INTRODUCTION

Dr. Leland "As Georgia's designated public liberal arts university, Georgia College & State University offers the kind of education found in exceptional private colleges but at public university prices. Georgia College helps to keep Georgia's brightest students in the state by providing an engaging academic experience in a small-town, residential campus setting – small classes, active learning, exemplary undergraduate teaching, interactions with faculty inside and outside the classroom, significant and sustained opportunities to work with faculty on research and creative projects, residential learning, expansion of global awareness through study abroad, learning experiences in civic engagement and leadership development. Students learn to think creatively, communicate effectively, work well with others to solve problems, learn and adapt quickly, and apply cross-disciplinary approaches to difficult issues in order to find solutions. These are the graduates who are equipped to help create the strong knowledge economy, an economy based on innovation, that our state so desperately needs."

Dorothy Leland

President