For years, Georgia colleges have heard from industries — especially in the tech field — that they’re not producing enough talent. So, university system officials realized it was time for a change.
Tristan Denley, the system’s chief academic officer, says there was consensus around creating a new kind of degree program.
“We have to find a way that degrees that we design can be much more nimble can be much more agile can be much more easily change than they have been in the past,” he says.
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