[ale] [OT] Merger of Southern Polytechnic State with Kennesaw State

Jonathan Meek jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com
Sun Nov 3 19:13:33 EST 2013


For those of you haven't heard, the Board of Regents is proposing a merger
between Southern Polytechnic State University and Kennesaw State University
in order to control budget costs to the University System of Georgia this
past Friday. The merger will happen in Fall of 2015 should the plan be
approved.

Below is the news article announcing the merger: (link 1 at the end of the
email)

I am reaching out to the ale list because I feel this affects you guys as
much as it does me, especially the ALE-NW group since we all meet at SPSU
for our monthly meetings. I am drumming as much attention as I can to this
because I haven't heard anything on the local news about it and hope that
there will at least be a conversation before it goes for approval by the
Board of Regents.

Personally, I believe this a horrible move given that SPSU serves such a
unique popluation (us nerds). The SPSU staff wasn't notified about the
proposal until the day before the merger was announced (link 2 at the end
of the email). As well as it has been decided that the president of
Kennesaw State University will be the new president of the merged schools
which shall be called Kennesaw State. This feels like hostile takeover
rather than merger.

I have added the change.org petition that students of SPSU have created in
order to help get our voice heard on this issue (link 3 at the end of the
email). If you have any questions or want to talk further about this news,
feel free to email me off list.

link 1:
http://www.spsu.edu/newsroom/news/Consolidation_initial_announcement.htm
link 2:
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/23971909/article-SPSU-community-petitions-to-stop-merger
?
link 3:
http://www.change.org/petitions/university-system-of-georgia-board-of-regents-stop-kennesaw-state-from-merging-with-southern-polytechnic-state

Regards,

Jonathan
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