GSU’s Homecoming 2021 launched its inaugural Bean Bag Tournament Monday afternoon.  Organizers Stacy Amedeo and Bryce Johnsen stressed the importance of the event for students and being able to create a safe space for them to be able to come out and enjoy themselves.  Amedeo is a 10-year veteran...

GSU's Spanish & Global Studies Program will present Voces de Otoño/Voices of the Fall, highlighting a bilingual poetry reading with Dominican actor and poet Francis Mateo on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 3 p.m. via Zoom. Be sure to make a reservation in time.    A question-and-answer session with Mateo...

Has the return to in-person learning brought added stress to your already challenging sphere of college life? If so, GSU is ready with help.  The Phoenix met with Angela Johnson, the social worker for the university’s Counseling and Wellness Center, to identify possible warning signs and to learn...

In a ceremony draped in academic regalia and pageantry, Dr. Cheryl Green officially accepted the mantle as the sixth president of Governors State University in her investiture ceremony on Friday, Sept. 17.   Surrounded on the stage of the Center for Performing Arts by political and educational luminaries,...

As students and faculty returned to in-person learning for the fall term, everyone is facing numerous questions and concerns about class schedules and logistics.   Almost all classes had been online since the beginning of the COVID crisis, so class schedules could be a major hurdle: Will it be...