Governors State University

Governors State University (GSU) is a state funded college situated in University Park, Will County, Illinois, United States. The 750 sections of land (3.0 km2) grounds is found 30 miles (48 km) south of Chicago, Illinois. GSU was established in 1969. As of the fall semester 2014, it moves from an upper-division state funded college that conceded youngsters, seniors and graduate-level understudies to a complete state funded college that offers college classes by any stretch of the imagination, including those at the experts and doctoral levels. GSU has four schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Public Administration, the College of Education, and the College of Health and Human Services.

Governors State University was formally settled as a state-upheld establishment of advanced education on July 17, 1969, when Illinois Governor Richard B. Ogilvie marked into law House Bill 666. The University was to have opened with its top of the line of understudies in September 1973. Be that as it may, the four year arranging period was decreased to two years and GSU got its top of the line of understudies in September 1971. GSU was one of the first "Colleges without Walls" and also a college that did not offer evaluations, but rather abilities. Set up of divisions, it had interdisciplinary studies, and all teachers hold the rank of University Professor. GSU is one of the two starting upper-division and graduate colleges in Illinois. The other was the University of Illinois at Springfield, established in 1969 as Sangamon State University.

GSU has formed into a more conventional college, with divisions and offices, educators with rank (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor), and classrooms with savvy innovation. The primary doctoral system was made in 2007 as an expert doctoral degree in Physical Therapy. GSU has the accompanying universities: Arts and Sciences, Business and Public Administration, Education, and Health and Human Services. The University in general is authorize by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The business projects are licensed by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) and general society organization system is authorize by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). The University is likewise an individual from the Illinois Council of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs. GSU will select its first green bean class in August 2014.
Governors State University was granted the 2015 American Council on Education/Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation. It is given to "schools or colleges which, in a time of incredible change in advanced education, have reacted to challenges in inventive and imaginative ways that permits the foundation to thrive.

In 2014, GSU's Dual Degree Program was regarded with the Student Success and College Completion Award by The American Association of State Colleges and Universities The inaugural recompense respects AASCU part foundations for fabulousness and development in a few noteworthy regions of grounds life and leadership.[2] In 2014, the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition additionally perceived the Dual Degree Program at GSU with a honor amid its yearly gathering. The NRC dispatched the new recompense for "...institutions that have outlined and executed exceptional shared activities upgrading huge moves amid the undergrad experience. Grant beneficiaries ... have shown the adequacy of the activity in supporting understudy achievement, learning and advancement at an assortment of move focuses past the principal school year and in reacting to interesting institutional needs.