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|image_alt = The words "Seal of the Georgia Institute of Technology" encircle a shield, upon which there are three columns under a lintel surmounted by an arch. Above the shield burns a flame. The shield is wrapped in a banner bearing the words "Progress and Service". |
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|established = October 13, 1885<ref name="walk"/> |
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|type = [[Public university|Public]], [[Space grant colleges|Space grant]] |
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|president = [[George P. "Bud" Peterson]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Fain|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Georgia-Tech-Taps/42381|title=Georgia Tech Taps Colorado-Boulder Chancellor as President|work=[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]|date=2009-02-09|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref><ref name="gatech1"/> |
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|provost = [[Rafael L. Bras]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Hahnming|last=Lee|url=http://www.nique.net/news/2010/07/15/bras-named-new-provost/|title=Bras named new Provost|work=[[The Technique]]|publisher=Georgia Tech Student Publications|date=2010-07-15|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> |
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|dean = [[John Stein (academic)|John Stein]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deanofstudents.gatech.edu/plugins/content/index.php?id=15|title=Main Office Staff|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of the Dean of Students|accessdate=2010-04-01}}</ref> |
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|city = [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]] |
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|state = [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] |
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|country = United States |
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|students = 20,487 (Fall 2010)<ref name="Fall10Enroll"/> |
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|undergrad = 13,672 (Fall 2010)<ref name="Fall10Enroll"/> |
|undergrad = 13,672 (Fall 2010)<ref name="Fall10Enroll"/> |
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|postgrad = 6,815 (Fall 2010)<ref name="Fall10Enroll"/> |
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|faculty = 4,875 academic and research (Fall 2009)<ref name="Fall09FacultyProfile">{{cite web|url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/sites/www.irp.gatech.edu/files/Fact%20Sheet%2003_2010.pdf|title=Georgia Tech Fact Sheet, Faculty and Staff Data|publisher=Georgia Tech|accessdate=2011-01-29}}</ref> |
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|endowment = $1.438 billion (2010 Foundation Assets)<ref name="Endowment Info">{{cite web|url=http://www.gtf.gatech.edu/23241ATL_10_GA_Tech_Foundation_FINAL.pdf|title=Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. Consolidated Financial Statements June 30, 2010 and 2009|publisher=KPMG LLP|accessdate=2011-01-29}}</ref> |
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|campus = [[urban area|Urban]], 400 acres (1.61 km²; 161 ha) |
|campus = [[urban area|Urban]], 400 acres (1.61 km²; 161 ha) |
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|former_names = Georgia School of |
|former_names = Georgia School of Technology |
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|nickname = [[Georgia |
|nickname = [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets|Yellow Jackets]] |
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|mascot = [[Buzz (mascot)|Buzz]], [[Ramblin' Wreck]] |
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|free = [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I]]. Eight men's varsity teams, seven women's. |
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|website = [http://www.gatech.edu/ www.gatech.edu] |
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The '''Georgia Institute of Technology''' (commonly called '''Georgia Tech''', '''Tech''', and '''GT''') is a [[public university|public]] [[research university]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], in the United States. It is a part of the [[University System of Georgia]] and has satellite campuses in [[Savannah, Georgia]]; [[Metz]], France; [[Athlone]], Ireland; [[Shanghai]], China; and [[Singapore]]. |
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The educational institution was founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] plans to build an industrial economy in the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[Southern United States]]. Initially, it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. By 1901, its curriculum had expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineering. In 1948, the school changed its name to reflect its evolution from a [[Vocational school|trade school]] to a larger and more capable [[Institute of technology|technical institute]] and research university. Today, Georgia Tech is organized into six colleges and contains about 31 departments/units, with a strong emphasis on science and technology. It is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, management, the sciences, architecture, and liberal arts. Tech is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 public universities in the nation and is a member of the highly prestigious [[Association of American Universities]]. |
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Georgia Tech's main campus occupies a large part of [[Midtown Atlanta]], bordered by 10th Street to the north and by [[North Avenue (Atlanta)|North Avenue]] to the south, placing it well in sight of the [[Atlanta#Cityscape|Atlanta skyline]]. In 1996, the campus was the site of the athletes' village and a venue for a number of athletic events for the [[1996 Summer Olympics]]. The construction of the Olympic village, along with subsequent [[gentrification]] of the surrounding areas greatly enhanced the campus. |
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Student athletics, both organized and intramural, are an important part of student and alumni life. The school's [[college athletics|intercollegiate competitive sports]] teams, the four-time football national champion [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets|Yellow Jackets]], and the nationally recognized fight song "[[Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech]]", have helped keep Georgia Tech in the national spotlight. Georgia Tech fields eight men's and seven women's teams that compete in the [[NCAA]] [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I]] athletics and the [[Division I-A#Football Bowl Subdivision|Football Bowl Subdivision]]. Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the [[Atlantic Coast Conference]]. |
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== History == |
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{{Main|History of Georgia Tech}} |
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=== Establishment === |
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[[File:AtlantaDuringCivilWar.jpg|Atlanta during the Civil War (''c''. 1864)|alt=About a dozen one- and two-story buildings, several of which are damaged, line a dirt road that intersects with three railroad tracks in the foreground|right|thumb|300px]] |
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The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] period. Two former [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] officers, Major [[John Fletcher Hanson]] (an industrialist) and [[Nathaniel Edwin Harris]] (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of [[Macon, Georgia]] after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], strongly believed that the South needed to improve its technology to compete with the [[industrial revolution]] that was occurring throughout the North.<ref name="Hopkins">{{cite web | title = The Hopkins Administration, 1888–1895 | work = "A Thousand Wheels are set in Motion": The Building of Georgia Tech at the Turn of the 20th Century, 1888–1908 | publisher = Georgia Institute of Technology | url = http://www.library.gatech.edu/gtbuildings/hopkins.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-30 }}</ref><ref name="gws">{{cite web|url=http://files.asme.org/ASMEORG/Communities/History/Landmarks/1293.pdf|title=The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering|publisher=The American Society of Mechanical Engineers|accessdate=2007-04-22|format=PDF}}</ref> However, because the American South of that era was mainly populated by agricultural workers and few technical developments were occurring, a technology school was needed.<ref name="Hopkins"/><ref name="gws"/> |
