaboration spaces, with work beginning heavily in 2010. The university will add more than a dozen major new structures as it tries to accommodate an extra 10,000 full-time students projected to flow onto campus by 2015. Several of those buildings, such as new on-campus student and Greek housing, a new convocation hall and an expanded athletic center, were included in GSU's new 10-year master plan with undergraduates in mind.
By 2015, the university is expected to need about 1 million additional square feet of classroom, laboratory and other academic space for a total of 50,000 students, 36,000 of whom will attend full time. Even the massive expansion will probably only meet about half that need, Patton said, although it should reduce GSU's dependence on leased space. Two existing buildings in the heart of the campus will be razed and replaced with larger structures, including a new humanities center, which will join an updated library to form the university's new central hub. GSU's buildout — which calls for nearly twice the dollar amount of new projects it completed over the previous decade — means the university is finally poised for a wave of new construction like that seen at The University of Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
and Georgia Tech. The university is hemmed in by the Downtown Connector to the east, the Fairlie-Poplar district to the west and the government district to the south, so many of the new buildings will be built in the area immediately north, which includes part of the Sweet Auburn district. A key component of this expansion will be the new building for GSU's business school, set to open in 2015. The new business school will be located on property on the corner of John Wesley Dobbs and Park Place, just a few blocks from the business school's current location off of Marietta Street.
Housing
For much of its history, Georgia State was a commuter school with no on-campus or university-owned housing. After the 1996 Summer Olympics1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....
were held in Atlanta, Georgia State acquired the 2,000-bed Olympic Village housing complex located at the southeast corner of Centennial Olympic Park Drive (formerly Techwood Drive) and North Avenue
North Avenue (Atlanta)
North Avenue in Atlanta is a major avenue in Atlanta that divides Downtown Atlanta from Midtown Atlanta. North Avenue stretches continuously in Atlanta from Candler Park in the east, across Interstate 75 & Interstate 85, along the southern boundary of the Georgia Institute of Technology, to Joseph E...
that was used to board Olympic athletes during the Games. In August 2002, the 450-bed University Lofts opened at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland Street on the northeast side of campus as housing for graduate students, undergraduates over the age of twenty-one, and honors students. As of Spring 2011, Georgia State's housing system has a capacity of approximately 3300 beds.
On August 10, 2007, Georgia State opened the University Commons, a $
United States dollar
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165 million complex housing 1,992 students, occupying a city block bounded by Ellis Street, Piedmont Avenue, John Wesley Dobbs Avenue and Jesse Hill Jr. Drive. A GSU economics professor estimated the new dorm could have an economic impact of $10–12 million on downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is the first and largest of the three financial districts in the city of Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters, city, county, state and federal government facilities, sporting facilities, and is the central tourist attraction of the city...
. The university plans to ultimately accommodate 20% of its enrollment in housing near the downtown campus. With the planned opening of University Commons, it was announced on March 7, 2007 that the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
was acquiring the Olympic Village housing, which is located across North Avenue from the Institute.
In the fall of 2009, Georgia State opened a 350-bed residence hall exclusively for freshman students. Located on the corner of Piedmont and Edgewood Avenues, Freshman Hall (as it is called) is conveniently located in close proximity to the heart of the GSU campus. One notable feature in the Freshman Hall is Georgia State's first cafeteria-style dining facility. This dining hall is open to all GSU students who have purchased the meal plan and features a wide assortment of food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Additionally, other members of the GSU community and guests are welcome to purchase meals on an individual basis.
For the 2010 academic year, Georgia State opened its Greek Housing facility, located adjacent to Freshman Hall on Edgewood Avenue. Each townhome in the complex features a chapter room, kitchen, and bedrooms. Also included in the complex is a community laundry facility.
Most recently, following its plan for expansion, Georgia State acquired two hotels in downtown Atlanta, the Wyndham Garden Hotel and Baymont Inn and Suites on Piedmont Avenue. The hotels and grounds are in the process of being renovated and changed into dorms, contributing to the university's transformation into a 24/7 community in the heart of the city. The complex will, upon completion, include living and study space for nearly 1,000 students, as well as greenspace, recreational areas, and a brand new 12000 square feet (1,114.8 m²) dining hall.
