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On the effects of the HOPE Scholarship program: “Unlike the other 49 states, where the rising cost of tuition is sinking families deeper and deeper in debt, in Georgia, 95 percent of the in-state freshmen at both Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia pay no tuition at all. We are the 10th-largest state in the nation, but we have the fourth-largest public university system. . . . Before HOPE, 18 percent of our University System enrollment was minority. Today, more than 22 percent is minority.”
On the future: “Today, as the world stands on the threshold of a new millennium, we are in the middle of one of the greatest shifts in world history. Not only has our economy become more global in its scope, but also technology all around us is changing by the day.
There is more computer power in the Ford Taurus we drive to the supermarket than there was in the Apollo rocket Neil Armstrong flew to the moon. . . . I don’t like to think about it, but ahead I can see a hazardous split in our road. Along one path we will find anger, tension and increasing gaps between the haves and the have-nots. And I’m not talking about a racial division. A class division scares me far more.”
--Faith Peppers
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