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Appointments and Faculty News, Featured News, News and Announcements

Margaret Ferguson Appointed Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs

Margaret Ferguson Appointed Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs

Margaret Ferguson will join Georgia State University as Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, effective August 1. Ferguson brings a wealth of experience in academic leadership and institutional effectiveness, coming to Georgia State from Indiana University Indianapolis, where she serves as Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

As Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Ferguson will oversee the university’s academic program development and review processes, curricular policy, faculty advancement, and accreditation. She will work closely with academic units across the university to support the quality, integrity, and innovation of the institution’s academic offerings.

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Faculty Profiles, Featured News, News and Announcements

Faculty Spotlight: Benjamin Marx

Faculty Spotlight: Benjamin Marx

Dr. Benjamin Marx, associate professor of economics at Georgia State’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, researches how economic policy affects human well-being. His work focuses on financial aid in higher education and patterns of charitable giving, using experimental and observational methods to study real-world impacts. One study revealed rural communities often receive less disaster relief due to geographic and economic disparities.

Dr. Marx’s diverse experiences—from refugee resettlement to nonprofit finance—shape his perspective on public economics. His research has been published in top journals, including American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the Journal of Public Economics. At Georgia State, he teaches students from the undergraduate to Ph.D. level, aiming to build their understanding of how policy influences social outcomes. Passionate about both research and teaching, Dr. Marx helps students become informed citizens who can critically evaluate economic claims and policies.

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Georgia State University Earns VETS Indexes 4 Star Employer Award

Georgia State University Earns VETS Indexes 4 Star Employer Award

In recognition of its strong commitment to recruiting, hiring, retaining, developing and supporting veterans and the military-connected community, Georgia State University has received a 4 Star Employer Award from the organization VETS Indexes.

VETS Indexes’ in-depth survey and recognition program analyzes employers’ policies, practices and outcomes across five categories, including recruiting and hiring, development and retention, veteran-inclusive policies and culture, support for members of the National Guard and Reserve, and military spouse and family support.

Georgia State has also once again been named a Top 10 Military-Friendly Tier-1 Research Institution for 2025-26 by MilitaryFriendly.com, an honor that recognizes factors such as graduation and career outcomes, military student support and retention, and financial aid and loan repayment options.

Featured News, News and Announcements, Research News

Georgia State University Receives Mellon Grant to Create Innovative Gullah/Geechee Heritage Research and Preservation Program

Georgia State University Receives Mellon Grant to Create Innovative Gullah/Geechee Heritage Research and Preservation Program

Georgia State University has received a $500,000 grant to develop archival, historical and cultural research to preserve and protect the heritage and sacred land of Gullah/Geechee communities in Georgia and South Carolina.

The grant will help establish the Gullah/Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP) dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors. With the Mellon Foundation’s support, GGSLP will create undergraduate and graduate humanities curricula and foster research, heritage preservation and community engagement to create new knowledge about the history and significance of Black sacred land traditions and protect ancestral burial grounds.

Featured News, Graduate Programs News, News and Announcements

U.S. News & World Report Recognizes Georgia State Graduate Programs

U.S. News & World Report Recognizes Georgia State Graduate Programs

The Graduate School at Georgia State University earned recognition for several of its programs in the latest U.S. News & World Report survey of “Best Graduate Schools.”

Programs in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the College of Education & Human Development, the College of Law, the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, and the School of Public Health placed highly in the latest rankings this April.

The degree programs include, but are not limited to, urban policy, public finance and budgeting, nonprofit management, healthcare law, information systems, real estate, analytics, healthcare management. Additionally, the School of Public Health now ranks first among public health schools at public institutions in Georgia and 26th nationally.

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Featured News, News and Announcements, Student Success, Teaching and Learning

Kyle Frantz Appointed Senior Director of New Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry

Kyle Frantz Appointed Senior Director of New Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry

Georgia State University has named Kyle Frantz as the inaugural senior director of the new Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry (CURCI), effective July 1. Dr. Frantz brings extensive experience in research, education and student mentorship, equipping her to lead the center in its mission to expand opportunities for research, scholarship and creativity for undergraduates across all disciplines.

A professor and science educator in Georgia State’s Neuroscience Institute and Department of Biology, Frantz has dedicated her career to advancing student success through hands-on research experiences.

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