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Columns::March 24, 2003
Digest
Spring semester enrollment sets record
Spring semester enrollment at UGA totals 31,384 students--a 1.7 percent increase over last year and the sixth consecutive record spring enrollment.
The total, which includes 598 students at the Gwinnett University Center, is 517 more than the 30,867 enrolled in spring of 2002. Spring enrollment has increased every year since 1997.
The 31,384 is a “head count”--the number of students who registered for one or more classes during the semester. Many of them, however, aren’t taking a full course load of 15 credit hours.
The full-time equivalent enrollment--what enrollment would be if the head-count number were taking full course loads--is 28,131. This spring’s FTE is 3.8 percent above the 2002 FTE of 27,106.
UGA and all institutions in the University System of Georgia receive state funding based on a formula calculated on FTE.
Head-count enrollment at the undergraduate level this spring totals 23,210, a decrease of 25 students from last year. Graduate student enrollment rose this spring to 6,391, up by 544 students, or 9.3 percent. UGA’s professional schools--law, pharmacy and veterinary medicine--have a total of 1,455 students, down 19 from last spring. A total of 328 students enrolled in independent study compared to 311 last year.
Dining hall nominated for design award
UGA’s Snelling Dining Hall is in the running for Foodservice Equipment and Supplies magazine’s “Facility Design Project of the Year” for 2002. Snelling was awarded the magazine’s “Facility Design Project of the Month” for September 2002; the monthly award places the facility in the running for the overall honor.
The article in FE&S reported that the Snelling renovation remedied the problem of students flowing in and out of the facility, upping the daily number served to 5,000 people from 3,000 prior to renovations.
“It is an honor for food services that this renovation project is under consideration for this award by judges of food service design,” says Michael Floyd, head of food service administration. “The success of this design is one of the many reasons why the food service program at UGA is recognized as one the best in the nation.”
The April issue of FE&S will announce the winner of the annual award. The winning project team will attend the FE&S annual awards banquet in Chicago on April 21 and 22.
M.B.A. students win ‘Spirit’ competition
A team of M.B.A. students from the Terry College of Business developed the winning business plan to take the $10,000 first prize at Indiana University’s annual “Spirit of Enterprise” competition.
The team’s plan for CarePoint Professional Employees LLC is to operate as a “professional employer organization” for small- to medium-sized medical clinics and doctor’s offices, allowing them to outsource their personnel and practice management for a fee and eliminate managing payroll, employee benefits and human resources.
Terry M.B.A. candidates Ken Kaufman, Jeff Mullins and Tina Manwiller, who formulated and presented the business plan, beat teams from several leading public and private business schools at the invitation-only event, including Indiana University, Notre Dame, the University of Michigan, Purdue University and Case Western Reserve. The Terry College team was advised by management professor Charles Hofer.
CarePoint’s victory earned them a berth at the “Super Bowl” of business plan competitions--the 2003 International Challenge of Moot Corp--which will be held at the University of Texas in May. The first-place team at Moot Corp gets a $100,000 convertible loan that can be used to help finance the startup of the winning venture. |
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