Education

Waycross native Javon Huynh has written for campus publications like Sincerely Southern and participated in the 2023 Voices Summer Fellow for the Asian American Journalist Association. He interned at WJCL and implemented a journalism course for his hometown YMCA's summer camp program.

For the project, the school’s third and fourth graders will research plants native to Georgia’s Piedmont ecoregion to then plan, install and manage a garden to attract a variety of pollinators. The garden will be used as an outdoor classroom, where older students will teach younger students about pollinators, native plants and biodiversity. Summer campers will work in the garden when school is out of session, and proceeds from a farmer’s market next fall will fund future garden projects.

Bulloch County outperformed the state in the majority of the CCRPI’s component areas for each grade segment - elementary, middle, and high schools. The school district significantly outperformed the state in the Closing the Gap component. Also, Bulloch County’s four-year graduation rate of 89.10% is higher than the state’s rate of 84.9%. Brooklet Elementary received Distinguished School status.

Fall 2023 commencement ceremonies for Georgia Southern were held at the Allen E. Paulson Stadium in Statesboro on Dec. 14 and the Enmarket Arena in Savannah on Dec. 16. 

The group is comprised of Ariel Cornett, Ph.D., and Erin Piedmont, Ph.D., who teach elementary social studies methods, and Michelle Reidel, Ph.D., Betsy Barrow, Ed.D., and Delandrea Hall, Ph.D., who teach middle grades and secondary social studies methods classes. Together, they were honored for the Social Studies Programs of Excellence, rooted in their practices across Georgia Southern’s campuses and the state.

Senior Leadership Academy is a transformative professional development program aimed at advancing careers within TCSG and its 22 colleges

Richmond Hill native Kiara Farinacci was inspired by the pediatric nurse that supported her when she was younger. Farinacci will take the National Council of State Boards of Nursing exam in January and begin her career as a mother-baby nurse at Memorial Health in Savannah in February.

Congratulations Georgia Southern University Fall 2023 Graduates! If you're attending the Statesboro ceremony on Thursday or the Savannah ceremony on Saturday, check out this helpful information about parking, ticketing, accessibility, and more.

The contract will allow associate professors Heidi Altman, Ph.D., Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Ph.D., and Ryan McNutt, Ph.D., to perform an ethnographic overview and assessment of the cultural resources associated with the Andersonville National Historic Site.

A CPA with Dabbs, Hickman, Hill, & Cannon, LLP was invited to class to help business management students understand the importance of accounting