Committed to meeting 80% of the state’s need for teachers by the year 2020, the USG “20,000 by 2020” Initiative will recruit more students interested in teaching, add teacher preparation programs and streamline the process for becoming a teacher.
Georgia College and State University teacher candidate working with students at Georgia College Early College.
Meeting the needs of a growing Georgia means the University System will need to expand its capacity by up to 40% to serve an additional 100,000 students by 2020.
Georgia Gwinnett College offers leading-edge technology, personal attention and hands-on learning experiences for students who want to forge their own paths.
An ICAPP project with Georgia Tech helped tip the balance in Georgia’s favor when GE Energy located its new Smart Grid Technology Center of Excellence in Cobb County, bringing 400 new jobs and a $15 million investment to Georgia.
Georgia Tech’s Collaborative Visualization Environment (CoVE)
The need to educate more physicians in Georgia has emerged as a critical issue for all of us — educators, business executives, indeed residents of our state.
The Board of Regents is conducting a national search for the next USG chancellor. Follow the “Learn more” link to the special “Chancellor Search” website to keep informed on the search and to provide feedback to the search committee.
The number of University of Georgia Rhodes Scholars increased to 22, when Tracy Yang of Macon was named Nov. 20. The UGA Honors student has been awarded a 2011 Rhodes Scholarship to attend England’s Oxford University. She plans to pursue a master’s of science degree in global health science. Yang, also a 2010 Truman Scholar, plans to graduate from UGA in May with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology.
Dr. Susan Herbst, Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer for the University System of Georgia recently appointed the Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Georgia Tech, Dr. Donna Llewellyn, as chair of a system-wide task force to select a new learning management system for the USG designed to meet the 21st century needs of students and faculty.
The Board of Regents recently approved a new core curriculum policy for all USG students that will better prepare graduates for a global society. The new policy also enhances the USG’s transfer guarantee of core courses and strengthens the assessment of student learning in the Core. Implementation of the new core curriculum is scheduled for fall 2011 with implementation at two-year institutions in fall 2012 allowing them to align their revised core curricula with four-year institutions.
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