Georgia State University (commonly referred to as State of Georgia , Country , or GSU ) is a public research university at the center city ​​of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1913, this is one of four universities of the University of Georgia Systems research. It is also the largest higher education institution based in Georgia, with a total population of approximately 52,000 students, including 32,082 graduates and undergraduate students at the city center campus by 2015.
Georgia State University is classified as a research university "R1" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is the most comprehensive public institution in the Atlanta area that offers over 250 graduate and postgraduate programs scattered across eight academic academies with approximately 3,500 faculty members. The GSU has two libraries, a University library and a Law library, which holds over 4.3 million combined volumes and serves as a federal document storage. The University has an economic impact on the Atlanta economy of more than $ 1.4 billion per year.
The Georgia State Panthers represent the NCAA Division I sports teams from Georgia State University. The GSU Team (except beach volleyball) is a member of the Sun Belt Conference, a conference that GSU is a charter member.
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Histori
Originally intended as a night school, Georgia State University was founded in 1913 as the Demonstration Night School of Georgia School of Technology . The Reorganization of the University of Georgia System in the 1930s caused the school to be the Atlanta Extension Center of the University of Georgia System and allowed the evening students to earn degrees from several universities in the University System. During this time, the school is divided into two divisions: Georgia Evening College , and Atlanta Junior College . In September 1947, the school was affiliated with the University of Georgia and was named Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia .
For the first four decades, the school was treated as an overseas department of its parent institution - Georgia Tech until 1947, and the UGA after 1947. Thus, its chief executive was called a director. However, in 1955, the Bupati Council made it an autonomous four-year college under the name of the Administration of Georgia State Business Administration Walter Sparks, who had served as director since 1927, becoming the first new presidential autonomous institution. In 1961, other programs in the school grew large enough that the name was shortened to Georgia State College . It became Georgia State University in 1969.
In 1995, the Georgian Board of Directors granted Georgia's "university research status", joined the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, and the University of Augusta.
The first African-American student to enroll in Georgia State in 1962, a year after the integration of Georgia University and Georgia Tech. Annette Lucille Hall is a litonian social studies teacher enrolled in the Institute of Americanism and Communism journey, a course required for all IPS teachers.
The Peachtree Road Race, started in 1970 by cross-country coach Georgia State and male dean Tim Singleton, took the lead in the first six years before handing it to the Atlanta Track Club. The second year, he created the first precious collection T-shirt.
Campus expansion
1913-1975
For over 100 years of history, the growth of the State of Georgia requires the acquisition and development of more space to meet its needs. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many buildings were built as part of major urban renewal projects, such as the Tarik Library (1966), the South Room (1968), the expansion of the Tarik Library in 1968, Arts and Humanities Building (1970) Public Class Building ten floors (1971, now called Langdale Hall), Sports Arena (1973), and Twelve storey City Life Building (1974). In addition, plaza systems and constructed walkways are built to connect these buildings with one another through Decatur Street and parking structures.
1980-1989
In the 1980s, another round of expansion took place with the acquisition of the former Municipal Auditorium of Atlanta in 1979, later renamed Alumni Hall in 1982 and then to Dahlberg Hall in 2010, and is currently the administrative office of Georgia State. In the same year, the College of Law was established at the Urban Life Building, and the Title Building on Decatur Street was acquired and converted into the College of Education headquarters and the classroom. In 1988, the nine-storey Library South was built on the south side of Decatur Street, connected to the Pullen Library via a three-story bridge (officially referred to as the "link") and effectively doubled the library space..
1990-2004
Georgia State continued this growth into the 1990s, with Alumni Hall expansion in 1991, the opening of the Center for Natural Science in 1992, and the acquisition of Bank C & amp; S at Marietta Street in 1993, which is now home to the Robinson College of Business. Georgia State's first move to the Fairlie-Poplar district was the acquisition and renovation of the Standard Building, the Haas-Howell Building, and the Rialto Theater in 1996. The classrooms of Standard and Haas-Howell classrooms and buildings, offices and practice rooms for the School of Music, and Rialto is home to the GSU Jazz Studies program and 833-seat theater. In 1998, the Student Center expanded to Gilmer Street and provided a new 400-seat auditorium and seating for exhibitions and offices for student clubs. The new Student Recreation Center opened at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Gilmer Street in 2001. In 2002, the five-story Helen M. Aderhold Learning Center opened at Luckie Street amid controversy over the demolition of the historic building on the block. More recently, in 2004, Andrew Young's School of Policy Studies was transferred to the former Wachovia Bank Building at Five Points.
