Record number of students enrolled at North Georgia

DAHLONEGA – With 4,765 students now attending North Georgia College & State University, the institution has the largest enrollment in its history.

The fall 2005 enrollment of North Georgia has increased by 4.7 percent over fall semester last year, the second highest growth rate of the 13 state universities plus the four research universities and two regional universities in the University System of Georgia.

“We are pleased to be able to serve the increasing educational needs of our region and our state,” said NGCSU President David Potter. “And we are grateful that students turn to North Georgia for their education.

Only Savannah State University increased by a larger percentage than NGCSU, 10.4 percent for a total of 3,091 students.          

The 3,488 students enrolled full-time at North Georgia make up 73.2 percent of the total “head count” enrollment.

“We appreciate the support our state legislature has provided to meet these enrollment increases through its funding for higher education,” Potter said. “The state's recognition of the importance of higher education for Georgia's future is most heartening.”

The University System of Georgia fall enrollment report shows a seventh consecutive year of growth in attendance at the state’s public colleges and universities.

PHILANTHROPY FOR THE HOLIDAYS: North Georgia College & State University President David Potter and Dahlonega Mayor Gary McCullough volunteered to be waiters Dec. 5 at Pizza Hut to raise money for the Community Helping Place White Christmas program, which supplies food to needy families in the community during the holidays. More than $900 from tips and pizza sales went to the charity. "It's quite refreshing to see the president taking time out of his day to do this for the community," said NGCSU Assistant Professor Michael Marling. Ministerial Association and CHP White Christmas volunteers also participated. More Community Helping Place support came through the NGCSU Staff Council with members collecting from faculty and staff more than 1,436 lbs. of food, as well as toys and money, on Dec. 8. North Georgia students in Greek organizations contributed new sports equipment, more than $600 worth, to the CHP through their own fundraiser.
 

'Echoes of Appalachia,' tapestry and fabric art exhibit, at NGCSU, Nov. 10-Jan. 20
 

Tapestry by Tommye Scanlin
Tapestry by Pat Williams
Fabric collage by Diane Getty

DAHLONEGA – "Echoes of Appalachia," an art exhibition featuring tapestries and fabric collages centering on motifs and themes from Appalachia, is on display Nov. 10 through Jan. 20 at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega.

Artists Tommye Scanlin, Pat Williams and Diane Getty will be at an opening reception on Nov. 10, 5-7 p.m., in the Hoag Student Center fine arts gallery. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Contact Pamela Sachant, NGCSU Department of Fine Arts, at psachant@ngcsu.edu or 706-864-1512 for more information.

Artists:

Tommye Scanlin is professor emerita and part-time instructor of weaving at NGCSU. She says of her work, which has been exhibited nationally and internationally and featured in numerous publications, “[It] is mainly pictorial. I weave images based upon ideas, images and events relevant to my life.”

Pat Williams, who lives and teaches in Habersham County, is inspired in her tapestries by scenery and people she encounters in her daily life. “For a number of years, it has been my practice to arise early to meditate, journal and then weave. Perhaps as a result of this routine my work often has an autobiographical quality.”

Diane Getty began her artistic career as a metalworker and jeweler; she now creates hand-painted and stitched-fabric collages and teaches workshops in fabric and fiber arts, collage, and other media. “I work with both natural images and abstract symbols,” Getty says, “to explore themes ranging from games, politics, and humorous aspects of life [to] my fondness for coffee.”

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