{"id":4222,"date":"2016-07-21T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:03:52","slug":"ghc-summer-enrollment-sees-almost-10-percent-increase-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2016\/07\/21\/ghc-summer-enrollment-sees-almost-10-percent-increase-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"GHC summer enrollment sees almost 10 percent increase over last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Highlands College kicked off the summer with another significant jump in enrollment. Those classes will be coming to an end within the next few weeks with a noticeable increase over last year\u2019s summer semester numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur current summer enrollment represents a 9.9 percent increase from last summer semester,\u201d GHC Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>This increase follows a 6.3 percent increase last spring and a 7.1 percent increase last fall.<\/p>\n<p>According to the University System of Georgia\u2019s \u201cFall 2015 Semester Enrollment Report,\u201d GHC had the third highest enrollment increase in the state last year.<\/p>\n<p>President Don Green stated the value of a GHC education is one of the driving factors for GHC\u2019s continual enrollment increases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGHC remains the most affordable, accessible and valuable USG option in Northwest Georgia,\u201d he said, \u201cand our enrollment increases prove that. I\u2019m glad we offer our students the same classes as larger institutions at half the price with a full associate degree for less than $8,000\u2014one of the many reasons GHC was acknowledged as the best return on investment for state colleges in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fall semester enrollment is projected to be just as successful. The deadline to apply is August 1<sup>st<\/sup>. Students can apply at highlands.edu<\/p>\n<p>Fall 2016 classes will begin August 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Highlands College kicked off the summer with another significant jump in enrollment. Those classes will be coming to an end within the next few weeks with a noticeable increase over last year\u2019s summer semester numbers. \u201cOur current summer enrollment represents a 9.9 percent increase from last summer semester,\u201d GHC Vice President for Student Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}