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In 1882, |
In 1882, the [[Georgia State Legislature]] authorized a committee, led by Harris, to visit the Northeast to see firsthand how technology schools worked. They were impressed by educational models developed at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science (now [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute]]). The committee recommended adapting the Worcester model, which stressed a combination of "theory and practice", the "practice" component including student employment and production of consumer items to generate revenue for the school.<ref name="NewSouthCreed">{{cite journal | last = Brittain | first = James E. | coauthors = Robert C. McMath, Jr. | title = Engineers and the New South Creed: The Formation and Early Development of Georgia Tech | journal = Technology and Culture | volume = 18 | issue = 2 | pages = 175–201 | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press | year = 1977 | month = April | doi = 10.2307/3103955 | jstor = 3103955 }}</ref> |
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On October 13, 1885, [[Governor of Georgia|Georgia Governor]] [[Henry D. McDaniel]] signed the bill to create and fund the new school.<ref name="walk">{{cite news| url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/sum04/article1.html | title=A Walk Through Tech's History | publisher = [[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]] | work = Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online | accessdate = 2007-01-29 }}</ref> In 1887, Atlanta pioneer [[Richard Peters (Atlanta)|Richard Peters]] donated {{convert|4|acre|ha}} of his extensive land holdings to the state; this land was bounded on the south by [[North Avenue (Atlanta)|North Avenue]], and on the west by Cherry Street.<ref name="walk"/> He then sold five adjoining acres of land to the state for [[United States dollar|US$]]10,000, equivalent to about US${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|10000|1887|{{CURRENTYEAR}}|r=2}}}} now.<ref name="walk"/> This land was located near the northern city limits of Atlanta at the time of its founding, although the city has now expanded several miles beyond it. A historical marker on the large hill in [[Georgia Institute of Technology#Central Campus|Central Campus]] notes that the site occupied by the school's first buildings once held fortifications built to protect Atlanta during the [[Atlanta Campaign]] of the American Civil War. The surrender of the city took place on the southwestern boundary of the modern Georgia Tech campus in 1864.<ref name="CivilWarAtlanta">{{cite web | last = Lenz | first = Richard J. | title = Surrender Marker, Fort Hood, Change of Command Marker | work = The Civil War in Georgia, An Illustrated Travelers Guide | publisher = Sherpa Guides | year = 2002 | month = November | url = http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/civil_war/atlanta/westview_area.html | accessdate = 2006-12-30 }}</ref> |
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=== Early years === |
=== Early years === |
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[[File:Tech Tower and Shop 1899.jpg|right|300px|thumb|An early picture of Georgia Tech|alt=Two buildings stand side-by-side on a hill. The one on the left is two stories, with two smokestacks behind it. The one on the right is the larger, taller Tech Tower building.]] |
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The Georgia School of Technology opened its doors in the fall of 1888 with two buildings.<ref name="Hopkins"/> One building (now [[Tech Tower]], an administrative headquarters) had classrooms to teach students; The second building featured a shop and had a [[foundry]], [[forge]], [[mechanical room|boiler room]], and engine room. It was designed specifically for students to work and produce goods to sell and fund the school. The two buildings were equal in size to show the importance of teaching both the mind and the hands; though, at the time, there was some disagreement to whether the machine shop should have been used to turn a profit.<ref name="Hopkins"/><ref name="NewSouthCreed"/> |
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On October 20, 1905, [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] visited the Georgia Tech campus. On the steps of Tech Tower, Roosevelt delivered a speech about the importance of technological education.<ref name="PresidentialVisit">{{cite web | last = Selman | first = Sean | title = Presidential Tour of Campus Not the First for the Institute | work = A Presidential Visit to Georgia Tech | publisher = Georgia Institute of Technology | date = 2002-03-27 | url = http://www.gatech.edu/presidential-visit/presidential-history.html | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080202173719/http://www.gatech.edu/presidential-visit/presidential-history.html | archivedate = 2008-02-02 | accessdate = 2006-12-30 }}</ref> He then shook hands with every student.<ref name="EventfulYear">{{cite web | title = One Hundred Years Ago Was Eventful Year at Tech | work = BuzzWords | publisher = [[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]] | date = 2005-10-01 | url = http://gtalumni.org/buzzwords/oct05/article389.html | accessdate = 2006-12-30 }}</ref> |
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Georgia Tech's Evening School of Commerce began holding classes in 1912.<ref name="techtimeline">{{cite web| title = Tech Timeline | publisher = [[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]] | url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/timeline/ | accessdate = 2007-03-27 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20061223161821/http://gtalumni.org/Publications/timeline/ |archivedate = December 23, 2006}}</ref> The evening school admitted its first female student in 1917, although the state legislature did not officially authorize attendance by women until 1920.<ref name="techtimeline"/><ref name="escw">{{cite news| url=http://alt.gtalumni.org/StayInformed/techtopics/fall97/degrees.html| title=Underground Degrees| year=1997| work=Tech Topics| publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]| accessdate=2007-03-15}}</ref> Annie T. Wise became the first female graduate in 1919 and went on to become Georgia Tech's first female faculty member the following year.<ref name="techtimeline"/><ref name="escw"/> In 1931, the [[Georgia Board of Regents|Board of Regents]] transferred control of the Evening School of Commerce to the [[University of Georgia]] (UGA) and moved the civil and electrical engineering courses at UGA to Tech.<ref name="techtimeline"/><ref name="escw"/> Tech replaced the commerce school with what later became the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Management|College of Management]]. The commerce school would later split from UGA and eventually become [[Georgia State University]].<ref name="techtimeline"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/pages.asp?ldID=105&guideID=549&ID=3670|title=History of Georgia State University|publisher=Georgia State University Library|date=2003-10-06|accessdate=2007-03-15}}</ref> In 1934, the Engineering Experiment Station (later known as the [[Georgia Tech Research Institute]]) was founded by [[W. Harry Vaughan]] with an initial budget of $5,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|5000|1934|{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}}} today) and 13 part-time faculty.<ref name="ens">{{cite book|first=Robert C.|last=McMath|coauthors=Ronald H. Bayor, James E. Brittain, Lawrence Foster, August W. Giebelhaus, and Germaine M. Reed|authorlink=Bob McMath|title=Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech 1885–1985|publisher=[[University of Georgia Press]]|location=Athens, GA | isbn = 08-2030-784-X | year = 1985}}</ref><!-- p186 --><ref name="origins">{{Cite journal|author=Combes, Richard|url=http://www.cherry.gatech.edu/sim/refs/combes.pdf|title=Origins of Industrial Extension: A Historical Case Study|publisher=School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology|year=1992|format=PDF|accessdate=2007-05-28 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060901140557/http://www.cherry.gatech.edu/sim/refs/combes.pdf |archivedate = September 1, 2006}}</ref> |
