This action plan is based on the dedicated work of the Task Force for Racial Equality, the Next Generation of Faculty Implementation Steering Committee and recommendations from faculty, staff and students. Provost Wendy Hensel announced the plan in September 2020 with next steps for the university to achieve a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive campus environment.

This report provides an update from the university administration on the progress of implementation of the Task Force for Racial Equality's recommendations, through the end of Calendar Year 2020 (Dec. 31, 2020).

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

Georgia State is using the results of the COACHE survey as part of a multi-year improvement process. A COACHE micro-website is available to read more about Georgia State and COACHE, the survey results, timeline, action plan, presentations, updates and a contact form.

ScholarWorks is the searchable, open-access institutional repository administered by the University Library to collect, organize, disseminate and preserve the digital scholarly output of Georgia State University faculty, students and staff.

This document serves as the final report for the initial action plan Georgia State implemented beginning in 2020, based on recommendations from the Task Force for Racial Equality. The original action plan issued through the Office of the Provost addresses the recommendations of the Task Force, charged in 2020 with identifying how Georgia State could address issues at the institution and how it could contribute to fostering conversations and identifying solutions for its students, faculty, staff and society. The university continues to take action and evaluates how it can further the goals and spirit of the plans set forth to increase equality, equity and justice at the institution.

This staff climate survey provides a range of benefits to the institution and its employees, including: Information about staff perceptions regarding the nature of their work; policies and practices and the general climate at Georgia State; identify areas where staff feel the operational effectiveness of the University could be enhanced; indicate attitudes toward existing programs for staff and to identify the need for new programs; guide the actions of the Staff Council, the Administrative Council, the University Senate and other representative bodies through the use of reliable data; survey perceptions of managerial effectiveness and of the quality of the supervisor/employee relationship; identify issues that may facilitate or inhibit staff retention; assess the effectiveness of internal communication efforts.

These guides have been created to assist the Georgia State community, including faculty and supervisors, in understanding the work- and other activity-related restrictions involved in some religious holidays/observances.

IPORT is a web-based application that provides access to summarized and detail data that is stored in the university data warehouse, such as reports on enrollment, admissions, grades, graduation, retention, curriculum, faculty teaching duties and student housing. 

In Pulse of the People, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey illustrates the ways rap music serves as a vehicle for the expression and advancement of the political thoughts of urban Blacks, a population frequently marginalized in American society and alienated from electoral politics.

Georgia State must bring its institutional spirit of innovative programming to design, implement, and evaluate strategies that build diversity and inclusion, thereby further enriching the academic environment and inspiring even more members of our diverse student body. The Commission on the Next Generation of Faculty was tasked with proposing how the university might best approach this opportunity and offers five Transformative Recommendations, which are high priority actions that should lead to greater success at recruiting, engaging, and retaining a diverse faculty, as well as three Best Practice Initiatives, which are essential for Georgia State to become nationally recognized in diversity and inclusion. Each recommendation and initiative is intended to be implemented across all campuses.

Following the report of the Commission of the Next Generation of Faculty, Provost Wendy Hensel solicited nominations of faculty to serve on an implementation steering committee. The Commission recommended the steering committee to guide the implementation of the Commission’s recommendations and facilitate the university’s progress on diversity and inclusion.

The initial report of Georgia State University's Task Force for Racial Equality outlines recommendations to address racial equity, social injustice, and how the university can make progress to become a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive institution.

Jill Anderson, the University Library librarian for Africana Studies, provides an overview of national and local Black history archives accessible online and in person. This resource list includes listings of databases, database access, and reading listings from recent University Library book acquisitions.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has further information about rights and obligations regarding accommodations for the Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Please note that this advice does not supersede university policy on religious accommodation, which is also linked at this resource listing.

The Georgia State University (GSU) Staff Climate Survey was originally developed in 2013 by an ad hoc committee of GSU Staff Council members and university representatives. Since then, the Office of Institutional Research (OIR) has been using this instrument to survey GSU staff biannually to learn more about their opinions regarding GSU as a workplace.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Read more in this book by GSU faculty author Dr. Maurice Hobson.

GIL-FIND is a library catalog search engine at Georgia State University connected with the University System of Georgia, where users can find resources from books and periodicals to multimedia resources - available for checkout in person, viewable/readable online, or from any one of the university system's public colleges and universities across Georgia. Keywords: academic journals, publications, academic publications, audiovisual materials, read online, research resources, scholarly resources, books, articles, film, multimedia, video, audio, interlibrary loan, searches, journal articles, monographs, catalog, catalogues

The University Library's extensive holdings of 467 databases provide powerful tools to find what you're looking for. Some of the most used databases are linked here, as well as an A-to-Z guide which allows you to search for specialized databases by subject. Separately, GSU ScholarWorks is a repository for research and scholarship authored by GSU faculty, students and staff. Keywords: University library databases, database searches, academic journals, publications, academic publications, audiovisual materials, read online, Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, dissertations, theses, thesis, monographs, manuscripts, research resources, scholarly resources, books, articles