Georgia State University has received Insight Into Diversity’s 2021 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University has been renamed the Department of Africana Studies, reflecting a global approach to teaching and research in the department, as well as national trends in academia.
Managers today must be able to successfully navigate workplaces and communities peopled by individuals with a rich diversity of backgrounds and experiences including race, gender, sexual orientation, generational and other differences that make each of us unique and valuable to their organizations.
Dr. M. Brian Blake, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at George Washington University, has been named Georgia State University’s president by the University System Board of Regents. He begins his tenure Aug. 9.
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) today announced Dr. M. Brian Blake as finalist for the Georgia State University presidency. Blake is currently executive vice president for Academic Affairs and provost of George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C.
Georgia State University faculty members Tonia Durden and Stacey French-Lee have received a two-year, $800,000 grant from the Early Educator Investment Collaborative (EEIC) to expand and diversify Georgia’s early childhood education workforce.
Their grant, entitled “Project SEED: Increasing the Diversity, Quality and Quantity of Our ECE Workforce,” will provide pathways for culturally and linguistically diverse students to earn a four-year degree in birth through five education.
Georgia State University has been recognized for its employment and support of military veterans and others in the military-connected community. The university was the only higher education institution to earn the designation of 2021 VETS Indexes 4 Star Employer, as part of the inaugural VETS Indexes Employer Awards.
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies has recently been added to the Duke University Press publishing program. The inaugural issue launched this week with the journal’s founder Dr. Alessandra Raengo, Professor of Moving Image Studies here at Georgia State University’s School of Film, Media and Theatre and Dr. Lauren McLeod Cramer, Assistant Professor of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto as editors.
Provost Hensel is pleased to announce the selection of LaVonda N. Reed, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Law at Syracuse University, as the next permanent dean of the College of Law at Georgia State, effective July 1.
Georgia State is pleased to announce its designation as the exclusive host sponsor for Diversity Abroad, Global Inclusion 2021, a global education conference that will take place Oct. 25-29. As a national leader in graduating students from diverse backgrounds and enterprising urban research institution, Georgia State embodies the conference’s mission of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in global education and cultural exchange.
