- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Columbus State University
- Creator:
- Lloyd, Craig
- Date of Original:
- 2004-01-02
- Subject:
- Columbus State University
Universities and colleges--Georgia--Columbus - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Founded in 1958, Columbus State University (CSU) has played a significant role in the cultural and economic development of the city of Columbus and Muscogee County. In the fall of 2003 CSU enrolled 6,937 students. More than 55 percent of the area's teachers, including 90 percent of its music teachers, are CSU graduates, as are more than 70 percent of its law enforcement officers and 80 percent of its nurses. Hundreds of alumni are local business and political leaders. Many of these professionals could not have afforded higher education without access to CSU. Some of them are members of the Columbus State University Foundation (chartered in 1963 as the Columbus College Foundation) and contribute to making this private fund-raising group among the most successful organization of its kind among the University System of Georgia's regional state universities. The foundation's support has helped gain regional and national recognition for the university's Schwob School of Music. CSU's 1996 partnership with the state of Georgia and Columbus-based Total System Services in the training of computer programmers marked the first application of the University System's Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP), a venture in regional economic development.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/columbus-state-university/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "Columbus State University," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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