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CSU Plans University Avenue Golf Studio, Driving Range

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Created on March 20, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Columbus State University is planning to build a new golf studio and driving range on University Avenue with input from former Masters champion Larry Mize.

The studio and practice facility will be the new home for Columbus State’s golf teams.

CSU Foundation Properties, Inc. recently bought the Boutwell Clinic and its parking lot at 3434 University Ave., which fronts 11 acres of land Foundation Properties already owned. That 11-acre plot is long and narrow, the perfect shape for a driving range. By buying the vacant Boutwell Clinic building, the university is now seeking funds to convert the clinic into a clubhouse and offices, using the adjacent 11 acres for a driving range, putting and short-game areas.

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Holocaust Survivor Marion Lazan to Speak at Legacy Banquet

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Created on March 17, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a Holocaust survivor, will be the keynote speaker for Columbus State University’s annual Legacy Celebration Banquet at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21 at the Cunningham Center.

Lazan began speaking publicly about her Holocaust experiences in 1979. Since publication of her 1996 memoir, Four Perfect Pebbles, co-authored by Lila Perl, more than 1 million students and adults have heard the first-hand account of her Blumenthal family’s ordeal in presentations at schools, organizations and houses of worship around the globe. She details her family’s struggle from events preceding Kristallnacht, the November 1938 Nazi uprising that led to the imprisonment of 30,000 Jews in concentration camps, until her family was liberated more than six years later, when Lazan was 10 years old and weighed just 35 pounds.

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CSU, City Commission, Chamber Unite for Diversity Conference

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Created on March 14, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Columbus State will host a second annual Diversity Conference March 21-22 in cooperation with the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce and the Columbus Mayor’s Commission on Unity, Diversity and Prosperity.

Keynote speakers at the CSU Cunningham Center conference will be Phenix City Mayor Eddie Lowe and Stephanie Jones, an associate professor of elementary and social studies education at the University of Georgia.

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CSU Offers New Online Undergraduate Admissions Application

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Created on March 14, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Columbus State now offers an online undergraduate admissions application, thanks to the collaborative work of the university's offices of Enrollment Management and University Information and Technology Services.

This new option, available to students applying for admission to undergraduate programs of the university, today joins previously available online admission application forms for graduate programs and the online admission application form for international students.

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CSU Conference Celebrates STEM Alliances, Opportunities

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Created on March 13, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Columbus State University will host a major conference on March 28 that highlights its growing array of STEM resources — that is, programs to steer more students into science, technology, engineering and math careers.

NeXtGen STEM: Innovative Solutions for Tomorrow’s Emerging Workforce will unite CSU efforts across three academic colleges and more than a dozen disciplines with external experts from industry, government, small business and other universities, as well as one of America’s pioneers of space exploration.

"We’re interested in companies and people beyond Columbus State seeing what we’ve been developing here and how it relates to them," said conference organizer Shawn Cruzen, professor of astronomy and director of CSU’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center.

CSU’s annual Hunter Lecture, featuring astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr., will be held that night at the city’s Convention and Trade Center as part of the "immersion conference." Now a managing partner in a venture capital firm that focuses on health care, Harris has also enjoyed success as a physician and businessman.

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