To cope with changes in its student population, the fastest growing one in the University System of Georgia, Georgia State is pursuing increased expansion through the potential acquisition or construction of buildings in the downtown Atlanta area.
Campus Transportation
Georgia State's campus transportation system, referred to as "Panther Express", has routes running between various points on campus as well as a route connecting the main campus to the Blue Lot of Turner Field, where GSU students may park for free during days on which the Atlanta Braves are not playing a game at home. On campus, Georgia State owns and maintains approximately 5,000 parking spaces for use by faculty, staff, students, and visitors (recall that over 30,000 students attend the school). Commuting students, faculty and staff may also ride MARTA to and from the university. There are three MARTA train stations convenient to GSU. The Georgia State MARTA station is located a short distance from the Sports Arena and other main campus buildings, while the Five Point MARTA station is only blocks away from the Fairlie-Poplar district, where the Aderhold Learning Center and School of Music buildings are located. The Peachtree Center MARTA station is located a few blocks north of the Fairlie-Poplar district, Aderhold, and the School of Music. In addition to the MARTA rail stations, numerous MARTA bus stops are scattered about in various locations on and around campus.Georgia State college-level units
- Andrew Young School of Policy StudiesAndrew Young School of Policy StudiesThe Andrew Young School of Policy Studies is located within Georgia State University. The school houses the Criminal Justice, Economics, Social Work and Public Management and Policy divisions of the second largest school in the state of Georgia.In 2008, U.S...
- College of Arts & Sciences
- Honors College
- Institute of Public Health
- College of Education
- Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professionals
- Georgia State University College of LawGeorgia State University College of LawThe Georgia State University College of Law is an urban law school located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1982, is it accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools....
- J. Mack Robinson College of BusinessJ. Mack Robinson College of BusinessThe J. Mack Robinson College of Business is one of the six colleges at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Robinson’s offerings include a Flex M.B.A., Professional M.B.A., Executive M.B.A., Specialized Master's programs, and undergraduate program....
Student media
There are four student-run media organizations:- The Signal, weekly newspaper
- GSTV, closed-circuit television (active after long hiatus)
- WRAS-FM (Album 88) radio, with the highest power (100,000 watts) of any college radio station in the USA
- New South, literary journal
Arts
In 2010, Georgia State University established its first ever Marching Band. The marching band began its inaugural season in the fall of 2010. The band enjoyed unprecedented success in its first season. 150 students exceeded School of Music expectation and successfully auditioned for the band and established traditions of excellence in musicality and dedication. In its first year, the band performed at all home football games, a high school marching band exhibition, and (most notably) during the Georgia State vs. Alabama football game on November 18th, 2010, in Tuscaloosa. The band is a drum corps style unit that focuses on precision musicality and movement. Like most ensembles, the band features a colorguard section, but in a departure from typical marching bands, the traditional auxiliary front sideline percussion section, or pit, has been replaced by a four-piece rock band consisting of a lead guitar, bass guitar, drum set, and keyboard synthesizer.
The Digital Arts and Entertainment Laboratory (DAEL), housed in the Department of Communication, offers a full range of equipment and facilities for digital media research and production. It also includes state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for producing and manipulating extraordinarily high quality moving images. In addition, DAEL provides state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for assessing audience responses to film, television, computer animation, and interactive media.
Georgia State University operates Cinefest Film Theatre, a student-run movie theater in the school's University Center. Cinefest exhibits a wide array of motion pictures including international cinema, art house films, revival house movies, and second-run Hollywood fare. It has played host to various special events including screening films for The Atlanta Underground Film Festival and DragonCon.
The university is home to Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art, which has grown to national prominence since it first began publication over a decade ago.
Research
More than 250 fields of study are offered through some 52 accredited degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, specialist, and doctoral levels. Students may enroll in day or evening classes and in part-time or full-time study. It is also on the list of the top 100 public universities for doctoral degrees awarded.Georgia State houses three university libraries. Additionally, many academic departments provide libraries for their students. The University Library (also known as the William Russell Pullen Library, housed in Library North and Library South) contains more than 1.4 million volumes, including 8,000 active serials and nearly 22,000 media materials. The library provides access to numerous electronic periodical and resource indexes (many with full text), more than14,000 electronic journals, and about 30,000 electronic books. It is also a Federal Document Depository and holds more than 820,000 government documents with electronic access to many additional titles.
