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GACHE DIRECTOR
Shirley Davis has been appointed the first director of the Georgia Appalachian Center for
Higher Education (GACHE), located at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega.
GACHE is funded by Appalachian Regional Commission grants and other matching funds.
GACHE seeks to encourage and assist at-risk Appalachian Georgia high school students to continue their
education and to increase college enrollment rates in selected communities.
Davis’ teaching experience includes working with minority, low
socio-economic, and at-risk students in numerous inner city schools in
metropolitan Atlanta and throughout the state.
Davis, a native of Lumpkin County, grew up in the North Georgia mountain
area of Suches and graduated from Woody Gap High School, where she later
served as principal. She received her bachelor’s degree in education from
Georgia Southern College and a master of education degree in Administration
and Supervision as well as an education specialist degree in leadership from
the University of Georgia.
Davis has served as the assistant director of the Okefenokee Science
Curriculum Project and instructed pre-service teachers at Emory University,
Agnes Scott College, and Georgia State University. She spent four years as
the administrator of Public School Standards with the Georgia Department of
Education before accepting an appointment in Gwinnett County and spending 17
years as an elementary principal and also opening two new schools.
The new GACHE director may be contacted at gache@ngcsu.edu or
by calling (706)864-1995.
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