Maimon: First freshmen making GSU a ‘lively’ place

This new academic year at Governors State University isn’t quite like those of years past.

This is the year GSU converts from an upper-division college to a four-year university, which means it welcomed its first freshman class.

University officials on Friday held a variety of ceremonies to celebrate the roughly 240 freshman students in this year’s student body. University President Elaine Maimon said they were adding a new sense of life to the campus built in the cornfields west of University Park…Please click here to read Gregory Tejeda’s story in the Times.