2005-2015
After the release of the 2006 master plan update, a number of new building activities took place on campus. The $ 20 million renovation to the Pullen Library complex was completed during the 2006-07 school year. Several new housing units on campus were built, including 2,000 Commons Commons beds in 2007, a new dormitory named Freshman Hall (later renamed Patton Hall) 2009 and conversion from former Wyndham Garden Hotel and Baymont Inn & amp; Suite is a new hostel with a capacity of 1100 people named Piedmont North. The new Greek housing complex was built in 2010 along Edgewood Avenue. The Citizens Trust Building on Piedmont Avenue was purchased by the university to provide space for office and student services in 2007. Science Center Parker H. Petit completed in 2010, opening a science laboratory and teaching room. In May 2015, the Law School was transferred to his building now at 89 Park Place after the land was donated to the university.
2016-present
The latest incarnation of the Strategic Plan outlines the growth of the university from 2011 to 2016 and a brief overview that will be changed until 2021. By 2016, the extension to the Petit Science Center is complete. There are plans to build housing graduate students behind the Center.
On May 31, 2012, the athletics department released a new facility master plan. The plan includes upgrades and renovations to the GSU Sports Arena including a new (finished) outdoor sand volleyball court as well as plans to build new baseball, softball and football stadiums. It will replace the current stadium in Panthersville. In May 2014, the university announced its intention to pursue the Turner 77-acre Field area after Baseball Major League Baseball Atlanta's club moved to SunTrust Park in 2017. The university intends to retrofit Turner Field to an open-air football stadium of 30,000 seats and build a new baseball field at the site of the former Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, incorporating a wall where Hank Aaron hit a record-breaking 715 home run. Additional retail and student housing development is also planned for the parking area around Turner Field.
On December 21, 2015, the Fulton County Provincial Recreation Authority announced that Georgia State's bid to redevelop Turner Field was received. On August 18, 2016, the State of Georgia and the Atlanta-Fulton Regional Recreation Authority reached a temporary purchase agreement for Turner Field, and the purchase and rebuilding plan was approved by the Bupati Board on November 9, 2016. On January 5, 2017, the Georgia Turner Field Acquisition , since renamed Georgia State Stadium, was officially closed, with a stadium conversion project commencing in February 2017. The State of Georgia stadium hosted the first match on 31 August 2017.
Consolidation with Georgia Perimeter College
On January 5, 2015, news broke that Georgia State and Georgia Perimeter College would join. More than a year later, the Council of the University System of Georgia approved the incorporation of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College, a 2-year college with 5 campuses. The Council also announced that the current GSU president, Dr. Mark Becker, will remain a joint university president, who retains the name of Georgia State University. This merger created the largest university in the state of Georgia in about 54,000 students.
Symbol
The school's emblem was registered at the College of Arms in London. The Latin motto means "Truth is strong and will be conquered" (or vice versa, "Truth is precious and must be overcome"). Panther holds an educational symbol, with a red-colored quill representing fire in the Atlanta emblem. Gold coins indicate the beginning of the university as a business school. The grand crown is a representation of Stone Mountain granite. The fire center is the eternal flame in honor of the first president, George Sparks, and represents the fire scholarship and burning of Atlanta.
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Organization
The President of Georgia State University (now Mark P. Becker) is the chief administrator and appointed and supervised by the Georgian Board of Governors.
The university consists of ten universities (although the division uses "college", "school", or "institute", the titles show no difference between them):
Schools and colleges
- Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
- College of Nursing and Health Professions Byrdine F. Lewis
- Art College
- Faculty of Art & amp; Science
- Academy of Education and Human Development
- J. Mack Robinson College of Business
- The Institute of Biomedical Sciences
- Higher Education Law
- Honors College
- Perimeter College **
- School of Public Health
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- Unlike other college-making universities, students accepted at Perimeter College only have access to five campus-related suburban campuses and not the main campus. A Perimeter College student must apply for admission to the main city center campus for access to a bachelor's degree.
Campus
From the days of Georgia State as a single night school building to the university as it is today, the State of Georgia has built itself in the heart of downtown Downtown Atlanta. Whereas the nickname of the school - dating from the early 1960s - from "Concrete Campus" was once a source of shyness, this name has been embraced by the university community. The university embraced the slogan, "part of the city, not separated from the city" as its growth to downtown Atlanta increased. This has led to widening sidewalks around the campus, and focuses on Decatur Street as "Main Street" from campus.