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=== Modern |
=== Modern history === |
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Founded as |
Founded as the Georgia School of Technology, Georgia Tech assumed its present name in 1948 to reflect a growing focus on advanced technological and scientific research.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/about/history.html|title=History & Traditions|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> Unlike most similarly named universities (such as the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and the [[California Institute of Technology]]), the Georgia Institute of Technology is a [[public university|public]] institution. |
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[[File:Wayne Clough.jpg|thumb|left|Former Institute President [[G. Wayne Clough|Dr. G. Wayne Clough]] speaks at a student meeting.|alt=A white-haired and white-bearded man gesturing with his right hand as he speaks]] |
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Tech first admitted female students to regular classes in 1952, although women could not enroll in all programs at Tech until 1968.<ref name="firstfemales">{{cite news | last = Terraso | first = David | title = Georgia Tech Celebrates 50 Years of Women | publisher = Georgia Institute of Technology | date = 2003-03-21 | url = http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=98 | accessdate = 2011-02-25 }}</ref> Industrial Management was the last program to open to women.<ref name="techtimeline"/><ref name="firstfemales"/> The first women's dorm, Fulmer Hall, opened in 1969.<ref name="techtimeline"/> Women constituted 30.3% of the undergraduates and 25.3% of the graduate students enrolled in Spring 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/apps/Enrollment/gender.cfm?TERM=200902|title=Facts and Figures: Enrollment by Gender|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Institutional Research & Planning|accessdate=2009-07-18}}</ref> In 1959, a meeting of 2,741 students voted by an overwhelming majority to endorse integration of qualified applicants, regardless of race.<ref name="notsoeasy">{{cite news|first=Pat|last=Edwards|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/1999-09-10/campus%20life/5|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060505081231/http://www.nique.net/issues/1999-09-10/campus+life/5|archivedate=2006-05-05|title=Being new to Tech was not always so easy|work=[[The Technique]]|date=1999-09-10|accessdate=2007-04-10}}</ref> Three years after the meeting, and one year after the University of Georgia's violent integration, Georgia Tech became the first university in the [[Deep South]] to desegregate without a court order.<ref name="notsoeasy"/><ref name="firstblacks">{{cite press release | title = Georgia Tech is Nation's No. 1 Producer of African-American Engineers in the Nation | publisher = Georgia Institute of Technology | date = 2001-09-13 | url = http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/40thanniversary.html | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20030115071633/http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/40thanniversary.html | archivedate = 2003-01-15 | accessdate = 2006-11-13 }} |
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</ref> There was little reaction to this by Tech students; like the city of Atlanta described by former Mayor [[William Hartsfield]], they seemed "too busy to hate".<ref name="notsoeasy"/> Similarly, there was little student reaction to the [[Vietnam War]] and United States involvement in the [[Cambodian Civil War]]. The student council defeated a resolution supporting the [[Vietnam Moratorium]], and the extent of the Tech community's response to the [[Kent State shooting]] was limited to a student-organized memorial service, though the Institute was ordered closed for two days, along with all other [[University System of Georgia]] schools.<ref name="ens"/> |
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In 1988, |
In 1988, President [[John Patrick Crecine]] pushed through a restructuring of the university. The Institute at that point had three colleges: the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering|College of Engineering]], the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Management|College of Management]], and the catch-all COSALS, the College of Sciences and Liberal Arts. Crecine reorganized the latter two into the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing|College of Computing]], the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences|College of Sciences]], and the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy, and International Affairs.<ref name="Crecine">{{cite news | last = Joshi | first = Nikhil | title = Geibelhaus lectures on controversial president | work = [[The Technique]] | date = 2006-03-10 | url = http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-03-10/focus/4 | accessdate = 2007-01-29 | quote = There was controversy in every step. Management fought this, because they were the big losers... Crecine was under fire.|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070929141150/http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-03-10/focus/4 |archivedate = September 29, 2007|deadurl=yes}}</ref><ref name="Gray">{{cite news|first=J.R.|last=Gray|url=http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb6/eds5.html|title=Get over headtrip, Management|work=[[The Technique]]|date=1998-02-06|accessdate=2007-05-20}}</ref> Crecine never asked for input regarding the changes and, consequently, many faculty members disliked his top-down management style; despite this, the changes passed by a slim margin.<ref name="Crecine"/> Crecine was also instrumental in securing the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] for Atlanta. A large amount of construction occurred, creating most of what is now considered "West Campus" for Tech to serve as the [[Olympic Park|Olympic Village]], and significantly [[gentrifying]] [[Midtown Atlanta]].<ref name=realestate-market-since-olympics>{{Cite journal | title=Analysis of the 1996 Summer Games on Real Estate Markets in Atlanta | author=Susan Simmons | year=2000 |publisher = MIT Center for Real Estate | url = http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/32197/48528237.pdf | accessdate = 2009-07-29 |format = PDF}}</ref><ref name="village">{{cite news|url=http://alt.gtalumni.org/StayInformed/techtopics/fall95/home0.html|title=Touring the Olympic Village|work=Tech Topics|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1995|accessdate=2007-05-21}}</ref> The Undergraduate Living Center, Fourth Street Apartments, Sixth Street Apartments, [[Eighth Street Apartments]], Hemphill Apartments, and Center Street Apartments housed athletes and journalists. The [[Georgia Tech Aquatic Center]] was built for swimming events, and the [[Alexander Memorial Coliseum]] was renovated.<ref name="techtimeline"/><ref name="village"/> The Institute also erected the [[Kessler Campanile]] and fountain to serve as a landmark and symbol of the Institute on television broadcasts.<ref name="techtimeline"/> Since then, the Campanile has come to be known by students as "The Shaft".<ref name="webster2004">{{cite news | url = http://www.nique.net/issues/2004-08-20/freshman%20survival%20guide/8 | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070929135754/http://www.nique.net/issues/2004-08-20/freshman+survival+guide/8 | archivedate = 2007-09-29 | title=You certainly won’t find these in Webster’s...|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2004-08-20|accessdate=2007-05-20}}</ref> |
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In 1994, [[G. Wayne Clough]] became |
