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Student interest in the experiential learning and small-class environment offered by Georgia College & State University (GCSU) is at an all-time high. Heading into Fall 2024, applications to GCSU have grown 44% since Fall 2022, and 50% since Fall 2021. GCSU Provost Dr. Costas Spirou said the growth is a by-product, first, of the professional enrollment management approaches of Sr. Vice President of Enrollment Management Joel Robinson over the past several years. “Under Joel’s direction,...

Georgia College & State University has introduced augmented reality to Andalusia, once home to its famed alumna and popular Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, ’45. An interactive, self-guided grounds tour is now available at Andalusia, allowing visitors to scan a QR code, located in the Interpretive Center, with their smartphone for a more in-depth glance into the past. “This new feature is on the cutting edge of delivery methods for interpretation in this area,” said Matt Davis, director...

With dozens of academic publications to his credit on the subject of Flannery O’Connor, ’45, you would never know that Dr. Bruce Gentry had a negative reaction the first time he read the famous author’s work.“The first time I was given a Flannery O’Connor story to read, it scared me,” Gentry said. “I didn’t immediately fall in love with this author. But I couldn’t forget ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’”Gentry says that as an undergraduate student of English and journalism at the University...