News articles & other info
Technical and academic college merger not likely
Rockdale Citizen, 10/1/09
BOC supports keeping GPC,
DeKalb Tech separate
Covington News, 9/29/09
College and University Mergers: Recent Trends
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, July 2009
Education letters (letter from GPC professor is the last one listed
- Merger debate shut out community colleges"
AJC, 6/29/09
Tenure
and the Two-Year College - The war against tenure may begin at community
colleges but it's unlikely to end
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/19/09 (article by Rob Jenkins)
A MUST READ!
Education working group proposes overhaul - Report
considers merger of community, technical school
Covington News, 4/24/09
Related editorial
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That’s what we
thought, 4/25/09
Statement by GA gubernatorial candidate David Poythress regarding merger,
3/10/09
Community colleges
squeezed from both sides -
msnbc.com, 3/2/09
See page 2 for section on
Georgia "community colleges". The national media is now covering this
even though the Atlanta media won't.
A MUST READ!
Proposed GHC Merger - Six Mile Post (Georgia Highlands College
student newspaper), 2/17/09
Final paragraphs of article -
"However, a Kentucky newspaper reported last March that after more
than a decade since that state's technical colleges and community
colleges merged fewer students were transferring.
According to the news report, reasons for the decline in transfer
students included university requirements that make it difficult to
transfer credits and universities' reluctant to recruit students from
Kentucky's Community and Technical College System."
System hurts Kentucky college transfer students. Switch from community
colleges to state universities can be difficult, costly.
Louisville Courier-Journal, 3/23/08
ALSO
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Leave two-year colleges alone. - Six Mile Post (Georgia Highlands College
student newspaper), 2/17/09
Email to GPC community
regarding the 2/8 Albany Herald article
Dr. Beth Jensen, 2/13/09
BOC picks
legislative agenda -
Covington News, 2/8/09
Transportation,
homeowner's relief, GPC top concerns
Merger
worries jump the gun
- Albany Herald, 2/8/09
Interesting that
Brantley says that the governor "has not even heard these
recommendations yet." . According to Alford in the 1/11 Rockdale
Citizen article below, the governor was scheduled to review the
report Monday Jan. 12.
State's schools should not be merged
- Augusta Chronicle, 2/7/09
Square Peg, Round Hole? - Inside Higher Ed, 2/6/09 (See Responses)
Merger concerns faculty, students
- Albany Herald, 2/3/09
Report says Georgia's two-year, technical colleges should merge
VIDEO - WFXL.com, 2/2/09
Some Darton
students upset over merger proposal - WALB.com News, 2/2/09
EAST GEORGIA COLLEGE WILL REMAIN OPEN!
- Swainsboro Forest-Blade, 1/30/09
Georgia’s Two Year Colleges May Become a Thing of the Past -
WSAV.com, 1/28/09
Contains response from East Georgia College Faculty Association
Our Thoughts... College collapse
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Covington News, 1/27/09
Many leery of 2-year college proposal - GPC professor,
students share their opinions of merger draft -
Covington News, 1/27/09
Report recommends closure of GPC - Covington News,
1/24/09
Form
letter response from Governor Perdue, 1/23/09
The same response was received by all who have written
the Governor on this issue.
Email - Chancellor Davis's remarks at Bainbridge College
- 1/23/09
Davis grilled on budget issues - Athens
Banner-Herald , 1/22/09
University system chancellor bombarded at legislative
hearing
Response
from Dr. Rob Watts regarding letter to Chancellor Davis,
1/23/09
Editorial: Davis' zeal may be too much of good thing
- Athens Banner-Herald, 1/25/09
Our Views: Budget cuts should spare sacred cows -
Gainesville Times, 1/25/09
State should trim waste, tap surplus, delay new projects
before axing health, education, tax relief
College cuts irk area rep - Athens Banner-Herald,
1/24/09
Georgia’s university system grilled by state budget
writers - AJC, 1/22/09
Chancellor defends university system budget -
Atlanta Business Chronicle, 1/22/09
Perdue Plan Could Make Waycross College A Tech School
- Waycross Journal-Herald, 1/16/09
Group to propose changes in secondary education -
Rockdale Citizen, 1/11/09
Merger
of Coosa Valley Tech and Georgia Highlands?- Coosa
Valley News, 1/8/09
Proposal would have technical board oversee state’s
two-year colleges - Rome News-Tribune, 1/8/09
State
debates combining college systems - Gainesville Times, 1/7/09 |
The Governor's "Tough Choices or Tough Times"
working group has posted various documents.
Georgia's "Tough Choices or Tough
Times" Working Group
There is also a December 15 document that
the working group has not yet posted for whatever reason.
Below are the two major points of concern.
12/15/08 Draft Outline of Recommendations
a. Adopt a statewide definition of “ready” as no
remediation needed for college or work entry and prohibit students from moving
on until they are “ready.” This will further the work already well underway by
GaDOE, USG, and TCSG, which aligns high school graduation requirements with
college entry and placement, thereby reducing the need for remediation upon
entering college. This will also reduce the need for remediation of skills upon
entering the workforce as studies have shown that the skills needed for today’s
workforce and college are similar.
d. Clarify the missions of Georgia’s
post-secondary institutions by (a) charging the current Technical College System
to administer all technical and 2-year academic programs offered in Georgia,
thus building a Technical and Academic College System of Georgia (TACSG); b)
charging the University System of Georgia to focus exclusively on research,
4-year degree programs, and graduate programs; and c) creating and enforcing
pathways for student transfer between institutions and systems by forming
comprehensive articulation agreements that clearly establish procedures
governing the transfer of credits from one institution to another.
Tough
Times broadcast archive video - 1/22/09
(This is a Windows Media Player video.)
Chancellor Erroll Davis of the
University System of Georgia spoke at a Georgia House budget hearing.
The merger was not mentioned in his speech, but several legislators
asked about it.
To get to the chancellor's speech, fast forward (using the bar at the
bottom left) to 01:45:00.
The chancellor is followed by the commissioner of the Technical
College System, and it lasts about 3 hours.
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