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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 196169" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>Um, are you even reading the links I posted. Roof isn't one of the highest paid assistants in the country (that was BEFORE his raise last summer)? CPJ is his own OC, but you can bet your mortgage GT would poney up for a good OC if CPJ wanted one. Regardless of what some want to believe, GT does have the money to spend, and we're not destitute. GTAA just refuses to throw good money after bad (like paying off coaches because of bad contracts).</p><p></p><p>The amount of money and resources GTAA has invested in the academic support staff and facilities far exceeds what was available to O'Leary and Gailey. As for the quality of students...can you guess the biggest feeder in school in terms of tranfers into GT is? It use to be schools like GA Southern, Southern Poly, West GA....now it's GA Perimeter College. I'm not disparaging GPC, it's that during my time at GT (which was during the O'Leary and Gailey years), being able to transfer in from a 2 year school was almost unheard of without doing work at a "traditional" 4 year school. That 97% retention has as much to do with all the resources and emphasis GT is placing on keeping kids at Tech as opposed to being proud of "weeding" them out. Again, if you would have read the link, you would have seen all the resources GT has invested in keeping the ones they let in from failing out. Half the programs they listed weren't even an idea back in the late 90's and early 2000's. I'm not saying GT is easier today than it was back then...it's just GT is more cognizant of keeping freshmen in school, and the idea of "look to the left, look to the right" is proudly chest thumped by older alumnus such as myself and others on this board as opposed to the "younger" GT grads</p><p></p><p>You can say the quality of students today is better, but are they really? You can point to test scores being higher, but how many times have they "re-centered" the SATs since the 1990's? How PC has academics overall become that teachers are afraid of failing high school students and college student?</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/12/26/why-college-grade-inflation-is-a-real-problem-and-how-to-fix-it" target="_blank">http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/12/26/why-college-grade-inflation-is-a-real-problem-and-how-to-fix-it</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gradeinflation.com/</a> (This is an interesting study, as GT is one of the schools being studied).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/Georgiatech.html" target="_blank">http://www.gradeinflation.com/Georgiatech.html</a></p><p></p><p>Now look at this chart:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://factbook.gatech.edu/academic-information/graduation-and-retention-rates-tables-5-11-5-12/" target="_blank">http://factbook.gatech.edu/academic-information/graduation-and-retention-rates-tables-5-11-5-12/</a></p><p></p><p>Have you noticed that the rise in percentage each year parallels the third link above, as well as GT's emphasis on keeping the students they accept in school and their investment in programs and staff to help students succeed at Ma Tech?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 196169, member: 360"] Um, are you even reading the links I posted. Roof isn't one of the highest paid assistants in the country (that was BEFORE his raise last summer)? CPJ is his own OC, but you can bet your mortgage GT would poney up for a good OC if CPJ wanted one. Regardless of what some want to believe, GT does have the money to spend, and we're not destitute. GTAA just refuses to throw good money after bad (like paying off coaches because of bad contracts). The amount of money and resources GTAA has invested in the academic support staff and facilities far exceeds what was available to O'Leary and Gailey. As for the quality of students...can you guess the biggest feeder in school in terms of tranfers into GT is? It use to be schools like GA Southern, Southern Poly, West GA....now it's GA Perimeter College. I'm not disparaging GPC, it's that during my time at GT (which was during the O'Leary and Gailey years), being able to transfer in from a 2 year school was almost unheard of without doing work at a "traditional" 4 year school. That 97% retention has as much to do with all the resources and emphasis GT is placing on keeping kids at Tech as opposed to being proud of "weeding" them out. Again, if you would have read the link, you would have seen all the resources GT has invested in keeping the ones they let in from failing out. Half the programs they listed weren't even an idea back in the late 90's and early 2000's. I'm not saying GT is easier today than it was back then...it's just GT is more cognizant of keeping freshmen in school, and the idea of "look to the left, look to the right" is proudly chest thumped by older alumnus such as myself and others on this board as opposed to the "younger" GT grads You can say the quality of students today is better, but are they really? You can point to test scores being higher, but how many times have they "re-centered" the SATs since the 1990's? How PC has academics overall become that teachers are afraid of failing high school students and college student? [URL]http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/12/26/why-college-grade-inflation-is-a-real-problem-and-how-to-fix-it[/URL] [URL]http://www.gradeinflation.com/[/URL] (This is an interesting study, as GT is one of the schools being studied). [URL]http://www.gradeinflation.com/Georgiatech.html[/URL] Now look at this chart: [URL]http://factbook.gatech.edu/academic-information/graduation-and-retention-rates-tables-5-11-5-12/[/URL] Have you noticed that the rise in percentage each year parallels the third link above, as well as GT's emphasis on keeping the students they accept in school and their investment in programs and staff to help students succeed at Ma Tech? [/QUOTE]
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