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Georgia State University (GSU) is an urban research university in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves over 28,000[1] students, and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. The current president is Carl V. Patton.
HistoryImage:GSU1.JPG View of (from L-R) the Sports Arena and Library South on Decatur Street
Campus ExpansionOver its 90-plus year history, Georgia State's growth has required the acquisition and construction of more space to suit its needs. During the late 1960s/early 1970s, numerous buildings were constructed, such as the Pullen Library (1966), Classroom South (1968), the expansion of the Pullen Library in 1968, the Arts and Humanities Building (1970), the nine-story General Classroom Building (1971), the Sports Arena (1973), and the twelve-story Urban Life Building (1974). In addition, a raised plaza and walkway system was constructed to connect these buildings with each other over Decatur Street and parking structures. In the 1980s, another round of expansion took place with the acquisition of the former Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in 1979, which was subsequently converted into Alumni Hall in 1982, which houses Georgia State's administrative offices. That same year, the College of Law was founded in the Urban Life Building, and the Title Building on Decatur Street was acquired and converted into the College of Education's headquarters and classroom space. In 1988, the nine-story Library South was constructed on the south side of Decatur Street, which was connected to the Pullen Library via a three-story high foot bridge (officially referred to as a "link") and effectively doubled the library's space. The University Center was expanded in 1989 to include the University Bookstore Building, which also houses the Auxiliary Services Department. Georgia State continued this expansion into the 1990s, with the expansion of Alumni Hall in 1991, the opening of the Natural Sciences Center in 1992, and the acquisiton of the former C&S Bank Building on Marietta Street in 1993, which is now the home of the Robinson College of Business. Georgia State's first expansion into the Fairlie-Poplar district was the acquisition of the Rialto Theater in 1996. In 1998, the Student Center was expanded towards Gilmer Street and provided a new 400-seat auditorium and space for exhibitions and offices for student clubs. A sorely needed Student Recreation Center opened on the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Gilmer Street in 2001. In 2002, the five-story high Helen M. Aderhold Learning Center opened on Luckie Street amid controversy over the demolition of historical buildings on its block. Most recently, in 2004, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was moved to the former Wachovia Bank Building at Five Points.
HousingUntil fairly recently, Georgia State was known largely as a commuter school due to the lack of housing. After the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games were held in Atlanta, Georgia State acquired the 2,000-bed Olympic Village housing complex located at the southeast corner of Centennial Olympic Park Drive (formerly Techwood Drive) and North Avenue that was used to board Olympic athletes during the Games. For the first time in its history, the university became a residential institution. In August, 2002, the 450-bed University Lofts opened at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Courtland Street on the northeast side of campus as housing for graduate students, undergraduates over the age of twenty-one, and honors students. In the fall of 2007, Georgia State is scheduled to open a new state-of-the-art 2,000-bed complex known as University Commons at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Ellis Street. On March 7, 2007, it was announced that the Georgia Institute of Technology was acquiring the Village. [3] GSU colleges and schoolsImage:GSU2.JPG View of (from L-R) the Student Center, Urban Life Building, and University Center Georgia State has six colleges and schools:
Student MediaThere are five student-run media organizations:
ArtsGeorgia State University's main cultural stage is the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, an 833-seat performing-arts venue located in the heart of the Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta. The venue is home to the Rialto Series, presenting the best of national and international jazz, world music, and dance; School of Music performances; the Atlanta Film Festival, and many others. An additionally important venue at Georgia State is the Digital Arts and Entertainment Laboratory (DAEL). Housed in the Department of Communication, the Digital Arts and Entertainment Laboratory (DAEL) has received more than $2 million in funding from the Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia State, and Georgia State’s College of Arts and Sciences. DAEL offers a full range of equipment and facilities for digital media research and production. It also includes state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for producing and manipulating extraordinarily high quality moving images. Supported image capture formats include HDTV and 35mm film. In addition, DAEL provides state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for assessing audience responses to film, television, computer animation, and interactive media. ResearchGeorgia State University is the Southeast's leading urban research institution.[citation needed] It is also on the list of the top one-hundred public universities for doctoral degrees awarded. More than 250 fields of study are offered through some fifty-two accredited degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, specialist, and doctoral levels. Students may enroll in day or evening classes and in part-time or full-time study. Georgia State houses three university libraries. Additionally, many academic departments provide libraries for their students. The University Library (also known as the William Russell Pullen Library, housed in Library North and Library South) contains more than 1.4 million volumes, including 8,000 active serials and nearly 22,000 media materials. The library provides access to numerous electronic periodical and resource indexes (many with full text), more than14,000 electronic journals, and about 30,000 electronic books. It is also a Federal Document Depository and holds more than 820,000 government documents with electronic access to many additional titles. On August 31, 2006, it was announced that Georgia State would be participating in a supercomputing grid with the installation of an IBM P575 Supercomputer in its Network Operations Center. Through an initiative known as SURAGrid, eventually 24 universities in 15 states throughout the Southeast United States will form the research backbone and at its peak, the network will be able to perform over 10 trillion calculations per second.[4] AthleticsImage:Gsupanthers.PNG GSU's two primary athletics logotypes Georgia State currently sponsors 17 NCAA Division I teams. On July 1, 2005, the school left the Atlantic Sun Conference to join the Colonial Athletic Association. Until 2003, the Panthers men's basketball team was coached by Lefty Driesell, one of the winningest coaches in Division I history. In 2006, the Panthers won their first two conference championships as a member of the CAA, winning both in men's and women's golf. Georgia State's athletic program has recently completed a feasibility study that would look at the interest and potential cost to add a Division I-AA college football team. The feasibility study included a survey in which the majority of the students, faculty, staff and alumni expressed their support for this addition. The study included various the financial cost ranging from the renovation of a local stadium in Atlanta to the complete transformation of the current sports arena to a football and basketball arena. As of yet, the Georgia State athletic department has not made a decision. Greek LifeGeorgia State University is home to some fraternities and sororities: five of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (IFC), five of the National Panhellenic Conference (PC), eight of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), and six of the National Multicultural Greek Council (MGC). Image:GSU3.JPG View of the plaza with Library North, Library South, and the Classroom South Building in the background IFC Fraternities
MGC Sororities
NPHC Fraternities & Sororities
NPC Sororities
Notable alumni
Notable Faculty
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