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Wednesday, February i, 2012
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Merger: Systems focus changing
Work began last month on the $7
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Masses in the fall semester.
I he instructional center will ofler a
range of two- and four-year under¬
graduate programs, graduate programs
and professional development oppor¬
tunities.
In addition, North Georgia's MBA
program, currently in the Cumming
City Hall building, will move to the
new facility.
As for the merger, the University
System of Georgia is shifting its
focus toward having more students
complete degrees and away from
enrollment numbers and new build
ings.
“That's really the bigger question,”
Wrigley said. “How should the
University System of Georgia look, be
organized, in order to be better and to
provide more opportunities for stu¬
dents’"
He said the merger has been in ihe
works at least since the day he started
at the Board of Regents on July 1.
Few states have attempted college
consolidations, hut Wrigley said he
thinks other states will follow suit if
Georgia is successful. *
While the Board of Regents is
emphasizing a desire to increase aca¬
demic opportunities through the merg
ct Wrigley said Gainesville State
students w ill almost immediately have
At a glance
The following are on the Gainesville State College and North Georgia
College & State University consolidation committee:
• Al Panu, vice president for academic affairs, GSC
• Alicia Caudill, associate vice president of student affairs, GSC
• MaryTransue, vice president for institutional advancement, GSC
•Wanda Alridge, interim vice president for business and finance, GSC
• Billy Wells, military programs vice president, executive affairs, NGCSU
• Mac McConnell, vice president business and finance, NGCSU
• Chris Stenander, Alumni Council chairman, GSC
• Bob Babich
• Doug Parks
• Chaudron Gille, associate vice president for academic affairs, professor
of French, GSC
• Ric Kabat, professor of history, GSC
• Bob Michael, Deans' Council School of Education, NGCSU
• Dianna Spence, math department, NGCSU
•Jeffrey Marker, associate professor of film and English, chairman of
Faculty Senate, GSC
• Michael Proulx, Faculty Sdnate NGCSU History & Philosophy
• Rich White, GSC Foundation chairman, alumnus
• Mary Helen McGruder, NGCSU
• Susan Daniell, banner specialist, GSC
• Darcy Hayes, student affairs, NGCSU
• Kristen Roney, assistant academic vice president for academic affairs.
GSC
•Dylan Brooks, Student Government Association, GSC
• David J. Bonham, Corps of Cadets, NGCSU
• Patrick Pickens, Student Government Association, NGCSU
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greater access to more four-year
deprCC programs an d ^ aduate degree
programs as a result . fiscal . issues
arean im P° rtant P art of ,be Proposal.
I he system has lost SI billion in
funding over the past four years, and
C hancellor Hank Huckaby speaks
often about the new normal when it
co ™f s *° funding
We don t have to keep thinking that
we 11 sit still until things return to the
way they were, because that's not
going to happen,” W'rigley said.
So the chancellor s view is we re
going to move forward, deal with the
reality at hand and find different
ways to organize ourselves to make
sure we’re still offering the kinds of
opportunities to students that we need
to."
To date, the state’s system is “well
down the road” toward implementa¬
tion of the merger, Wrigley said.
The schools have begun to work
toward merging the computer systems
for the eight schools chosen, Wrigley
said.
Each of the institutions has "consol¬
idation working groups” to work as a
sounding board for ideas on how to
proceed with certain aspects of the
merger.
School officials hope to have it com¬
plete by fall 2013.
“We know that change always
brings fear and raises questions,” said
Philip Wilheit, an at-large member of
the Board of Regents.
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INCIDENT REPORTS
Editor's note: The following reports
came from the listed agency.
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Copper wire taken - An employee
of Sawnee EMC reported Jan . 4 that
while changing out a power meter
at an unoccupied business on
Pendley Road, others noticed
someone had stripped copper from
a p 0wer p 0 | e anc j main power
source going to the business.The
value of the copper was estimated
at about $550.
Vehicle cleared out - A man who
| ives on Monet Drive rep0 rted Jan.
6 that his vehicle had been ran
sacked and about $2,800 worth of
items were stolen.The missing
items included sunglasses, gift
cards, compact discs, assorted fish¬
ing lures and flies and clothing.
Disappearing cash - A Stream Side
Court resident reported Jan. 7 that
$3,390 in cash was missing from his
home.The man told deputies he
suspected a nurse who had come to
take care of his mother at the house.
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Improvements w ill include connect¬
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roads. They will then flow together
and join Meadow, which will be
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Stolen gun - A man reported Jan. 7
that his .22-caliber rifle was stolen
from the backseat of his vehicle
Loire Drive.The investigating depu
ty noted it appeared someone used
a coat hanger to enter the vehic , e .
Ring removed - An Angler's Rest
Road resident reported Jan. 7 that
his $800 wedding band was miss¬
ing from his bedroom.The man
suspected a maid who cleaned his
house the day before took the ring.
Canoe missing - A man reported
Jan. 7 that his $1,000 canoe was
stolen from the dock behind his
home on Browne Circle. He said the
vessel was a Coleman and had
been spray painted with a camou¬
flage pattern.
Entering auto - An $800 laptop
computer was reported stolen Jan.
10 from a vehicle on Falls Landing
Drive.The owner said the door had
been left unlocked and a leather
laptop bag, two pairs of sunglasses
and two non-prescription medica¬
tions were also missing.
Romero Valdez
pounds a sup¬
port post into
the ground on a
road construc¬
tion site at Mary
Alice Park Road
and Hwy. 9 in
Cumming.The
project is expect¬
ed to improve
the confusing
intersection.
Jim Dean
Forsyth County News
Meadow will then meet Atlanta
Highway at a traffic light, and stop
signs w ill be added at Mary Alice Park
and Bald Ridge roads.
Upgrades will include making all the
intersections 90-degree angles, as well
as leveling some hills to flatten the
topography, and improving grades of
roads, which will be straightened as
much as possible.