{"102481":{"#nid":"102481","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Distance Learning and Professional Education Gets Name Change","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a series of discussions and decisions over the past several months related to both the future of Georgia Tech Savannah, strategies related to professional education, and the evolution of \u201cdistance learning\u201d in higher education,\u0026nbsp;President G. P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson has approved an organizational name change, shortening the former Distance Learning and Professional Education to Georgia Tech Professional Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn making the recommendation to the president, Provost Rafael L. Bras cited a desire to support lifelong learning, providing opportunities that both individuals and industries need for growth and development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The focus of the organization is to provide professional development and education for the workforce along a continuum of one\u2019s life, in credit and non-credit academic programs, using Georgia Tech expertise and supporting Georgia Tech\u2019s mission,\u0022 Bras wrote. \u0022The name Georgia Tech Professional Education seems most fitting to convey this direction.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe head of the organization, currently Dr. Nelson Baker, will be titled as the Dean of Professional Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\n\u201cWith the rapidly changing content and context in the workplace, Georgia Tech\u0027s professional education programs are designed, in partnership with our faculty, to keep individuals and organizations globally competitive,\u0022 he said. \u0022Through ongoing research, we\u2019re continually looking ahead to anticipate what individual learners and industries need to know next and identify how we can best help them acquire and apply that knowledge. Over the past year, we have touched more than 13,000 individuals, representing more than 3,100 organizations around the world. We are excited about our future growth and impact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a series of discussions and decisions over the past several months related to both the future of Georgia Tech Savannah, strategies related to professional education, and the evolution of \u201cdistance learning\u201d in higher education, President G. P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson has approved an organizational name change, shortening the former Distance Learning and Professional Education to Georgia Tech Professional Education.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2012-02-01 19:44:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:13","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"109571":{"id":"109571","type":"image","title":"Nelson Baker","body":null,"created":"1449178201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:01","changed":"1475894728","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:28","alt":"Nelson Baker","file":{"fid":"194053","name":"baker.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/baker_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/baker_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3003139,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/baker_0.jpg?itok=SR9oJqhj"}}},"media_ids":["109571"],"groups":[{"id":"1258","name":"Professional Education"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2663","name":"lifelong learning"},{"id":"13997","name":"nelson baker"},{"id":"2662","name":"professional education"},{"id":"937","name":"provost"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:patrice.miles@dlpe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPatrice Miles\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-7204\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}