Faculty in the university's College of Arts and Sciences are making new important discoveries in a wide range of fields, from biotechnology to aging, from stellar astronomy to language acquisition, and from international development to the digital arts and media — to name but a few. The excellence of these programs has attracted high levels of funding from prominent government agencies, private foundations, and industry partners.
METI Man, a robot on campus, breathes, blinks and speaks. He is a computer-driven, life-sized mannequin with a pulse that nursing students practice procedures with. The robot mirrors human responses to medical procedures and will even “die” if a student does something wrong.
On August 31, 2006, it was announced that Georgia State would be participating in a supercomputing grid with the installation of an IBM P575 Supercomputer in its Network Operations Center
Network Operations Center
A network operations center is one or more locations from which control is exercised over a computer, television broadcast, or telecommunications network....
. Through an initiative known as SURAGrid, eventually 24 universities in 15 states throughout the Southeast United States will form the research backbone and at its peak, the network will be able to perform over 10 trillion calculations per second.
Athletics
Georgia State currently sponsors 17 NCAA Division I teams.Georgia State University competes with 16 teams in an athletics program at the highest level of NCAA competition (Division I). Football and women's sand volleyball will be added during the 2010-2011 school year.Georgia State moved into the 12-member Colonial Athletic Association
Colonial Athletic Association
The Colonial Athletic Association is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. Most of its members are public universities, with five in Virginia alone, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond,...
(CAA) on July 1, 2005. The CAA receives automatic bids to all NCAA Championship Tournaments. Georgia State has already won four CAA Championships in its first three years.
Football
On April 17, 2008, Georgia State officially announced that Panthers would play Division I FCS college footballCollege football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
starting in 2010. The school would compete in the Colonial Athletic Association
Colonial Athletic Association
The Colonial Athletic Association is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. Most of its members are public universities, with five in Virginia alone, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond,...
, with home games at the 71,228 seat Georgia Dome
Georgia Dome
The Georgia Dome is a domed stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, between downtown to the east and Vine City to the west. It is primarily the home stadium for the NFL Atlanta Falcons and the NCAA Division I FCS Georgia State Panthers football team. It is owned and operated by the...
; the school has built a practice field and training facilities, both a few blocks away from campus. On June 12, 2008, Georgia State announced that Bill Curry
Bill Curry
William Alexander "Bill" Curry is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head coach at Georgia State University, which began competing in college football in 2010...
would become the University's first head football coach. Georgia State earned a 41-7 victory against Shorter University in its inaugural game on September 2, 2010, with 30,237 fans in attendance, which surpassed the university's estimate of 25,000.
Georgia State Fight Song
Fight Panthers to victory
Our voices yell
You'll hear us mighty and strong
We're from the ATL
We're gonna give them hell
Fight Panthers to victory
Drive on for the score
Blue - White
Georgia State is in the fight
G-S-U, G-S-U, G-A S-T-A-T-E
In order to fund the Georgia State University football team and marching band, GSU has implemented a fee to each student that enrolls at the school (called the "Athletic Fee"). The fee is currently $263 and is charged every semester along with other academic fees. That totals to almost $20 million a year.
Greek life
Georgia State University is home to twenty-four fraternities and sororities: five of the North-American Interfraternity ConferenceNorth-American Interfraternity Conference
The North-American Interfraternity Conference , is an association of collegiate men's fraternities that was formally organized in 1910, although it began on November 27, 1909. The power of the organization rests in a House of Delegates where each member fraternity is represented by a single delegate...
(IFC), five of the National Panhellenic Conference
National Panhellenic Conference
The National Panhellenic Conference , founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 national women's sororities.Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae...
(NPC), seven of the National Pan-Hellenic Council
National Pan-Hellenic Council
The National Pan-Hellenic Council is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities. The nine NPHC organizations are sometimes collectively referred to as the "Divine Nine"...