In 1994, [[G. Wayne Clough]] became the first Tech alumnus to serve as the president of the Institute; he was in office during the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 1998, he separated the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy, and International Affairs into the [[Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts]] and returned the College of Management to "College" status (Crecine, the previous president, had demoted Management from "College" to "School" status as part of a controversial 1990 reorganization plan).<ref name="Crecine"/><ref name="Gray"/> His tenure focused on a dramatic expansion of the Institute, a revamped Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the creation of an International Plan.<ref>{{cite news|first=Nikhil|last=Joshi|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2005-03-04/news/2|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929131505/http://www.nique.net/issues/2005-03-04/news/2|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=International plan takes root|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2005-03-04|accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Inn Inn|last=Chen|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2005-09-23/focus/1|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070824214818/http://www.nique.net/issues/2005-09-23/focus/1|archivedate=2007-08-24|title=Research, International Plan Fair hits Skiles Walkway|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2005-09-23|accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=49718|title=Georgia Tech Recognized For International Efforts|first=Matthew|last=Nagel|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2010-01-26|accessdate=2010-01-28}}</ref> On March 15, 2008, he was appointed secretary of the [[Smithsonian Institution]], effective July 1, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|first=Robin|last=Pogrebin|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/us/16smithsonian.html|title=Georgia Tech President to lead Smithsonian|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2008-03-16|accessdate=2008-04-28}}</ref> [[Gary Schuster|Dr. Gary Schuster]], Tech's provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, was named interim president, effective July 1, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1808|title=Gary Schuster named Georgia Tech Interim President|work=Georgia Tech News Release|date=2008-04-08|accessdate=2008-04-28}}</ref> On April 1, 2009, [[G. P. "Bud" Peterson]], previously the [[Chancellor (education)|chancellor]] of the [[University of Colorado at Boulder]], became the 11th president of Georgia Tech.<ref name="gatech1">{{cite pressrelease|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=2623|title=Peterson Named President of Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2009-02-25|accessdate=2009-02-25|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology}}</ref> On April 20, 2010, Georgia Tech was invited to join the [[Association of American Universities]], the first new member institution in nine years.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10706|title=AAU Adds Georgia Tech As A Member|work=AAU News Release|date=2010-04-21|accessdate=2010-04-21}}</ref> |
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== Academics == |
== Academics == |
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=== Demographics === |
=== Demographics === |
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! !! Undergraduate<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/undergraduate-enrollment-collegeethnicitygender|title=Undergraduate Enrollment by College, Ethnicity, and Gender, Fall Semester 2009|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> !! Graduate<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/graduate-enrollment-collegeethnicitygender|title=Graduate Enrollment by College, Ethnicity, and Gender, Fall Semester 2009|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> |
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The student body consists of more than 20,000 graduate and undergraduate students (Fall 2010) and almost 1,000 full-time academic faculty (Fall 2009).<ref name="Fall10Enroll">{{cite web|url=http://www.admission.gatech.edu/images/pdf/GTprofile1011.pdf|title=2010-2011 School Profile|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Institutional Research & Planning|accessdate=2011-01-27}}</ref><ref name="FacCount">{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/faculty-profile|title=Full-time Teaching Faculty Distribution by College, as of October 2009|publisher=Georgia Tech Factbook|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref><ref name="Facts">{{cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/about/factsandfigures.html|title=Facts and Figures|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> As is historically true of engineering institutions, female enrollment at Georgia Tech is low. However, this is slowly changing due to the university's growing liberal arts programs and outreach programs to encourage more female high school students to consider careers in science and engineering. These include the "Women In Engineering" program and sponsorship of a chapter of The [[Society of Women Engineers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coe.gatech.edu/diversity/wieabout.php|title=Women in Engineering at Georgia Tech|publisher=[[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering|Georgia Tech College of Engineering]]|accessdate=2007-10-09 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070630143055/http://www.coe.gatech.edu/diversity/wieabout.php |archivedate = June 30, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/swe/|title=Welcome!|publisher=Georgia Tech Society of Women Engineers|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> {{As of|2009|alt=As of Spring 2009}}, the freshman class had a ratio of 67.4% to 32.2%.<ref name="ratio">{{cite web|url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/apps/Enrollment/gender.cfm?TERM=200902&time_status=Total|title=Facts and Figures: Enrollment by Gender|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Institutional Research & Planning|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> |
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50-55% of all Georgia Tech students are residents of the state of Georgia, around 20% come from overseas, and 25-30% are residents of other U.S. states or territories. The top states of origin for all non-Georgia US students are Florida, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, New York, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/enrollment-state|title=Students Enrolled by State of Residence, Fall Semester 2009|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> Students at Tech represent 111 countries and all 50 states.<ref name="Fall10Enroll"/> 30% of the Fall 2010 incoming Freshman class come from other states and 9% come from overseas. 24% come from Asian backgrounds, 5% are African American, 7% are Hispanic, and 3% are multi-racial. For the fall of 2010, close to 36% of incoming freshmen are female students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.admission.gatech.edu/quickfacts/|title=2010 Freshman Profile Quickfacts|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions|accessdate=2011-01-29}}</ref> |
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The Georgia Institute of Technology is a [[public universities|public institution]] that receives funds from the [[Georgia (U.S. state)|State of Georgia]], tuition, fees, research grants, and alumni contributions. In 2010, the Institute's revenue amounted to about $1.159 billion. 19% came from state appropriations and grants while 15% originated from tuition and fees. Grants and contracts accounted for 49% of all revenue. Expenditures were about $1.094 billion. 45% went to research and 20% went to instruction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fin-services.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/FINAL%20-%20GT%20FY2010%20AFR.pdf|title=Georgia Institute of Technology Report on Audit of the Financial Statements for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,2010|publisher=Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts|accessdate=2011-01-29}}</ref> The Georgia Tech Foundation runs the university's endowment and was incorporated in 1932. It includes several wholly owned subsidiaries that own land on campus or in Midtown and lease the land back to the Georgia Board of Regents and other companies and organizations. Assets totaled $1.438 billion and liabilities totaled $0.438 billion in 2010. Assets are down from a high of $1.646 billion in 2008.<ref name="Endowment Info"/> Georgia Tech has the most generous alumni donor base, percentage wise, of any public university ranked in the top 50.<ref name="highest">{{cite pressrelease|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1457|title=Tech Receives Highest U.S. News Ranking Ever|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2007-08-17|accessdate=2009-06-18}}</ref> |
