The4thOption
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RE: Why hate State? ...THAT'S WHY!
(10-24-2014 11:09 AM)Panthersville Wrote: (10-24-2014 08:34 AM)Eagles Cliff Wrote: This is all about the divide between North Georgia and South Georgia. Georgia Southern has had to scratch and claw to grow and add graduate prograrams, gain university status, add football, and become a research university. The four designated research universities in the state are all above the fall line (columbus through macon to augusta) which reflects the power differential of Atlanta-metro vs the rest of the state. Our PBS network used to have the slogan "Serving Atlanta - and all of Georgia".
The crime here is that Atlanta is not representative of Georgia at all. Since Sherman burned it to the ground, it was rebuilt by Carpetbaggers as a Southeastern distribution hub where Yankee businesses could anchor in the South. Half of the Metro's 5 million people are from out-of-state.
Georgia Southern is a Carnegie Doctoral Research University, but our Board of Regents classify us as a Regional University alongside Valdosta State because Research Status would open the door to more funding and graduate programs which UGA and Tech won't allow.
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Meanwhile, a commuter school in downtown Atlanta is allowed to fund football with 86% subsidy and cram 5,000 people in another state-funded facility at the Georgia World Congress Center. The school itself was created as a convenience to working people in Atlanta avoiding a 45 minute drive to Athens to work on their degree. In today's political environment, Ga State is an homage to Atlanta's city politics as they try to put lipstick on the dumpster-fire-pig that is a crime and poverty ridden downtown cesspool.
Students from the Atlanta suburbs started making Ga Southern their FIRST CHOICE over UGA over a decade ago because they visited the only real "college town" left in the state and loved it.
This post is so full of dumbassery you may just have to be added to the ignore list.
- GaSo is not listed by Carnegie as a "Research Universities (very high research activity)" - which is the designation achieved by all of the BOR Research Universities.
- Our school was created to help people avoid going to Athens to work on their degree? Wow - that will be a surprise to those people over at Tech who think that our school was born as their "Evening School of Commerce".
- GaSo experienced an influx of students for the same reason West Georgia, North Georgia, GSU and Kennesaw did. When the HOPE scholarship came around, kids who would have otherwise gone out-of state opted to go to UGA. UGA became far more competitive, the rest of the schools got more students. Had nothing to do with your sad-arse "college town".
I sure hope that ignorance is bliss, because you are chock-full of it.
About your reply: "That post reply is so full of dumbassery " is what I think of it.
Sounds to me like he was pretty much right on the money!
Our History
"Our History
When First District Agricultural & Mechanical School’s inaugural academic year began in 1908, few could have foreseen a major American university growing out of four faculty members and 15 students in just a little more than one lifetime.
Now in its second century of service, Georgia Southern boasts 20,000-plus students, 2,000 faculty and staff, and more than 100 programs of study at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels.
Founded as a school for teaching modern agricultural production techniques and homemaking skills to rural schoolchildren, then-First District A&M School began within two decades to shift its emphasis to meet the growing need for teachers within the state. Its name and mission were changed in 1924 to Georgia Normal School as a training ground for educators, though it continued to accept “preparatory” or high school students. Five years later in 1929, full-fledged senior college status was granted as South Georgia Teachers College.
Ensuing decades saw additional name and mission changes: to Georgia Teachers College in 1939 and Georgia Southern College in 1959. Continued program and physical expansion, including one seven-year stretch, [b]1984-91 in which enrollment doubled from just over 6,000 to more than 12,000 students, led to a final transformation in 1990 – to Georgia Southern University.
NOTE: We restarted Football in 1984/ Hope didn't start until 1993
Since then, the University has embarked on a massive upgrade of facilities, adding more than $250 million in new construction. At the same time, it has repurposed older buildings, primarily residence halls, to serve teaching and administrative needs.
Georgia Southern has become the largest and most comprehensive university in the southern half of Georgia, classified as a Doctoral/Research University by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Added emphasis on serving returning veterans has earned the University a “military-friendly” designation from Military Advanced Education.Kiplinger has named Georgia Southern a “Top 100 Best Value.” The average freshman SAT score of 1115 ranks above state and national averages. The University hosts students from 47 U.S. states and 89 nations and alumni reside in every U.S. state and 75 nations.
The new millennium has seen the formation of two new colleges: the the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Additional undergraduate and graduate programs have been established that include doctoral degrees in psychology, education, logistics and supply chain management, public health, and nursing.
The growing demand for online learning has brought online bachelor’s degrees in business, nursing, and information technology. Master’s programs are offered online in business, accounting, economics, computer science, coaching, kinesiology, and a broad choice of education fields.
Georgia Southern’s athletics program has a long and storied history, rich with tradition born of success. The University has not only produced conference and national champions, but has parlayed private support into significantly enhanced facilities – crucial to the recruitment and retention of top athletes.
Intercollegiate athletic success – including six NCAA National Championships in football – has had a powerfully positive effect on the University’s public persona and pride of faculty, staff and students. All sports compete at the NCAA’s highest level with football, formerly FCS, joining the FBS ranks in fall 2014.
The University enhancing its profile with the addition of an ROTC building and a student Health Services complex while it remains ever vigilant for new opportunities to address emerging academic needs. Just as in the days of First District A&M and old ‘T.C., Georgia Southern University is eagerly pursuing new avenues to meet the challenges of a changing world."
(This post was last modified: 10-24-2014 11:47 AM by The4thOption.)
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