(NPHC), and seven multicultural organizations operating as the Multicultural Greek Council https://www.facebook.com/groups/116602535063953/ (MGC). Greek life is continually growing at Georgia State with future expectations of a dramatic increase in membership with the opening of on-campus Greek housing.
MGC
- ΓΣΣ Gamma Sigma SigmaGamma Sigma SigmaGamma Sigma Sigma is a national service sorority founded in October 1952 at Beekman Tower in New York City by representatives of Boston University, Brooklyn College, Drexel Institute of Technology, Los Angeles City College, New York University, Queens College, and the University of Houston. ...
- ΔΦΛ Delta Phi LambdaDelta Phi LambdaDelta Phi Lambda is an Asian-interest sorority that expands from the Southeast to the Midwest regions of the United States. It was founded by Anh Ngoc Nguyen and six other women at the University of Georgia on December 5, 1998....
- ΘΝΞ Theta Nu XiTheta Nu XiTheta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. is a historically multicultural sorority founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by seven women who sought to bridge cultural gaps...
- ΛΘΑ Lambda Theta AlphaLambda Theta AlphaLambda Theta Alpha is a Latina sorority in the United States.The idea for Lambda Theta Alpha began in the late 1970s, when colleges and universities experienced an influx of Latino enrollment; the organization came into being at Kean University in 1975 with Lambda Theta Alpha's seventeen founding...
- ΣΣΡ Sigma Sigma RhoSigma Sigma RhoSigma Sigma Rho ' is a South Asian-based sorority founded on December 10, 1998 at St. John's University in Queens, New York, making it the first sorority of its kind to be established on the United States East Coast....
- ΛYΛ Lambda Upsilon LambdaLambda Upsilon LambdaLa Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity was established on February 19, 1982 in order to address the shortcomings of academic institutions in meeting and addressing the needs of Latino students in higher education...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Unidad-Latina-%CE%9B%CE%A5%CE%9B-Fraternity-Inc-Beta-Epsilon-Chapter-GSU/210440399003244 - ΛΘΦ Lambda Theta PhiLambda Theta PhiLambda Theta Phi is a non-profit social fraternity in the United States. It was founded on December 1, 1975 at Kean College in Union, New Jersey. It emphasizes Latin unity and the celebration of the Latin culture. In 1992 Lambda Theta Phi was accepted into the North-American Interfraternity...
IFC Fraternities
- AEΠ Alpha Epsilon PiAlpha Epsilon PiAlpha Epsilon Pi , the Global Jewish college fraternity, has 155 active chapters in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Israel with a membership of over 9,000 undergraduates...
http://www.aepi.org - KΣ Kappa SigmaKappa SigmaKappa Sigma , commonly nicknamed Kappa Sig, is an international fraternity with currently 282 active chapters and colonies in North America. Kappa Sigma has initiated more than 240,000 men on college campuses throughout the United States and Canada. Today, the Fraternity has over 175,000 living...
http://www.gsukappasigma.com - ΠΚΦ Pi Kappa PhiPi Kappa PhiPi Kappa Phi is an American social fraternity. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty, Jr. on December 10, 1904 at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...
http://www.gsupikapps.com - ΠΚA Pi Kappa AlphaPi Kappa AlphaPi Kappa Alpha is a Greek social fraternity with over 230 chapters and colonies and over 250,000 lifetime initiates in the United States and Canada.-History:...
http://www.gsupike.com - ΣN Sigma NuSigma NuSigma Nu is an undergraduate, college fraternity with chapters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia...
http://www.gsusigmanu.org
National Panhellenic Council Sororities
- AOΠ Alpha Omicron PiAlpha Omicron PiAlpha Omicron Pi is an international women's fraternity promoting friendship for a lifetime, inspiring academic excellence and lifelong learning, and developing leadership skills through service to the Fraternity and community. ΑΟΠ was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus...