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Georgia Tech is consistently ranked among the best universities in the United States and the world. For over a decade, Georgia Tech has remained in the top ten [[public universities]] in the United States.<ref name="Rankings2009">{{cite pressrelease | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | date=2008-08-21 | url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=2058 | accessdate=2008-09-11 | title=Georgia Tech ranked seventh nationally among public universities for undergraduates }}</ref> In 2008-2010, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked Tech as the No. 7 public university, and No. 35 among all universities.<ref name="Rankings2009"/> In 2010, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Georgia Tech 19th in the United States, 27th in the world, 10th in Engineering & IT, 20th in North America, and 5th among public universities.<ref name="timesRankings2010">{{cite news | url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html | title=Top 200 - The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-2011 | accessdate=2010-10-11 | year=2010 | publisher=Times Higher Education}}</ref> Tech has the No. 4 undergraduate engineering program, and the No. 4 graduate engineering program.<ref name="Rankings2009"/> All of Tech's undergraduate engineering programs are among the Top 10 in their field including its Schools of Industrial Engineering (1st), Aerospace (2nd), Biomedical (3rd), Mechanical (3rd), Civil (3rd), Electrical (5th), Environmental (5th), Computer (6th), Materials (9th), and Chemical (9th),<ref name="Rankings2009"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-chemical|work=Best Colleges 2010|title=Specialty Rankings: Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Chemical|year=2009|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> and Industrial Engineering (1st), Biomedical (2nd), and Aerospace (2nd) at the graduate level.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/engindex_brief.php|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070921071159/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/engindex_brief.php|archivedate=2007-09-21|title=Engineering Graduate Program Rankings|work=[[U.S. News & World Report]]|accessdate=2007-12-24}}</ref> In 2010, Georgia Tech’s College of Management rose from 31st the previous year to 28th, continuing its rapid upward trend <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=60445|title=GEORGIA TECH’S U.S. NEWS RANKINGS REMAIN STRONG|publisher=Georgia Tech News|accessdate=2010-08-17}}</ref> ''Diverse Issues in Higher Education'' has ranked Tech No. 1 at the bachelor's level, No. 2 at the master's level, and No. 1 at the doctoral level in terms of producing African American engineering graduates.<ref name="Facts"/> In 2010, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Tech as the No. 26 "[[MBA]]" program.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings/page+2|title=Rankings: Best Business Schools|year=2009|publisher=[[U.S. News and World Report]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> Tech also boasts the No. 30 Physics program in the nation, specializing in [[Nonlinear Dynamics]] (in which it ranks 5th nationwide) and [[Condensed Matter Physics]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/physics-rankings/page+2|title=Rankings: Best Physics Schools|year=2009|publisher=[[U.S. News and World Report]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/applied/news.dir/issue16.dir/news/news.html|title=Rankings: Rankings of Physics Programs in Nonlinear Dynamics/Chaos|year=1999|publisher=[[U.S. News and World Report]]|accessdate=2010-02-26}}</ref> ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the graduate chemistry program at No. 26 overall with the [[Physical Chemistry]] specialty ranked at No. 14.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/chemistry-rankings/page+2|title=Rankings: Best Chemistry Schools|year=2010|publisher=[[U.S. News and World Report]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> The Math department is ranked at No. 30 overall and at No. 8 in Discrete Math and [[Combinatorics]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/discrete-mathematics-rankings|title=Rankings: Rankings of Math Programs in Discrete Mathematics|year=2010|publisher=[[U.S. News and World Report]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> |
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=== Colleges === |
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Georgia |
Georgia Tech's undergraduate and graduate programs are divided into six colleges. Collaboration among the colleges is frequent, as mandated by a number of [[interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] degree programs and research centers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catalog.gatech.edu/students/grad/special/interdisc.php|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080127174020/http://www.catalog.gatech.edu/students/grad/special/interdisc.php|archivedate=2008-01-27|title=2006 General Catalog: Interdisciplinary Programs|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref> Georgia Tech has sought to strengthen its undergraduate and graduate offerings in less technical fields, primarily those under the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Liberal Arts|Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts]]. That particular College has seen a 20% increase in admissions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iac.gatech.edu/about/ar.htm|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080101220704/http://www.iac.gatech.edu/about/ar.htm|archivedate=2008-01-01|title=Annual Report|publisher=[[Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts]]|accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref> Also, even in the Ivan Allen College, the Institute does not offer a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree, only a [[Bachelor of Science]]. |
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=== Research === |
=== Research === |
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{{See also|Georgia Tech Information Security Center|Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines|Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access}} |
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[[File:Centennial Research Building.jpg|thumb|right|The Centennial Research Building, one of the buildings of the [[Georgia Tech Research Institute]]|alt=A circular, six-story brick building with decorative white concrete stripes above and below lines of adjacent square windows that encircle most of each level]] |
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Georgia |
Georgia Tech is classified by [[The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]] as a university with very high research activity.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/lookup_listings/view_institution.php?unit_id=139755&start_page=institution.php | title=Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus | work=Carnegie Classifications | publisher=[[Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]] | accessdate=2011-02-25 }}</ref> Much of this research is [[research funding|funded]] by large corporations or governmental organizations.<ref name="factbook">{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/research-scope|title=Research: Research Scope|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> In addition to research performed by its academic units, Georgia Tech is affiliated with a nonprofit research organization referred to as the [[Georgia Tech Research Institute]] (GTRI).<ref name="gtri">{{cite web|url=http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/files/GTRI-Annual-Report-2006.pdf|title=2006 GTRI Annual Report|publisher=Georgia Tech Research Institute|format=PDF|accessdate=2007-04-03}}</ref><ref name="factbookgtri">{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/georgia-tech-research-institute|title=Georgia Tech Research Institute|work=Georgia Tech Fact Book|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2010-08-24}}</ref> GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar, electro-optics, and materials engineering.<ref name="gtri"/> Around forty percent (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research, especially [[Research funding#Government-funded research|government-funded]] [[classified information|classified]] work, is conducted through this counterpart organization.<ref name="factbookgtri"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/awards-summary|title=Awards Summary by Unit, Fiscal Years 2005-2009|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|year=2010|accessdate=2010-08-24}}</ref> GTRI employs over 1,500 people and had $205 million in revenue in [[fiscal year]] 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/files/media/GTRI_Annual_Report_2009-web.pdf|title=GTRI 2009 Annual Report: 75th Anniversary Edition|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Research Institute]]|year=2010|accessdate=2010-08-24}}</ref> |
