Observations and Next Steps
Presented below is the organization chart showing where East Georgia State College was placed within the operational structure of Georgia Southern University on July 1, 2025, the beginning of FY 2026. On this day, the following positions were established:
- GS President became the Interim President of EGSC
- GS Associate Provost for Institutional Assessment and Accreditation and Institutional Accreditation Liaison became EGSC’s Acting Provost and Chief Academic Officer
- GS Associate Vice President for Enrollment & Student Success became the supervisor of a newly appointed Swainsboro Campus Director
Figure 1: GS/EGSC Pre-Consolidation Organization Char
With the East Georgia/Georgia Southern consolidation scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2026, East Georgia will focus on providing its students an increasing wealth of academic and co-curricular resources that facilitate their persistence, progress and on-time completion of undergraduate degrees.
As one example, East Georgia students will benefit from the partnership between Georgia Southern and the National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at Georgia State University. According to NISS’s latest Report, one-year retention rates among Georgia Southern’s bachelor degree seeking students increased by 5.7 percentage points from 71.2 percent for Fall 2021 to 76.9 percent for Fall 2024. With its mission to be an open access point to the USG, East Georgia has long had a strategic priority to improve its retention rates, including fall-to-spring and spring-to-fall semesters, in addition to one-year fall-to-fall semesters. The consolidation with Georgia Southern will provide East Georgia students with a learning and growth environment that encourages them to stay through degree completion.
