Is this REALLY true?

[Randy Carson]

Years ago (decades really), I heard that one of the obstacles Tech faces is that the Georgia Board of Regents is primarily composed of UGA grads who do not want to see Tech overly successful athletically.

So, they won't allow Tech to offer majors that might be more appealing to student-athletes who are not quite up to the academic challenges of our standard curricula.

Any truth to this old saw?

 

[UgaBlows]

It’s true

 

[Wrecked]

Yes

 

[Wrecked]

Yep, and in other shocking news Atlanta media is full of uga grads that make sure Tech does not get a media advantage in our own city

 

[bigrabbit]

I’ve wondered if it’s impacted our portal recruiting as well. It’s one thing to convince a h.s. kid that business is a great major, quite another to map someone’s PT or Recreation major courses into GT equivalent courses in order to transfer.

At least our new Ivan Allen College majors give us a chance with legit students doing liberal arts.

 

[Thwg777]

Yes

 

[gtie73]

Years ago (decades really), I heard that one of the obstacles Tech faces is that the Georgia Board of Regents is primarily composed of UGA grads who do not want to see Tech overly successful athletically.

So, they won't allow Tech to offer majors that might be more appealing to student-athletes who are not quite up to the academic challenges of our standard curricula.

Any truth to this old saw?

The Board of Regents is led by a GT grad, Harold Reynolds.

 

[cpf2001]

UGA grads on the BoR or not, how many Tech presidents do you think have gone to that board asking for athletics help? Seems like a significant part of GT leadership would have just as soon dropped that side entirely.

 

[stinger 1957]

If our FB goes the pay route rather than the amateur route will the BOR have any say?

 

[Augusta_Jacket]

I've seen a lot of complaining about this, but I've never seen actual proof of where GT has gone to the BoR, asked for specific majors, and been turned down. That's not to say it hasn't happened, but I've never seen any news or links verifying it.

 

[stinger78]

Yet UGAg gets an engineering school….

 

[Randy Carson]

The Board of Regents is led by a GT grad, Harold Reynolds.

But is that relatively recent? 'Cause I'm thinking the problem goes back decades...to the Dodd era at least.

 

[Augusta_Jacket]

Yet UGAg gets an engineering school….

That was the BoR telling uga yes, not telling GT no. I still haven't seen where The Hill has approached them and been turned down.

 

[stinger78]

That was the BoR telling uga yes, not telling GT no. I still haven't seen where The Hill has approached them and been turned down.

Sure but why else would they do that but to help them and needlessly spend state education dollars.

 

[33jacket]

That was the BoR telling uga yes, not telling GT no. I still haven't seen where The Hill has approached them and been turned down.

This.

Bor is a patsy. The problem starts and tech and ends at tech.

 

[yeti92]

Sure but why else would they do that but to help them and needlessly spend state education dollars.

My interpretation of the reasoning for uga to get an engineering school was basically there weren't enough engineers being produced by the state to fill all the bad engineering jobs in poor/****ty parts of the state, because Tech grads are too in demand and will have better offers getting paid more and/or leave the state. gaggers are more likely to return to their hometowns and take those lower paying less prestigious jobs.

 

[stinger78]

My interpretation of the reasoning for uga to get an engineering school was basically there weren't enough engineers being produced by the state to fill all the bad engineering jobs in poor/****ty parts of the state, because Tech grads are too in demand and will have better offers getting paid more and/or leave the state. gaggers are more likely to return to their hometowns and take those lower paying less prestigious jobs.

Yes, but… there’s Southern and there was an engineering school at GA Sou, IIRC.

 

[Augusta_Jacket]

Yes, but… there’s Southern and there was an engineering school at GA Sou, IIRC.

Like uga, GaSo offers a handful of engineering degrees. Neither schools engineering programs pose any threat o GTs prominence in this field. The stark reality is that more and more job fields are STEM related so more schools will begin expanding or offering STEM fields. The thought that we might be the sole source of engineering degrees in the state was never realistic.

 

[stinger78]

Like uga, GaSo offers a handful of engineering degrees. Neither schools engineering programs pose any threat o GTs prominence in this field. The stark reality is that more and more job fields are STEM related so more schools will begin expanding or offering STEM fields. The thought that we might be the sole source of engineering degrees in the state was never realistic.

My point was GA Sou already had a third rate engineering school. Southern Tech is a very good engineering technology school. It’s between the two. Now UGAg is in there, too.

 

[Augusta_Jacket]

My point was GA Sou already had a third rate engineering school. Southern Tech is a very good engineering technology school. It’s between the two. Now UGAg is in there, too.

My point is that even with all the STEM graduates GT, GaSo, and now uga produce, we still need more.