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Many [[startup company|startup companies]] are produced through research conducted at Georgia Tech, with the [[Advanced Technology Development Center]] and [[VentureLab]] ready to assist Georgia Tech's researchers and entrepreneurs in organization and commercialization. The [[Georgia Tech Research Corporation]] serves as Georgia Tech's contract and technology licensing agency. Georgia Tech is ranked fourth for startup companies, eighth in patents, and eleventh in [[technology transfer]] by the [[Milken Institute]].<ref name="factbook"/><ref>{{cite web|first=Ross|last=DeVol|coauthors=Armen Bedroussian, Anna Babayan, Meggy Frye, Daniela Murphy, Tomas J. Philipson, Lorna Wallace, Perry Wong, Benjamin Yeo|url=http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=576&cat=ResRep|title=Mind to Market: A Global Analysis of University Biotechnology Transfer and Commercialization|publisher=Milken Institute|date=2006-09-20}}</ref> Georgia Tech and GTRI devote {{convert|1900000|sqft|m2}} of space to research purposes,<ref name="factbook"/> including the new $90 million [[Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center]], one of the largest [[nanotechnology]] research facilities in the [[Southeastern United States]] with over {{convert|30000|sqft|m2}} of [[clean room]] space.<ref name="nrc">{{cite web|url=http://www.development.gatech.edu/projects/CLN/|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080129080250/http://www.development.gatech.edu/projects/CLN/|archivedate=2008-01-29|title=Nanotechnology Research Center Building|publisher=Georgia Tech Capital Projects|accessdate=2007-03-06}}</ref><ref name="nrc-pr">{{cite pressrelease | url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=2829 | title=Marcus Nanotechnology Building Formally Dedicated | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | date=2009-04-23 | accessdate=2009-08-09 }}</ref><ref name="nrc-ajc">{{cite news | work=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] | url=http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/04/24/nanotechnology_georgia_tech.html | title=Nanotechnology building opens at Georgia Tech | date=2009-04-29 | accessdate=2009-08-09 | last=Markiewicz | first=David }}</ref> |
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Georgia Tech encourages undergraduates to participate in research alongside graduate students and faculty. The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program awards scholarships each semester to undergraduates who pursue research activities. These scholarships, called the President's Undergraduate Research Awards, take the form of student salaries or help cover travel expenses when students present their work at professional meetings.<ref>{{cite web | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | title=President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) | url=http://www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu/funding.php | accessdate=2008-02-03 }}</ref> Additionally, undergraduates may participate in research and write a [[thesis]] to earn a "Research Option" credit on their [[transcript (education)|transcripts]].<ref>{{cite web | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu/research_option/index.php | accessdate=2008-02-03 | title=Research Option }}</ref> An undergraduate research journal, ''The Tower'', was established in 2007 to provide undergraduates with a venue for disseminating their research and a chance to become familiar with the [[academic publishing]] process.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-11-30/focus/4 | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071231073411/http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-11-30/focus/4| archivedate=2007-12-31| accessdate=2008-01-02 |date=2007-11-30| title=Tech's first research journal begins submission process | last=Kent | first=Julie | work=[[The Technique]] }}</ref> |
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=== Industry connections === |
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Georgia |
Georgia Tech maintains close ties to the industrial world. Many of these connections are made through Georgia Tech's [[cooperative education]] and [[intern]]ship programs. Georgia Tech's Division of Professional Practice (DoPP), established in 1912 as the Georgia Institute of Technology Cooperative Division,<ref name="DoPPhonor">{{cite news | url=http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/07/jun/18/brief.shtml | work = The Whistle | accessdate = 2007-09-24 | date=2007-06-18| title=Cooperative Education named to national Hall of Honor }}</ref> operates the largest and fourth-oldest cooperative education program in the United States, and is accredited by the [[Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.co-opaccreditation.org/why.htm|title=Why Become Accredited?|publisher=[[Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education]]|accessdate=2010-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Reem|last=Mansoura|url=http://www.nique.net/focus/2008/06/27/tech-students-meet-with-representatives-in-dc/|title=Tech students meet with representatives in DC|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2008-06-27|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref><ref name="DoPPhome">{{cite web | title = Division of Professional Practice | url=http://www.profpractice.gatech.edu/index.php | accessdate = 2007-09-24 | publisher = Georgia Institute of Technology }}</ref> The DoPP is charged with providing opportunities for students to gain real-world employment experience through four programs, each targeting a different body of students. The Undergraduate Cooperative Education Program is a five-year program in which [[undergraduate education|undergraduate students]] alternate between semesters of formal instruction at Georgia Tech and semesters of full-time employment with their employers. |
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The Graduate Cooperative Education Program, established in 1983, is the largest such program in the United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gradcoop.gatech.edu/ | work=Division of Professional Practice | title=Graduate Cooperative Education Program | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | accessdate = 2007-09-24 }}</ref> It allows [[graduate school|graduate students]] pursuing [[master's degree]]s or [[doctorate]]s in any field to spend a maximum of two consecutive semesters working full- or part-time with employers. The Undergraduate Professional Internship Program enables undergraduate students—typically juniors or seniors—to complete a one- or two-semester internship with employers. The Work Abroad Program hosts a variety of cooperative education and internship experiences for upperclassmen and graduate students seeking international employment and cross-cultural experiences. While all four programs are voluntary, they consistently attract high numbers of students—more than 3,000 at last count. Around 1,000 businesses and organizations hire these students, who collectively earn $20 million per year.<ref name="DoPPhome"/> |
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Georgia Tech's cooperative education and internship programs have been externally recognized for their strengths. The Undergraduate Cooperative Education was recognized by ''U.S. News & World Report'' as one of the top 10 "Programs that Really Work" for five consecutive years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/undergraduate-cooperative-program-enrollment|title=Academic Information: Professional Practice Programs|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref> ''U.S. News & World Report'' additionally ranked Georgia Tech's internship and cooperative education programs among 14 "Academic Programs to Look For" in 2006 and 2007.<ref name="highest"/> On June 4, 2007, the [[University of Cincinnati]] inducted Georgia Tech into its Cooperative Education Hall of Honor.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.uc.edu/propractice/2007%20Hall%20of%20Honors.htm | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070929131629/http://www.uc.edu/propractice/2007+Hall+of+Honors.htm | archivedate=2007-09-29| publisher = [[University of Cincinnati]] | work= Division of Professional Practice | title = UC Inducts 2007 Honorees into Co-op Hall of Honor | year=2007 | accessdate = 2007-09-24 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uc.edu/webapps/propractice/hallofhonor/Inductees.aspx|title=Georgia Institute of Technology|publisher=[[University of Cincinnati]] Cooperative Education Hall of Honor|year=2007|accessdate=2010-02-26}}</ref> |
