Student Life & Activities

2026 ResumeCon: Inside Out Edition!Your future is full of possibilities, and every great career journey starts with a core memory!Join the Career Center and the Office of Student Health and Wellbeing for an Inside Out-inspired day of resume support, career advice and fun!Stop by for a 15-minute drop-in resume review with our career advisors, dressed as your favorite Inside Out characters, and give your resume the glow-up it deserves. Enjoy light refreshments, themed activities and...

The School of Continuing and Professional Education invites your student organization to sponsor a child and their family for Christmas! On Saturday, Dec. 5, we will travel together by bus to our local Walmart where your group will take the child Christmas shopping to buy gifts for themselves and their family members. We will return to campus for the child to tour the Old Governor's Mansion, wrap gifts and make a holiday craft. After that, the child will get to go home with their gifts...

Calling all student organizations! Come support GCSU's volleyball team this Friday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m.! The student organization with the most attendees will receive a 20% off coupon to Metropolis for each member who attends! Check in at the game to have your organization counted! 

The Mindful Monday for this week offers tips for how to be a better communicator. We've all met people who are really good at making conversation, and they make the people around them feel welcome with their openness. These people are sometimes called "super-communicators", and there are several traits they share that anyone can practice. First, they know what kind of conversation they are having, so they tend to respond appropriately. Is it a practical conversation that calls for...

The Mindful Monday for this week is a reminder about positive self-talk. Do you ever feel like your internal voice is your own worst critic? No one speaks as negatively to us as our own mind, especially when we are under stress. That chatter is a trick -- it makes normal feelings of stress feel catastrophic, and it makes us feel like failures. Try a different approach by giving your internal voice a third-person perspective. Instead of "You aren't good enough," try this: "[Name], what...

Please join us for Times Talk this Wednesday, Oct. 14, at noon with GCSU President Cathy Cox (former state representative and Georgia Secretary of State) and Ms. Nikki Randall-Stroud (former state representative, Bibb County) on "It’s election time! Dissecting political campaigns & ads that influence you"The following articles may be referenced during the discussion: California Cracks Down on Influencers’ Undisclosed Political Ads, Sept. 19, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/media/california-political-ads-influencers-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFE.vZyU.plKAe1kHqobv&smid=url-shareThe...

On Thursday, Oct. 22, the International Club, in collaboration with the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Global Education Center, will sponsor the annual International Fest. Globally-themed exhibits will be a central feature along with tables hosted by our international students who will share their countries and cultures with GCSU students, faculty and staff, plus special guests in attendance. Many Georgia College & State University offices and student organizations will...

Please join us this Wednesday, Oct. 7, for an engaging discussion with Dr. Shaundra Walker, dean of the University Library on how artificial intelligence is changing the publishing landscape. From traditional scholarship to open-access and self-published materials, AI raises serious questions about the costs of creating, distributing and maintaining access to knowledge.The following articles may be referenced during the discussion: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/research/2024/07/29/taylor-francis-ai-deal-sets-worrying-precedenthttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.htmlTimes...