Social and Cultural split planned for fall
By Tempest Holbrook
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Staff Writer
Social and cultural studies, the largest division at Georgia Highlands College, plans to split by fall semester 2006.
The reason for splitting the division into separate humanities and social science divisions is simply the size and manageability of the division. Social and cultural studies has 36 full-time staff members and over 70 part-time members, bringing the sum of faculty and staff to over 100.
In addition, the division supervises 17 different course disciplines.
At one time, the humanities and social science divisions were two separate units, according to Dr. Virginia Carson, vice president of academic affairs. When Dr. Lynn Cundiff became president, he restructured the divisions at the college. As a result, the two divisions merged.
According to Carson, “Teaching and learning will benefit from an organizational structure that regroups the disciplines given the recent enrollment increases.”
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