According to a recent article in The Washington Post (Nick Anderson, “Georgia State U.—A Hotbed of Growth and Innovation,” October 1, 2015), Georgia State University in Atlanta is fast closing on the heels of the University of Georgia to become “the largest public university in Georgia.” It is predicted that, with its absorption of Georgia Perimeter College, enrollment will “surge past 50,000, making GSU the nation’s latest mega-university.” (For more on the University System of Georgia’s consolidation of Georgia colleges and universities, seehttp://www.usg.edu/consolidation/).

The article presents some experiments that GSU President Mark P. Becker has been conducting with small groups of students (100-200) aimed at providing students with financial, educational, and other similar problems with extra attention and help in an attempt to retain at-risk students and, perhaps, increase the six-year graduation rate.

Becker also predicts the “Amazonification of higher education,” where course selections will be recommended to students based on previous choices and grades: “We’re not there yet,” Becker is quoted as saying. However, Becker’s goal, says Anderson is for GSU “to give tens of thousands of students just what they need, and just when they need it.”