The merit-based scholarship is facing extraordinary issues due to declining lottery revenue College students in Georgia often joke about “losing HOPE,” but that joke is beginning to look more like a possible reality. The HOPE Scholarship is under scrutiny from the Georgia Legislature in an effort to save the program from failing.
Governor Nathan Deal announced in his State of the State address Jan. 12 that over the next 18 months “state university programs would see their funding cut about $300 million,” reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Deal proposed this during his first week in office and now it is up to the legislature to approve it or [...]
The Academic Policy Committee is continuing to gather information about and consider the introduction of a plus/minus grading scale for Georgia College students. “There are no proposals from this committee yet. We are in a fact-finding stance,” Lee Gillis member of the Academic Policy Committee said at the Jan. 24 forum.
Phillip Joiner, city council representative for District 4, is attending a court ordered inpatient treatment for alcohol, according to Baldwin County court documents and Maxine Blackwell, solicitor general of Baldwin County. Joiner must remain in a Lawrenceville treatment center for a minimum of 28 days and can only be released by the program’s director when [...]
To aid student transportation, Georgia College has purchased three new shuttle buses to take students around Main Campus as well as to and from West Campus. “It has been an on going project for almost four years,” said Greg Brown, the project director and associate director of Auxiliary Services.
Women use stout defensive efforts to move into second in PBC West After starting its Peach Belt Conference Schedule with three consecutive losses, the Georgia College women’s basketball team has responded with four straight wins, the latest a 57-42 triumph over Montevallo Jan. 22, pushing them into second place in the PBC West division. Senior [...]