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Georgia Tech students benefit from many Institute-sponsored or -related events on campus, as well as a wide selection of cultural options in the surrounding district of Midtown Atlanta, "Atlanta's Heart of the Arts".<ref>{{cite news|first=C. Jason|last=Mabry|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2003-08-22/entertainment/2|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070907052627/http://www.nique.net/issues/2003-08-22/entertainment/2|archivedate=2007-09-07|title=Bored yet? Find out what Tech and Atlanta have to offer|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2003-08-22|accessdate=2007-09-12}}</ref> Just off campus, students can choose from a host of restaurant and dining choices typical of metropolitan areas, including a half-dozen in [[Technology Square]] alone.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/visitorinfo/atlantanearby.html | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080206070908/http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/visitorinfo/atlantanearby.html | archivedate=2008-02-06 | publisher=[[Georgia Tech Research Institute]] | accessdate=2008-02-09 | title=Hotels and Restaurants Nearby Georgia Tech }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Tech Square Retail | url=http://www.studentcenter.gatech.edu/tech_square_retail.htm | accessdate=2008-02-09 | publisher=Georgia Tech Student Center |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071215031536/http://www.studentcenter.gatech.edu/tech_square_retail.htm |archivedate = December 15, 2007}}</ref> [[Home Park (Atlanta)|Home Park]], a neighborhood that borders the north end of campus, is a popular living area for Tech students and recent graduates.<ref>{{cite news|first=Aghigh|last=Ebrahimi|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/1999-09-10/campus%20life/8|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070502064333/http://www.nique.net/issues/1999-09-10/campus+life/8|archivedate=2007-05-02|title=Home Park provides close alternative|work=[[The Technique]]|date=1999-09-10|accessdate=2007-04-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Hemanth Rao|last=Meka|url=http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/winter1998/feb27/campuslife4.html|title=Home Park Festival seeks to entertain neighbors, help kids|work=[[The Technique]]|date=1998-02-27|accessdate=2007-05-20}}</ref> |
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Tech has a number of legends and traditions, some of which have persisted for decades. Some are well-known; for example, the most notable of these is the popular but rare tradition of stealing the 'T' from [[Tech Tower]]. Tech Tower, Tech's historic primary administrative building, has the letters "TECH" hanging atop it on each of its four sides. There have been several attempts by students to orchestrate complex plans to steal the huge symbolic letter T, and on occasion they have carried this act out successfully. The latest instance of this tradition occurred in October 2005, when a replica of the T was stolen from the Student Services Building and returned two days later.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2005-10-07/news/1 | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070219100810/http://www.nique.net/issues/2005-10-07/news/1 | archivedate=2007-02-19 | title = Replica Tech Tower 'T' stolen from Student Services Building | last = Joshi | first = Nikhil | publisher = [[The Technique]] | date = 2005-10-07 | accessdate = 2006-12-19 |
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}}</ref> One of the cherished holdovers from Tech's early years, a [[steam whistle]] blows five minutes before the hour, every hour from 7:55 a.m. to 5:55 p.m.<ref name="webster2002">{{cite news | url = http://www.nique.net/issues/2002-08-23/focus/13 | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070929140657/http://www.nique.net/issues/2002-08-23/focus/13 | archivedate = 2007-09-29 | title = Freshman Survival: You certainly won’t find these in Webster’s... | work = [[The Technique]] | date = 2002-08-23 |accessdate = 2007-02-01 }}</ref> The faculty newspaper is named ''The Whistle'' because of the whistle's cultural significance to the school.<ref name="webster2004"/> |
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Georgia Tech holds a heated, long and ongoing rivalry with the [[University of Georgia]], known as [[Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate]]. The first known hostilities between the two institutions trace back to 1891. The University of Georgia's literary magazine proclaimed UGA's colors to be "[[old gold]], black, and crimson". [[Charles Herty|Dr. Charles H. Herty]], the first UGA football coach, felt that old gold was too similar to yellow and that it "symbolized cowardice". After the 1893 football game against Tech, Herty removed old gold as an official color.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/traditions/school_colors.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060614073737/http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/traditions/school_colors.html|archivedate=2006-06-14|title=School Colors, Stolen Girl Friends, and Yellow Jacket Treachery|first=Mike|last=Cheatham|publisher=[[University of Georgia]]|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref><ref name="ugacolors">{{cite web | first = Brandon | last = German | title = Official school colors | work = College Football Tradition | publisher = 1122productions.com | url = http://www.1122productions.com/tradition/colors/ | accessdate = 2007-03-16 }}</ref> Tech would first use old gold for their uniforms, as a proverbial slap in the face to UGA, in their first unofficial football game against [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn]] in 1891.<ref name="rw">{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/trads/geot-trads.html|title=Georgia Tech traditions|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-03-12}}</ref> Georgia Tech's school colors would henceforth be old gold and white. |
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=== Housing === |
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[[File:Gatech8th.png|thumb|right|Eighth Street Apartments are apartment-style residence halls that opened in 1995 as housing for the athletes and journalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics as a part of the [[Olympic Village]].|alt=A red brick and white concrete, four-story apartment building with a landscaped courtyard in the foreground]] |
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Georgia Tech Housing is subject to a clear geographic division of campus into eastern and western areas that contain the vast majority of housing. East Campus is largely populated by freshmen and is served by [[Brittain Dining Hall]]. West Campus houses some freshmen, transfer, and returning students (upperclassmen), and is served by Woodruff Dining Hall.<ref name=brittain>{{cite web|url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/20557|title=Dedication of Renovated Brittain Dining Hall Notes|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Library]]|date=2001-10-19|accessdate=2009-07-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://collegeprowler.com/georgia-institute-of-technology/campus-dining/|title=Georgia Institute of Technology - Campus Dining|work=[[College Prowler]]|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> Graduate students typically live off-campus (for example, in [[Home Park (Atlanta)|Home Park]]) or on-campus in the Graduate Living Center or 10th and Home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.housing.gatech.edu/reshalls/index.cfm|title=Residence Halls|publisher=Georgia Tech Housing|accessdate=2010-02-26}}</ref> |
