President Peterson has announced his retirement

gtphd said:
uga’s education is like the buffet at a low rent strip club: it’s not the reason you’re there, it’s not going to be good for you, and might run into @Akinji07
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There arent any buffets in strip clubs in Atlanta. This isnt Florida we got standards. Talk to @GTlee.
 
It's fun to belittle UGA engineering but there's no reason to think they're only going to get stronger and stronger as the alumni base gets deeper. Regardless of how or why their rise in academic standing is going to rub off on their fledgling undergraduate engineering school.

All those resources should be at Kennesaw State/SPSU.
 
Valdosta_Jacket said:
I pulled my data from the University System of Georgia website:

https://www.usg.edu/assets/usg/docs/news_files/BOR_USG_Fall_2017_Enrollment_Report.pdf

Page 8 - 12,020 Georgia students, 9,960 out of state students, 7,389 international students. USG didn't break the data out by undergrad/grad student.

So it's actually 40% from Georgia - my bad.

I still think we need more majors and the new president should push for them. I'm also surprised we're still only at 30% female enrollment. Thought it would be higher by now. Adding more majors will bring that closer to 50-50 too.
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This 30k enrollment number includes online graduate courses, which drives up both the graduate number and the % out of state.

Georgia residents make up 62% of the incoming freshman class, which is typical of undergrad enrollment.

https://irp.gatech.edu/fact-book-online
 
sthorfinnr said:
UGAg is like the menu at Chili's. Yeah, there's lots of choices, but 3/4 of it's crap. Maybe 2 or 3 things are actually good. Tech is like Kevin Rathbuns. We do steak. That's what we do. And it's high class and damn good.
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When they got rid of the quesadilla explosion salad the entire menu became crap.
 
GTCrew4b said:
When they got rid of the quesadilla explosion salad the entire menu became crap.
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They got rid of the quesadilla explosion salad? Seriously? That along with the buffalo chicken salad were my two mainstays, a decade ago when I used to go to Chilis. The one at Lindbergh I used to go to got a lot worse and I stopped going.
 
Early candidates: https://www.ajc.com/news/local-educ...eorgia-tech-president/aOROCKvRlVtuS9G1Mw6fAI/

Since the stars are almost completely aligned on North Avenue and I've gotten most of what I wanted in my FB/AD wish list ... I'm going to keep to form in the hopes of all the stars aligning:

President Wish List:
- Mandatory: Ethics reforms
- Mandatory: Strong political relationship builder to be able to carve away at the UGAg control of the GABOR
- Mandatory: Strong financial credentials including fundraising and management (keeping costs to attend low)
- Priority: Expansionist agenda with the online "world campus" offerings and creating new global satellite campuses
- Priority: Will view the long term positive health of the athletics mission as a tool for recruitment, a means to stay connected on a fundraising basis with alumni, a way to extend the brand into every household, and in the best academic interests of the Institute in the long term. A GTAA that has an endowment that covers all operational costs is a GTAA that no longer has to have big student athletic fees or subsidies from the academic side. But let's be real here ... we need to understand that a full modernization of the GTAA including all facilities and retiring all debt and fully endowing operational costs is about a billion dollar undertaking. But if you get a President who says the right things and stops the self inflicted excessive and pointless academic wounds and starts pushing for increased endowments and performance from both the athletic and academic side ... give Stansbury some leash to get creative financially (naming rights to venues etc) ... hit up the big money alumni and big dollar pro alumni ... with all the other things aligned so nicely ... I think you can shake the money tree and get your billion dollars over 10-20 years or so. It can be done.
- Priority: Will deal with the things we all know GT doesn't do a good job at and, in at least some cases as we've recently discovered, that's due to graft and corruption. The usual stuff: dining, mental health services, a stockade outside the Edge Center to pillory kamikaze scooter riders, dorms, making parking a priority in the long term campus plan, etc.
 
georgia_tech_swagger said:
Early candidates: https://www.ajc.com/news/local-educ...eorgia-tech-president/aOROCKvRlVtuS9G1Mw6fAI/

Since the stars are almost completely aligned on North Avenue and I've gotten most of what I wanted in my FB/AD wish list ... I'm going to keep to form in the hopes of all the stars aligning:

President Wish List:
- Mandatory: Ethics reforms
- Mandatory: Strong political relationship builder to be able to carve away at the UGAg control of the GABOR
- Mandatory: Strong financial credentials including fundraising and management (keeping costs to attend low)
- Priority: Expansionist agenda with the online "world campus" offerings and creating new global satellite campuses
- Priority: Will view the long term positive health of the athletics mission as a tool for recruitment, a means to stay connected on a fundraising basis with alumni, a way to extend the brand into every household, and in the best academic interests of the Institute in the long term. A GTAA that has an endowment that covers all operational costs is a GTAA that no longer has to have big student athletic fees or subsidies from the academic side. But let's be real here ... we need to understand that a full modernization of the GTAA including all facilities and retiring all debt and fully endowing operational costs is about a billion dollar undertaking. But if you get a President who says the right things and stops the self inflicted excessive and pointless academic wounds and starts pushing for increased endowments and performance from both the athletic and academic side ... give Stansbury some leash to get creative financially (naming rights to venues etc) ... hit up the big money alumni and big dollar pro alumni ... with all the other things aligned so nicely ... I think you can shake the money tree and get your billion dollars over 10-20 years or so. It can be done.
- Priority: Will deal with the things we all know GT doesn't do a good job at and, in at least some cases as we've recently discovered, that's due to graft and corruption. The usual stuff: dining, mental health services, a stockade outside the Edge Center to pillory kamikaze scooter riders, dorms, making parking a priority in the long term campus plan, etc.
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Most of the names being discussed by students look like a social justice wish list of millennials. The former Vassar President? Give me a break. Dumb list is dumb.
 
savbandjacket said:
Most of the names being discussed by students look like a social justice wish list of millennials. The former Vassar President? Give me a break. Dumb list is dumb.
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Students at a College/University/Institute put way too much importance on their opinion. You are there for 4 years. There have been many tens of thousands of graduates before you, there will be many tens of thousands of graduates after you. The decision needs to be the best for the Institute. It isn't a social platform.
 
georgia_tech_swagger said:
But let's be real here ... we need to understand that a full modernization of the GTAA including all facilities and retiring all debt and fully endowing operational costs is about a billion dollar undertaking.
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I don't have any comment on your overall points, but just wanted to note that to fully endow all the GTAA's operational costs would actually require $2.4 bil. Total operating costs for the GTAA in 2017 was $72 mil. Of course, to be fair, that's not something any program in the country does or is even trying to do. We do still sell tickets, get conference distributions, etc.
 
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