Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce plans to further enhance communication between myself and the many talented faculty, staff and students at Georgia State University.
Beginning next month, I will hold regularly scheduled roundtable discussions with faculty and staff as well as office hours for students. The first faculty roundtable is set for Thursday, Nov. 11 at 9 a.m. The first staff roundtable will be Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 9 a.m. Both meetings will be held in Room 315 of Dahlberg Hall and will last one hour.
To request an invitation to attend either meeting, please contact Chandler Brown, coordinator of presidential communications, at chandlerbrown@gsu.edu or 404-413-1361. We will do our best to make sure that everyone who wants to attend is able to do so at this time or at a later date.
Information about office hours will be disseminated to students in the coming weeks.
At the same time, today the Georgia State community is celebrating a milestone - the opening of a Confucius Institute (CI) at Georgia State University. The GSU CI, a partnership with Beijing Language and Culture University, will provide comprehensive services promoting understanding of Chinese language and culture to foster intercultural exchange between China and the United States. Click here for further information.
An official dedication ceremony, featuring performances by Georgia State's School of Music, will be held tonight at the Rialto Center for the Arts. The event begins at 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. It is a ticketed event, and there are a limited number of tickets still available. Tickets can be picked up at the Rialto box office on a first-come, first-served basis.
I commend associate professor Baotong Gu, director of the Confucius Institute, and the many other people who have worked diligently for many months to make this important institute a reality, and I look forward to seeing many of you at the dedication tonight.
Thank you for a productive and energetic semester to date and for all you do to make a great Georgia State even better.
Sincerely,
Mark P. Becker
President
Department of Real Estate 4th in world
Georgia State University's Department of Real Estate in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business is ranked No. 4 in the world according to an independent study recently published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. The study, conducted by Jang C. Jin of the Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics at the Chinese University in Hong Kong and Eden S. H. Yu of the Department of Economics and Finance at the City University of Hong Kong, was based upon the largest number of pages of published research in the three leading U.S. real estate journals over the past ten years by faculty currently on staff at the business schools measured.
Law school ranked in Princeton Review
Georgia State University College of Law is one of the nation's most outstanding law schools in the latest Princeton Review 2010 edition of "The Best 172 Law Schools." There are 663 students enrolled at the College of Law, and the majority of those students are full time. Upon graduation, 95 percent pass the bar exam on the first try. Of the 2009 graduates, 93 percent were employed within six months of graduation.
Georgia State University's Reading Recovery Training Center in the College of Education will receive $3.6 million over the next five years to improve literacy skills among struggling first graders in underperforming schools.
Doris Derby, director of Georgia State's Office of African American Student Services and Programs, was recently honored by the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum for her work in the Civil Rights Movement. Derby was selected as one of "Atlanta's Freedom's Sisters" in appreciation of her "tireless work and lasting contribution to the struggle for equality and justice in America," the certificate reads.
A Georgia State University professor and an Emory University surgeon have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a joint research project to study discharge decisions at hospitals. Economics professor James C. Cox, director of the Experimental Economics Center in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, and John F. Sweeney of the Emory University School of Medicine received the three year award from NIH's National Institute on Aging.
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If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Chandler Brown.