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Columns::December 8, 2003
Digest
Fall enrollment totals a record 33,878
The university’s final fall enrollment numbers are in and, as expected, the total is the highest in history with 33,878 students registered for classes.
The total includes 32,808 students attending classes on the UGA campus, 820 students attending at the Gwinnett University Center and 21 students enrolled in UGA’s new Tifton center. An additional 229 students are enrolled in independent study courses.
The 32,808 attending regular classes in Athens falls within the 2 percent variance of UGA’s on-campus enrollment target of 32,500 set by the University System Board of Regents.
This fall’s enrollment is 2.8 percent (937 students) above fall 2002 and is the seventh straight year fall enrollment has set a new record.
UGA officials expected a record enrollment due to a larger-than-anticipated freshman class, stepped-up recruitment of graduate students and a big jump in attendance at the Gwinnett University Center.
The total enrollment includes 5,236 students classified as new freshmen, the largest number of new first-year students ever enrolled in one semester. UGA had an unusually high enrollment rate for accepted freshmen this year, plus twice as many transient freshmen as last year, resulting in an increase of 404 students over freshman enrollment in fall 2002.
Total enrollment at the undergraduate level this fall is 24,977, up only 1 percent (253 students) from last year. However, graduate enrollment climbed 5.5 percent to 6,290. Officials said these totals reflect progress in the university’s goal of increasing graduate enrollment as part of an overall enrollment management strategy. Enrollment in the professional schools of law, pharmacy and veterinary medicine totals 1,541, a 2.9 percent increase.
The number of students attending UGA classes at the Gwinnett University Center leaped 48.3 percent to 820, up 267 from last fall. The total includes 632 graduate students and 188 undergraduates. UGA offers graduate programs at the center in education, business, social work, food science and technology, public administration and nonprofit organizations.
UGA offers seven bachelor’s degrees through the center, including programs in business, science and education. An undergraduate degree in social work will be added in 2004.
Twenty-one students are enrolled in classes at the Tifton center, a joint program started this year by UGA and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College located in Tifton. The four-year degree program in agriscience and environmental systems leads to a bachelor’s degree in agriculture.
Debate team finishes second in tourney
UGA’s debate team of Naveen Ramachandrappa and Hays Watson finished second at the Wake Forest University Franklin Shirley Debates in Winston-Salem, N.C., losing a closely contested final debate to the University of California-Berkeley.
There were a total of 152 teams from across the United States, and the UGA debaters beat out such teams as Harvard, Northwestern, Emory, Kentucky, Michigan State and Florida to finish in the final four.
Ramachandrappa was recognized as the fourth best speaker out of 304 debaters participating in the tournament. Two other UGA teams were recognized for their performances at Wake Forest: Robbie Quinn and Brent Culpepper finished 25th in the field of more than 150 teams, and Brynlee Tervet and Kevin Rabinowitz finished third in the novice debates. The team competes next at the University of Southern California on Dec. 31.
Law students win moot court competition
UGA School of Law students won the right to participate in their fourth straight National Moot Court Competition by taking the top trophy at the regional round of this advocacy competition.
At the tournament, held in Atlanta last month, third-year law students Meredith A. Bunn, Alan J. Hamilton and Christopher J. Latimer successfully outargued teams from the University of South Carolina and Emory in the semifinal and final rounds, respectively. Additionally, the trio captured the award for best brief.
This win affords Georgia Law its eighth trip in 10 years to the national competition, which is held in New York City each January.
The National Moot Court Competition is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious moot court tournament. Teams from more than 165 law schools enter the competition, sponsored by the Association of the Bar of New York. |
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