President Peterson has announced his retirement

18in32

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You can have a very good football program and still graduate students that use their degrees to make millions of dollars. Georgia Tech doesn't have a lock on all the great jobs in America or prestige. The former chairman of Augusta National made a good living and did ok with his degree. And his football team doesn't usually suck.
Actually Bobby Jones is the president in perpetuity of Augusta National. And I agree that his team, GT, doesn't usually suck.
 

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Good riddance. Under his direction, GT has mostly held serve or lost ground on academics, become less competitive in every single sport, has violated students' rights to due process, had ethics violations galore, and has idly watched as its peers have expanded their curriculum and footprint. I'll take my chances with the new guy.
I could not agree more. Add in that he led the NCAA against local jurisdictions. IMO he simply rarely represented the somewhat conservatives school, students and alumni. (Understand that Tech’s own are rarely emotional about issues but rather are introspective and analytical, naturally becoming conservative using the same skills honed at Tech.)
 

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Georgia Tech is not MIT. In addition to its great academic reputation, it has a long, rich history of having successful athletics at the highest level. The Institute needs a President that will understand and attempt to grow and improve all aspects of what Georgia Tech has been historically, not worry about what MIT is.
The last I looked, MIT supports more NCAA than any other.
 

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Below is the text of an email that my sister (a GT student who graduated in December) forwarded to me this morning. President Peterson has announced his retirement to the campus body.

"To the Georgia Tech campus community:

I have indicated to Chancellor Steve Wrigley my desire to step down as president of Georgia Tech this coming summer. While we have not identified a specific date, I anticipate that in the coming weeks, he will establish a search committee and that I will continue to serve as president until the new president has been identified and is able to begin his/her tenure.

In 1975, I made a career change and resigned my position as an associate engineer at Black & Veatch to pursue a Ph.D. in order to work with young people through my teaching and research activities. It is my hope and expectation that upon completion of my duties as president, I will be able to return to the faculty and resume my teaching and research at Georgia Tech.

The opportunity to serve as president of Georgia Tech for the past 10 years has been one of the highlights of my career. While we have faced several challenges, I believe we are on a very positive trajectory, a trajectory that has characterized Georgia Tech and served it well for many years.

Georgia Tech is a great institution and great institutions are built on great people, great faculty, great staff and great students. Since our very first visit to Georgia Tech in the fall of 2008, Val and I have continued to be impressed with the quality of the people of Georgia Tech, and the dedication and commitment to making Georgia Tech the nationally recognized institution that it is today.

Much like the 3,500 students who graduated last December, Georgia Tech has an enormously bright future. With your continued hard work, dedication and focus on excellence, I have no doubt that we as an institution will be able to accomplish some truly remarkable things in the years to come.

In closing, I want to express my deep appreciation to each of you for all you have done as we continue to strive toward our goal of “defining the technological research university of the 21st century.” Val and I look forward to continuing to work with you through the upcoming transition period to ensure that Georgia Tech can continue its pursuit of excellence, a pursuit that has helped to make Georgia Tech one of the finest institutions of higher education in the country.


G.P. "Bud" Peterson, President
Georgia Institute of Technology"
It is a glorious time to be alive.
 

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The next president needs to be a political force in Georgia.

Uga is 4 spots behind Tech academically according to the US News public school rankings. Yes, you can argue all day long these rankings are BS, but they’re what most people go by. They’ve made great strides and somehow politicked their way to an engineering program. We need to add a law school, medical school, education college, more liberal arts, and more art and design degrees. Tech must have more robust degree choices to get to the next level. All of these can be uniquely Tech focused... IP law, STEM education, etc.

Tech also has about 30,000 (!) students now, but you’d never know it because only 30% are actually from Georgia. A shockingly low number for a public university. I don’t think cutting the pipeline to international talent is in the best interest of Tech or the state, so offering more degrees would give Georgia citizens more opportunities to receive an excellent education. Could you imagine 15,000 more local students? Attendance would skyrocket at games...
 

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The next president needs to be a political force in Georgia.

Uga is 4 spots behind Tech academically according to the US News public school rankings. Yes, you can argue all day long these rankings are BS, but they’re what most people go by. They’ve made great strides and somehow politicked their way to an engineering program. We need to add a law school, medical school, education college, more liberal arts, and more art and design degrees. Tech must have more robust degree choices to get to the next level. All of these can be uniquely Tech focused... IP law, STEM education, etc.

Tech also has about 30,000 (!) students now, but you’d never know it because only 30% are actually from Georgia. A shockingly low number for a public university. I don’t think cutting the pipeline to international talent is in the best interest of Tech or the state, so offering more degrees would give Georgia citizens more opportunities to receive an excellent education. Could you imagine 15,000 more local students? Attendance would skyrocket at games...
Good luck getting anything past the BoR that would make attendance skyrocket at games.
 

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The next president needs to be a political force in Georgia.

Uga is 4 spots behind Tech academically according to the US News public school rankings. Yes, you can argue all day long these rankings are BS, but they’re what most people go by. They’ve made great strides and somehow politicked their way to an engineering program. We need to add a law school, medical school, education college, more liberal arts, and more art and design degrees. Tech must have more robust degree choices to get to the next level. All of these can be uniquely Tech focused... IP law, STEM education, etc.

Tech also has about 30,000 (!) students now, but you’d never know it because only 30% are actually from Georgia. A shockingly low number for a public university. I don’t think cutting the pipeline to international talent is in the best interest of Tech or the state, so offering more degrees would give Georgia citizens more opportunities to receive an excellent education. Could you imagine 15,000 more local students? Attendance would skyrocket at games...
These are great ideas.
 

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Tech also has about 30,000 (!) students now, but you’d never know it because only 30% are actually from Georgia. A shockingly low number for a public university. I don’t think cutting the pipeline to international talent is in the best interest of Tech or the state, so offering more degrees would give Georgia citizens more opportunities to receive an excellent education. Could you imagine 15,000 more local students? Attendance would skyrocket at games...
Fake News.

32% of undergrad students are from OUT of state.
12% are international.
 

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Fake News.

32% of undergrad students are from OUT of state.
12% are international.
Those factual numbers are so out of line with most public schools there's no need to embellish them.

Diversifying the curriculum would definitely make us more competitive for top students in state that go to UGA. Not necessarily arguing for or against.
 
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