\u201cWe would like to especially thank our legislators for all they do to support GHC, the USG and education in the state,\u201d said Vice President for Advancement Mary Transue, who also serves in GHC\u2019s Government Relations role. \u201cWithout their tireless support and dedication, this venture would not have been possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
GHC received a total $22.5 million in state funding to advance the project: $2.2 for design, $17.7 for construction and $2.6 for equipment.<\/p>\n
The new academic building was designed by the Stanley Beaman & Sears architecture firm and is being constructed by Juneau.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe addition of this new academic building will include spaces for laboratories, classrooms, a lecture hall, study rooms and more,\u201d President Don Green said. \u201cThis increases GHC\u2019s ability to directly impact and support the community workforce through STEAM-based degrees, and it allows GHC to better serve as the University System of Georgia\u2019s primary access institution in the region.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Green added that the building will also contribute to raising GHC\u2019s nearly $150 million economic impact in Northwest Georgia. GHC has five locations across Northwest Georgia in Rome, Cartersville, Marietta, Dallas and Douglasville. He stated that the building also strengthens and broadens GHC\u2019s ability to maintain a strong relationship with K-12 school systems across Northwest Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Georgia Highlands College will be opening its new academic building at the Cartersville location in October during a Ribbon Cutting and Open House event. The event will take place on October 16 from 4-6PM and is open to the public. To R.S.V.P. to the event, please visit: ribboncutting.highlands.edu The 52,000-square foot building has a full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7576","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\/7576","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=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}