Sparks Hall
Sparks Hall is the first building designed and built specifically for schools. It was designed by the Atlanta Cooper architecture company, Barrett, Skinner, Woodbury, and Cooper. Construction took place between 1952 and 1955 at a cost of about $ 2 million. The first class was held in the building on April 21, 1955. On June 8, 1960, the building was named after George McIntosh Sparks, former college presidency. Currently, Graduate Admissions houses, Student Advisory Centers, and One Stop Shop. It's also primarily a classroom home and a computer lab room.
Housing
After the 1996 Summer Olympics was held in Atlanta, the State of Georgia acquired the first dormitory on its campus in the 2,000-bed Olympic Village residential compound located at the southeast corner of Centennial Olympic Park Drive (formerly Techwood Drive) and North Avenue used to board Olympic athletes during Olympic. The Village was then sold to the Georgia Institute of Technology and renamed North Avenue Apartments.
Lofts University
In August 2002, the 450-place Lofts University opened on the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland Street on the northeast side of the campus as housing for undergraduate students and student athletes, as well as students with families and graduate students. In 2008, Loft converted into multipersonic dorm as well as apartment-style dormitories, increasing the number of beds to the current number of 550 residents in 231 apartments.
Commons University
On August 10, 2007, Georgia State opened the Commons College, a $ 165 million housing complex consisting of 1,992 students, occupying a city block bordered by Ellis Street, Piedmont Avenue, John Wesley Dobbs Avenue, and Jesse Hill Jr. Drive. A GSU economics professor estimates the new dorm could have an economic impact of $ 10-12 million in downtown Atlanta. The university plans to eventually accommodate 20% of its enrollment in housing near the downtown campus. With the opening plan of the Commons University, it was announced on March 7, 2007 that the Georgia Institute of Technology acquired the Olympic Village housing, located across North Avenue from the Institute. In 2011, Commons was voted "the best hostel in the country" by DormSplash.com. This was followed in 2012 by The Fiscal Times ranking Commons as some of the most luxurious dormitories in the country, ranked as the 3rd most "very luxurious".
Patton Hall
In the fall of 2009, Georgia State opened a 325-bed residence reserved for new students, originally named Freshman Hall. Renamed Patton Hall in 2013 after former Georgian state president Carl Patton, the dorms are located on the corner of Piedmont and Edgewood Avenue, about 0.2 miles from the heart of the GSU campus. Facilities include a 24/4.5 dining room offering breakfast, lunch and dinner with buffet style. The dining room is open to all Georgia State students, and all residents of Patton Hall should have meal plans for the dining room.
Greek Housing
For the academic year 2010, Georgia State opened a Greek Housing facility, located adjacent to Patton Hall on Edgewood Avenue. Each townhome in the complex has chap rooms, kitchens and bedrooms ranging from 9-19 beds.
Piedmont North
Recently, following its expansion plan, Georgia State acquired two hotels in downtown Atlanta, Wyndham Garden Hotel and Baymont Inn and Suites on Piedmont Avenue. The hotel and grounds have been renovated and converted into dormitories, Piedmont North Buildings A and B, contributing to the transformation of the university into a more traditional campus. The complex now includes living and study space for about 1,100 students, as well as a green space, recreation area and a 12,000 square foot (1,100 m) dining room, Piedmont North Dining. Hall.
Piedmont Central
On May 14, 2014, the ground was damaged in a new residence hall, 1,152 beds named Piedmont Central. The hall receives its first residence in the fall semester of 2016. The facility includes a 15,000 square foot dining facility, a conference room, a communal kitchen, study room and laundry facilities.
Campus security
The department consists of more than 160 sworn state police officers, 60 full-time security guards, 10 part-time security guards, 16 communications officers and eight staff members, making it the largest campus law enforcement agency in Georgia.
Perimeter College
Perimeter College consists of five different campuses around the Metro Atlanta area. Campuses in Alpharetta, Clarkston, Decatur, Dunwoody, and Newton County each offer different facilities. The Alpharetta campus consists of two buildings, with students enrolled on the campus having free access to a nearby private gym, as well as access to other Perimeter campus facilities. Clarkston Campus is a campus filled with athletic facilities, (tennis court, soccer field, gym) and 14 buildings. The Decatur Campus includes greenhouses, tennis courts, and six academic buildings including the Student Success Center. Dunwoody campus includes a fitness center, weightlifting room, soccer field, tennis court, observatory, gazebo, and eight academic buildings. The Newton campus consists of a baseball field, softball field, health and recreation center, and two academic buildings.