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Students attending Georgia College & State University have received more than $481 million in scholarships and grants from HOPE since its inception in 1993, according to the Georgia Lottery Corporation.Over 40,000 Georgia College & State University students have been the recipients of some 208,000 separate awards from programs such as the HOPE Scholarship, HOPE Grant and Zell Miller Scholarship.“The HOPE scholarship has transformed higher education in Georgia in every way that the...

High schoolers got a taste of what it’s like to create a podcast this year as part of Georgia College & State University’s High Achievers Program.Students from Baldwin High School and Georgia College Early College participated in a three-month endeavor to learn the basics of podcasting, resulting in their own podcast pseudo-episodes dealing with common problems for teenagers—like relationships and life issues surrounding mental health. “We’re encouraging their public speaking skills,...

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...