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<blockquote data-quote="forensicbuzz" data-source="post: 77528" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>You cannot get a liberal arts degree from any school. Depending on the university, you can get a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science from a College of Liberal Arts. At Georgia Tech, you only have the Bachelor of Science option.</p><p></p><p>Either way, to say "you can't get a liberal arts degree from GT" is disingenuous. The point that was being made is that, unlike up until the early 90's, you can now get a degree from GT in something other than engineering, science or architecture. Joseph Pettit was interested in making GT one of the world's foremost technical university [using university in the broad sense, we're an institute, I know]. Dr. Pettit wasn't interested in anything other than academics, ergo the reduced focus on athletics. Towards the later part of his tenure, he realized the amount of money the Institute was losing due to a failing athletic program and brought Homer Rice in to fix the problem. </p><p></p><p>Pat Crecine was brought in from Carnegie Melon to globalize GT's brand and broaden the academic reach. He was extremely pro-athletics and supported all of the programs. It was under his leadership that we won our last MNC in football and went to the Final Four in basketball. He was instrumental in making GT the Olympic Village for the 1996 Summer Games and spearheaded the initial expansion of the campus facilities. Look at an aerial map of GT campus in 1987 and 2014, and you won't recognize them as the same place other than Ferst Drive. Dr. Crecine created the College of Liberal Arts because he saw the need to diversify GT's curriculum for both the student and the student-athlete. His down fall was three-fold: the engineering alumni were not happy about a "College of Liberal Arts" at Georgia Tech; The College of Management was rolled into the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the alumni from the IM program were up in arms about that; and, although he was visionary with respect to growth and program development, he had horrible people skills, coming across as arrogant and brash, and turning people off. He was also horrible at choosing the people surrounding him.</p><p></p><p>The Crecine regime was everything the current fans wanted in a Hill. The were pro-GTAA and wanted to win at the highest level in both athletics and academics. It's ironic that the big money guys, on both the academic and athletic side of the fence, ran him off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forensicbuzz, post: 77528, member: 198"] You cannot get a liberal arts degree from any school. Depending on the university, you can get a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science from a College of Liberal Arts. At Georgia Tech, you only have the Bachelor of Science option. Either way, to say "you can't get a liberal arts degree from GT" is disingenuous. The point that was being made is that, unlike up until the early 90's, you can now get a degree from GT in something other than engineering, science or architecture. Joseph Pettit was interested in making GT one of the world's foremost technical university [using university in the broad sense, we're an institute, I know]. Dr. Pettit wasn't interested in anything other than academics, ergo the reduced focus on athletics. Towards the later part of his tenure, he realized the amount of money the Institute was losing due to a failing athletic program and brought Homer Rice in to fix the problem. Pat Crecine was brought in from Carnegie Melon to globalize GT's brand and broaden the academic reach. He was extremely pro-athletics and supported all of the programs. It was under his leadership that we won our last MNC in football and went to the Final Four in basketball. He was instrumental in making GT the Olympic Village for the 1996 Summer Games and spearheaded the initial expansion of the campus facilities. Look at an aerial map of GT campus in 1987 and 2014, and you won't recognize them as the same place other than Ferst Drive. Dr. Crecine created the College of Liberal Arts because he saw the need to diversify GT's curriculum for both the student and the student-athlete. His down fall was three-fold: the engineering alumni were not happy about a "College of Liberal Arts" at Georgia Tech; The College of Management was rolled into the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the alumni from the IM program were up in arms about that; and, although he was visionary with respect to growth and program development, he had horrible people skills, coming across as arrogant and brash, and turning people off. He was also horrible at choosing the people surrounding him. The Crecine regime was everything the current fans wanted in a Hill. The were pro-GTAA and wanted to win at the highest level in both athletics and academics. It's ironic that the big money guys, on both the academic and athletic side of the fence, ran him off. [/QUOTE]
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