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Columns::August 20, 2001
Digest
Summer enrollment sets new record
The university’s official enrollment for summer semester was 14,510, up 6 percent over last year and the largest enrollment ever for a summer term.
This year’s enrollment was 819 more than the 13,691 students who attended summer classes in 2000.
The 14,510 is a “head count”--the number of people who registered for one or more classes during the summer. Many of these students were not taking a full course load of 15 credit hours.
The equivalent full-time enrollment for summer is 6,178, compared to 5,732 last year, a 7.8 percent jump. EFT enrollment converts the head-count number into a figure that indicates what enrollment would be if the entire head count were taking full course loads.
UGA and all institutions in the University System of Georgia receive state funding based on a formula calculated on EFT enrollment.
Head-count enrollment at the undergraduate level totaled 9,703, an increase of 618 (6.8 percent) over last summer. Graduate student enrollment totaled 4,178, up by 136 students (3.4 percent) over last year.
The university’s professional schools--law, pharmacy and veterinary medicine--had a total of 375 students, a 30.2 percent jump over last summer’s total of 288.
A total of 254 students enrolled in independent study, down by 22 from last year.
Registrar Gary Moore said part of the reason for this summer’s increase is that Freshman College enrollment increased from 168 to 268. Freshman College brings freshmen to campus to attend classes and take part in special programs during the summer.
Other factors that may have contributed to the higher summer enrollment, Moore said, are continued robust growth in the Terry College of Business, and a larger number of students either taking courses they could not get during the regular school year, or completing course work to speed up their graduation. The economic slowdown could also be a factor because people often choose to go to school when employment dips, Moore noted.
Kundell named to state water committee
James E. Kundell, director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government’s Environmental Policy Program, has been sworn in as a member of Gov. Roy Barnes’s special advisory committee on the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin compacts.
The group will provide both technical and strategic advice as water allocation proposals are reviewed for the two river basins. Barnes will then determine whether the state of Georgia should accept, reject or suggest changes to each of the proposed formulas.
A science adviser to the Georgia General Assembly, Kundell is also chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Joint House/Senate State Water Plan Study Committee created by the passage of SR 142 during the 2001 session of the Georgia General Assembly. The Study Committee is charged with establishing the procedures and framework for developing a comprehensive state water management plan for Georgia.
Kundell also is policy director of UGA’s new River Basin Science and Policy Center.
UGA grad one of four AJC honor teachers
Heather Lubeck, a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at Seaborn Lee Elementary School in College Park and a UGA education graduate, was one of four Georgia teachers selected for Atlanta Journal-Constitution Honor Teacher Awards for 2001.
The newspaper annually recognizes the best and the brightest in the teaching profession with its Honor Teacher Awards in four categories: elementary, middle, high school and special education. Nearly 500 teachers were nominated this year from metro Atlanta and the state.
Lubeck, a classroom teacher for about three years, won the AJC’s highest teacher award for special education. She received her bachelor of science degree in educational psychology from UGA in 1995 and a master of education, in learning disabilities, from Georgia State University in 1998.
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