GHC Sees Higher Enrollment Numbers
Both the Dallas campus and the entire school have seen increases this fall.
Officials at Georgia Highlands College have seen enrollment rise this year over last year’s fall numbers. The figures settled at a total of 5,523 students on all campuses for the fall 2011 semester, compared to 5,235 last fall—an increase of 5.2 percent. According to Cathy Ledbetter, dean of the Paulding Campus of Georgia Highlands, the Dallas-based site has an attendance of 418 this year—7.5 percent of the cross-campus total. The number is up from 306 last fall. That’s about a 26-percent increase. What led to such a jump in enrollment for Georgia Highlands? Simple realization of existence, Ledbetter says. “More and more, people are realizing that we are located in Dallas,” she says. “The current students, word of mouth … it’s just …
