Webcast Message from President Leland
Welcome to the Georgia College web pages
As President, I am constantly thrilled to hear our students talk about Georgia College and their experiences here. Over and over again, they tell me about their relationships with their professors, about their activities with their peers, about how much they are learning both inside and outside the classroom, and how very much they value and appreciate the beautiful campus.
What thrills me most about these conversations is that our students are telling me directly that we are fulfilling our mission. We are successfully providing students with the educational experiences typical of esteemed private liberal arts colleges, including providing the close faculty involvement and the extended learning opportunities that affect students beyond their classes. And, of great importance to our students and their parents, we provide this superior academic environment at a very affordable public university price.
Throughout the state of Georgia and, increasingly, throughout the southeast and the nation, Georgia College is recognized as an academically competitive and challenging, student-centered university that offers an attractive range of liberal arts and sciences programs, along with professional programs in business, education and the health sciences.
Our faculty members take teaching to heart. They work diligently with the students, providing personal guidance and involving them in research, internships and service-learning activities. Our campus provides ample leadership opportunities, lectures by distinguished scholars, and arts and cultural events that round out the students' education and perspective.
Georgia College is truly a wonderful, magical place. Students feel a personal connection to a tight-knit community on our historic Milledgeville campus. Whether walking to classes across the green spaces or sitting beneath the Corinthian columns that so attractively set off the entrances to many of our buildings, students feel at home here. Yet within this stately and historic ambiance, we provide all the technological and state-of-the-art facilities that one expects of today's best campuses. We are one of the nation's top 50 wireless campuses, enabling students to log on to their laptops while enjoying the shade of an old oak tree or while sampling a latte on a cafe patio. With several recent additional buildings, our residential facilities are among the finest in the nation, and now include several residential learning communities for students with similar interests.
Our graduate programs are also highly regarded. In addition to programs on the Milledgeville main campus, we offer graduate and continuing studies opportunities in Macon, at Robins Air Force Base, and online. Our Macon Center is located in the historic Jefferson Building downtown, an easy access point for the city's teachers, nurses, business professionals and others who seek to enhance their career opportunities and options with an additional degree. Regardless of the location for their education, we are serious about providing our graduate students the knowledge and skills that will enable them to excel in their chosen professions.
I hope my comments have piqued your interest to learn more about Georgia College. Please come visit us and find out for yourself just what a marvelous place this is.
President Dorothy Leland
ABOUT GEORGIA COLLEGE: Georgia College & State University, the state's designated Public Liberal Arts University, combines the educational experience expected at esteemed private liberal arts colleges with the affordability of public higher education. Its four colleges - arts and sciences, business, education and health sciences - provide 6,600 undergraduate and graduate students with an exceptional learning environment that extends beyond the classroom, with hands-on involvement with faculty research, community service, residential learning communities, study abroad and myriad internships.