- ΑΞΔ Alpha Xi DeltaAlpha Xi DeltaAlpha Xi Delta is a women's fraternity founded on April 17, 1893 at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois. Alpha Xi Delta is one of the oldest women's fraternities as well as one of the ten founding fraternities of the National Panhellenic Conference...
http://www.gsu.alphaxidelta.org/ - ΔZ Delta ZetaDelta ZetaDelta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...
http://www.deltazetagsu.com/ - ΦM Phi MuPhi MuPhi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The organization was founded as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852, and was announced publicly on March 4 of the same year...
- ZTA Zeta Tau AlphaZeta Tau AlphaZeta Tau Alpha is a women's fraternity, founded October 15, 1898 at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia. The Executive office is located in Indianapolis, Indiana...
http://www.gsuzetas.org/
National Pan-Hellenic Council
- ΑΦΑ Alpha Phi AlphaAlpha Phi AlphaAlpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...
http://www.gqzetamu.com/ - AKA Alpha Kappa AlphaAlpha Kappa AlphaAlpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
- ΔΣΘ Delta Sigma ThetaDelta Sigma ThetaDelta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University...
- ΙΦΘ Iota Phi Theta
- ΩΨΦ Omega Psi PhiOmega Psi PhiOmega Psi Phi is a fraternity and is the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college. Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. The founders were three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos...
- ΦBΣ Phi Beta SigmaPhi Beta SigmaPhi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
- ZΦΒ Zeta Phi BetaZeta Phi BetaZeta Phi Beta is an international, historically black Greek-lettered sorority and a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.Zeta Phi Beta is organized into 800+ chapters, in eight intercontinental regions including the USA, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean...
Alumni and faculty
Since its opening, Georgia State has graduated 175,000 alumni. Currently, it is estimated there are 100,000 alumni living in the metro Atlanta area.- Taj AnwarTaj AnwarTaj Anwar is a model, community organizer, philanthropist, political motivator, promoter and a social commentator. She has worked with the FTP Movement, Mothers of Black/Brown Babies, and Crew Love...
, model, activist - David BrownDavid Brown (radio host)David Brown is a lawyer, radio personality and journalist who hosted the nationally syndicated Marketplace radio program from American Public Media from September 2003 to August 2005...
, former host of public radio show MarketplaceMarketplace (radio program)Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, the show is produced and distributed by American Public Media, in association with the University of Southern California... - Max Burns, former Congressman, Georgia 12th District
- Tammy CampTammy CampTammy Camp is an Asian American entrepreneur, public speaker, and private equity adviser. Camp is best known for developing strategy for technology startups during 2002 to 2005 in which a high yield therein made their Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ...
, Entrepreneur, World Record Kiteboarder, Author, Public Speaker - Joey CapeJoey CapeRandal "Joey" Cape is an American singer, songwriter and producer. Active since 1989, Cape is best known as the frontman of the seminal California punk rock band Lagwagon....
, musician, LagwagonLagwagonLagwagon is an American punk rock band originally from Goleta, just outside Santa Barbara, California. They formed in 1990 and went on hiatus and reunited several times over the years... - Brad CohenBrad CohenBrad Cohen is an American motivational speaker and an award-winning teacher and author who has severe Tourette syndrome . Cohen described his experiences growing up with the condition in his book, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, co-authored with Lisa Wysocky...
, teacher and author of Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had - Crista Wrenn, Co-Founder of BlueyeCD, LLC
- James E Copeland, former CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
- Lanard CopelandLanard CopelandLanard Copeland is a retired American-born Australian professional basketball player. He played in the NBL from 1992-2008....
, former NBA player, later famous for playing in the National Basketball League (Australia) - Paul CoverdellPaul CoverdellPaul Douglas Coverdell was a United States Senator from Georgia, elected for the first time in 1992 and re-elected in 1998, and director of the Peace Corps from 1989 until 1991...
, late US Senator from Georgia (attended) - Amy DumasAmy DumasAmy Christine Dumas , known by her primary stage name Lita, is the lead singer for the band The Luchagors as well as a retired professional wrestler and WWE Diva active from 1999 to 2006....
, professional wrestler better known by her ring name Lita (attended) - William DuVallWilliam DuVallthumb|200px|right|William DuVall performing with [[Alice In Chains]] at Roskilde Festival 2010William DuVall is an American musician, best known as current lead singer for Alice In Chains, following the death of the band's original lead singer Layne Staley.DuVall is also co-founder, lead singer,...
