The Georgia College & State University Foundation allocated $100,000 to a new club, the GCSU Student Managed Investments Committee. Led by five leadership board members, the new student group will complete internal analysis and pitch ideas for investing their fund to Georgia College’s Foundation Board of Trustees and the Finance and Investment Committee. “We are proud to make an investment in these students that will result in giving them workforce skills in a competitive market,”...
Finance major Sofia Legoff Flores is ready to jump with both feet into life at Georgia College & State University. The Columbus High School graduate is already familiar with campus. Legoff attended the first Multicultural Student Leadership Conference at Georgia College last year, and she was awarded a presidential scholarship at the President’s Scholarship Competition. The MSLC is a program that introduces students to leadership through interactive sessions, student panels and collaborative...
Colin Adams, ’23, just received his undergraduate degrees in economics and finance at Georgia College & State University. As he attends Florida State University to pursue his master’s and Ph.D. in economics, Adams will not forget the lessons he learned here. “I was lucky to be a supplemental instruction leader with the Learning Center at Georgia College,” he said. “I discovered I liked helping students by facilitating their learning and enjoyed planning for sessions—all aspects of...
Three open seats remain in this summer's study abroad program in Germany! Examine firsthand the stark contrast between capitalism and communism over twelve days in the formerly divided Berlin. Immerse yourself in German culture while studying the direct results of these two economic systems. See vestiges of the Berlin Wall, which split the city in two after the second world war, and contrast everyday life on both sides of that wall with visits to the Allied and DDR museums. Visit sites...
One of twelve winners nationwide, senior finance and economics double-major Lauren Moskowitz has received Charles Schwab’s Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) Talent Advantage (RIATA) Student Scholarship. In its second year, the scholarship provides student winners $10,000 for the 2022-2023 academic year and matches them with a senior advisor for mentoring. The scholarship is supposed to decrease financial barriers for students, advocate diversity and widen the talent pool within...
Before commencement every year, each college of the university selects an outstanding student to receive a medallion commemorating their undergraduate achievement. This year, Savannah Taylor, senior economics and world languages and cultures double-major, won two. The College of Business (COB) and College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) both awarded Taylor their 2022 Outstanding Student Awards. She was also named Georgia College’s Newman Civic Fellow earlier in the year. “There are so...
Even though they were eliminated later, a team of five students were the first from Georgia College to advance to the second round of the Southern Classic Research Challenge, a sub-regional competition in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge. The annual, global competition rigorously tests university students on their analytical, valuation, report writing and presentation skills. As part of the Southern Classic sub-region, students from Georgia College...
Innovative. Tough. Approachable. Passionate. In her nomination, these were the words students and colleagues used to describe Dr. Brooke Conaway, associate professor of economics, and 2022 recipient of the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents Felton Jenkins Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award. Conaway is the fourth Georgia College professor in five years and the second in her department to earn this award. At Georgia College for the last 12 years, she also received the...
Making up just 4% of College of Business undergraduates, economics majors are the minority. But that doesn’t stop them from having transformative experiences at Georgia College. Senior economics major Maxwell Harley began his research over the summer, thanks to Mentored Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (MURACE) grants. “I was able to learn two different programming languages,” said Harley “I’d spend my day working on my research, so I was able to collect data myself...
Reports of child maltreatment dramatically declined during the early days of COVID, when schools nationwide closed their doors and switched to online learning. A new assistant professor of economics at Georgia College, Dr. Cullen Wallace, and his research partners were first to examine the impact of school closings on abuse. By focusing on Florida—which updates its data system monthly—researchers were able to study the issue in ‘real time.’ What they found was startling. While you...
