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Sunday, January 04, 2009
Trying to get more out of less: Mergers will allow state technical colleges to save money, preserve services - Laura Raines, Journal-Constitution
Corporations merge all the time. Colleges and universities almost never do. Yet by July 1, 13 colleges in the Technical College System of Georgia will have merged into six new educational institutions.... Merged colleges plan to share instructors and use distance learning to enhance course offerings.... Merging gave Chandler’s faculty an opportunity to look differently at dual enrollment, which lets high school students earn technical college credit before graduating, and can contribute to lowering the dropout rate. “The city of Marietta school system wanted a horticulture program in the high school, but they couldn’t bus the students to Paulding, where our program was located,” Chandler said. A new hybrid course that would involve some online lab courses, some on-site college instruction at the high school and local businesses getting involved to teach practical skills is being planned.
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