, lead singer of Alice in ChainsAlice in ChainsAlice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr... - William M. FieldsWilliam M. FieldsWilliam M. Fields , also known by the lexigram , is an American qualitative investigator studying language, culture, and tools in non-human primates. He is best known for his collaboration with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh beginning in 1997 at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. There...
, primatologist - Michael Gearon Jr., principal owner NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers
- Louie GiglioLouie GiglioLouie Giglio is a pastor , speaker and founder of the Passion Movement.-Biography:Giglio graduated from Georgia State University and earned a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Later he went to Grace Theological Seminary to pursue a Doctor of...
, pastor and founder of the Passion Movement - Matthew HilgerMatthew HilgerMatthew Hilger is an American professional poker player and author from Atlanta, Georgia. He also operates his own poker-related website.-Early years:...
, professional poker player and author - Mary HoodMary HoodMary Hood is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel, Familiar Heat...
, author - Jerry HuckabyJerry HuckabyThomas Jerald Huckaby, usually known as Jerry Huckaby , is a retired businessman who served as a Democratic U.S. representative from the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana between 1977 and 1993...
, former U.S. Representative from Louisiana - Henry JenkinsHenry JenkinsHenry Jenkins III is an American media scholar and currently a Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC School of Cinematic Arts...
, Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies - Lance KrallLance KrallLance Krall is a Vietnamese-American comedian and actor, television writer, director, and producer. He became well known after his portrayal as "Kip" in the role in faux-reality show The Joe Schmo Show...
, actor - Richard H. Lenny, Chairman, President, and CEO, The Hershey Company
- Ken LewisKen LewisKen Lewis may refer to:*Ken Lewis , former head of Bank of America*Ken Lewis , session drummer*Ken Lewis *Kenneth Lewis, UK politician...
, CEO of Bank of America - Vasco NunesVasco NunesVasco Lucas Nunes is a Portuguese cinematographer, producer, and film director. In 2003, he graduated from the AFI Conservatory, where he got a masters in Cinematography, but had begun working in the film and television industry in the early '90s.His work is part of the permanent collection of the...
, Filmmaker - Sean LinkenbackSean LinkenbackSean Linkenback, is an author known mainly for writing the Unauthorized Guide to Godzilla Collectibles the first comprehensive guide on the subject in the English language...
, author - LudacrisLudacrisChristopher Brian Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings...
, musician, actor - E. Vachel Pennebaker, President of Sears, Roebuck and Company
- Jody Powell, White House Press Secretary, 1977–1980
- Glenn RichardsonGlenn RichardsonGlenn Richardson is the former Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Following a suicide attempt, he announced in 2009 that he would resign as Speaker effective Jan. 1, 2010, and he resigned as a member of the House on Jan...
, former Speaker, Georgia House of Representatives - Julia RobertsJulia RobertsJulia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
, actress (attended) - Sue Savage-RumbaughSue Savage-RumbaughSue Savage-Rumbaugh , also known by the lexigram , is a primatologist most known for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their use of "Great Ape language" using lexigrams and computer-based keyboards...
, primatologist at GSU's Language Research Center - Charles Shapiro, former ambassador to Venezuela, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US State Department
- Andy StanleyAndy StanleyAndy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church. He also founded North Point Ministries, which is a worldwide Christian organization.- Biography :...
, church planter, pastor and author - Ray StevensRay StevensRay Stevens is an American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty songs.-Early career:...
, musician - Kathleen Swaim, top ColoradoColoradoColorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
Physical Therapist of Exempla - Lynn WestmorelandLynn WestmorelandLynn A. Westmoreland is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches from the far southern Atlanta suburbs to the suburbs of Columbus...
, United States Representative - Beth Van FleetBeth Van FleetBeth Van Fleet is a female beach volleyball player from the United States who won the silver medal at the NORCECA Circuit 2009 at Guatemala playing with Saralyn Smith....
, AVP beach volleyball professional player
Further reading
- Reed, Merl E. Educating the Urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University, 1913–1969 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xiv, 321 pp.) isbn 978-0-88146-148-0