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.
A new vaccine-delivery patch based on hundreds of microscopic needles that dissolve into the skin could allow persons without medical training to painlessly administer vaccines — while providing improved immunization against diseases such as influenza. Details of the dissolving microneedle patches and immunization benefits observed in experimental mice were reported in the advance online publication of the journal Nature Medicine. Conducted by researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, the study is believed to be the first to evaluate the immunization benefits of dissolving microneedles. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. invites you to read the Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Report of the University System of Georgia. The report focuses on progress in FY09 toward meeting the Board of Regents’ six strategic goals, significant activities occurring during the fiscal year and the effect the strategies have on programs on individuals.
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.
Georgia ONmyLINE is a searchable catalog of quality online courses and programs offered by all 35 University System of Georgia institutions statewide. It’s the quick and easy way to access 169 programs and nearly 2,870 courses. Students who seek fully online solutions, as well as on-campus students who seek online courses to meet their scheduling needs, can search for online programs and courses, apply for admission, and register for courses at Georgia ONmyLINE.
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