A State College Begins to Transform Its Curriculum
When Stephen R. Portch became chancellor of the University System of Georgia in 1994 he traveled the state, hearing the same pitch, again and again: Georgia needed a public liberal-arts college. In 1996 the regents designated Georgia College & State University, a regional institution in Milledgeville, the state's antebellum capital and home of the writer Flannery O'Connor, as Georgia's public liberal-arts college. Actually transforming it into one has been a slower process.
Full text article by Karin Fischer is available via The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/28/10.
Labels: Georgia College and State University, higher education, public liberal-arts college, University System of Georgia

