{"id":9374,"date":"2019-11-14T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2019-11-14T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:11:00","slug":"ghc-continues-hold-second-highest-enrollment-among-state-colleges-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2019\/11\/14\/ghc-continues-hold-second-highest-enrollment-among-state-colleges-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"GHC continues to hold second highest enrollment among state colleges in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Georgia Highlands College (GHC) continues to lead the University System of Georgia\u2019s (USG) state colleges in enrollment for fall 2019, according to the USG\u2019s \u201cFall 2019 Semester Enrollment Report.\u201d GHC holds the second highest enrollment for state colleges in Georgia next to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Georgia Gwinnett College.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">According to the USG, fall 2019 enrollment in the USG\u2019s 26 colleges and universities had an increase of 1.5 percent over the previous year.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">This continues a six-year trend of modest increases in student enrollment within USG. This fall also marks the fifth consecutive year of growth to reach an all-time high in the number of students enrolled in USG institutions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cOur overall purpose is to raise attainment levels for communities across Georgia, and the students at our 26 institutions are a critical part of that effort,\u201d said Chancellor Steve Wrigley. \u201cMore of them than ever are enrolled on our campuses, and we have also seen a substantial rise in the number of students awarded degrees annually. Getting more Georgians through college to a degree improves not only their quality of life, but also Georgia\u2019s economic competitiveness.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The enrollment numbers were released in the USG\u2019s \u201cFall 2019 Semester Enrollment Report,\u201d which breaks down enrollment by institution, class, race and ethnicity, in-state, out-of-state and international students, as well as gender and age.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The full enrollment report is\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usg.edu\/assets\/research\/documents\/enrollment_reports\/SER_Fall_19_Final.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">available here.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Highlands College (GHC) continues to lead the University System of Georgia\u2019s (USG) state colleges in enrollment for fall 2019, according to the USG\u2019s \u201cFall 2019 Semester Enrollment Report.\u201d GHC holds the second highest enrollment for state colleges in Georgia next to\u00a0Georgia Gwinnett College.\u00a0 According to the USG, fall 2019 enrollment in the USG\u2019s 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9374","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\/9374","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=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}