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The Institute's administration has implemented programs to reduce the levels of stress and anxiety felt by Tech students. The Familiarization and Adaptation to the Surroundings and Environs of Tech (FASET) Orientation and Freshman Experience (a freshman-only dorm life program to "encourage friendships and a feeling of social involvement") programs, which seek to help acclimate new students to their surroundings and foster a greater sense of community.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.faset.gatech.edu/ | title=FASET Orientation | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | accessdate=2008-02-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freshmanexperience.gatech.edu/|title=Georgia Tech Freshman Experience|accessdate=2007-03-21|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology }}</ref> As a result, the Institute's retention rates have improved.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Retention%20Study/FTF.pdf|title=Annual First-Time Freshmen Retention Study|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Institutional Research and Planning|year=2006|accessdate=2007-09-11|format=PDF|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071127191922/http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Retention%20Study/FTF.pdf|archivedate=2007-11-27|deadurl=yes}}</ref> |
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In recent years, Georgia Tech Housing has been at or over capacity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/housing|title=Student Related Information: Housing|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> In Fall 2006, many dorms housed "triples", which was a project that put three residents into a two-person room. Certain pieces of furniture were not provided to the third resident as to accommodate a third bed. When spaces became available in other parts of campus, the third resident was moved elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news|first=James|last=Stephenson|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-08-25/news/2|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929135730/http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-08-25/news/2|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=Housing moves 150 dorm rooms to triples|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2006-08-25|accessdate=2007-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-08-25/opinions/1|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929133005/http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-08-25/opinions/1|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=Our Views Consensus Opinion: Three is a crowd|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2006-08-25|accessdate=2007-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Ranganath|last=Venkataraman|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-11-17/news/3|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929134141/http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-11-17/news/3|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=Students continue to live in triple dorms|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2007-11-17|accessdate=2007-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929134637/http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-03-09/opinions/1|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=Our Views Consensus Opinion|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2007-03-09|accessdate=2007-06-10}}</ref> Today Georgia Tech provides housing for 8,347 students, and housing is currently 99% occupied.<ref name = "Fall09FacultyProfile"/> |
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In the fall of 2007, the North Avenue Apartments were opened to Tech students. Originally built for the 1996 Olympics and belonging to Georgia State University, the buildings were gifted to Georgia Tech and have been used to accommodate Tech's expanding population. Georgia Tech freshmen students were the first to inhabit the dormitories in the Winter and Spring 1996 quarters, while much of East Campus was under renovation for the Olympics. The North Avenue Apartments (commonly known as "North Ave") are also noted as the first Georgia Tech buildings to rise above the top of Tech Tower. Open to second-year undergraduate students and above, the buildings are located on East Campus, across North Avenue and near Bobby Dodd Stadium, putting more upperclassmen on East Campus.<ref name="NAA">{{cite news | work=[[The Technique]] | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080329061535/http://nique.net/issues/2007-03-09/news/1 | archivedate = 2008-03-29 | accessdate=2008-06-14 | date=2007-03-09 | title=Tech acquires Ga. State dorms | first=Craig | last=Tabita }}</ref> Currently, the North Avenue Apartments East and North buildings are undergoing extensive renovation to the façade. During their construction, the bricks were not properly secured and thus were a safety hazard to pedestrians and vehicles on the Downtown Connector below.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news | work=[[The Technique]] | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://www.nique.net/nique/article/640 | accessdate=2008-11-14 | archiveurl = http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20081101184357/http://www.nique.net/nique/article/640 | archivedate = 2008-11-01 | date=2008-09-26 | title=First phase of North Avenue repair ends today | first=Corbin | last=Pon }} {{Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> |
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Two programs on campus as well have houses on East Campus: the International House (commonly referred to as the I-House); and Women, Science, and Technology. The I-House is housed in 4th Street East and Hayes. Women, Science, and Technology is housed in Goldin and Stein. The I-House hosts an International Coffee Hour every Monday night that class is in session from 6 to 7 pm, hosting both residents and their guests for discussions.<ref name="RHA">{{cite news | work=Resident Housing Association | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | url=http://www.housing.gatech.edu/features/FeatureDisplay.cfm?FEATNO=58 | accessdate=2008-11-14 | date=2008-11-01 | title=I-House Provides a Forum to Discuss the U.S. Political Future }}</ref> |
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=== Student clubs and activities === |
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Several extracurricular activities are available to students, including over 350 [[student organization]]s overseen by the Office of Student Involvement.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.catalog.gatech.edu/general/life/general.php | accessdate=2008-02-09 | title=Student Organizations | work=GT Catalog 2007–2008 | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | quote=Georgia Tech has more than 350 chartered student organizations that offer a variety of activities for student involvement.}}</ref> The Student Government Association (SGA), Georgia Tech's [[student government]], has separate [[executive (government)|executive]], [[legislature|legislative]], and [[judiciary|judicial]] branches for [[undergraduate student|undergraduate]] and [[graduate student]]s.<ref>{{cite web | title=Georgia Tech Student Government Association | url=http://www.sga.gatech.edu/ | accessdate=2008-02-09 | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology }}</ref> One of the SGA's primary duties is the disbursement of funds to student organizations in need of financial assistance. These funds are derived from the Student Activity Fee that all Georgia Tech students must pay, currently $123 per semester. The [[ANAK Society]], a [[secret society]] and [[honor society]] established at Georgia Tech in 1908, claims responsibility for founding many of Georgia Tech's earliest traditions and oldest student organizations, including the SGA.<ref name="Ramblins">{{cite news | work=[[The Technique]] | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | title=Ramblins | last=Edwards | first=Pat | url=http://technique.library.gatech.edu/issues/spring1997/apr18/campus7-s.html | accessdate=2007-12-21 |date=1997-04-18}}</ref> |
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{{See also|Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band|Ferst Center for the Arts}} |
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Georgia Tech's Music Department was established as part of the school's General College in 1963 under the leadership of Ben Logan Sisk. In 1976, the Music Department was assigned to the College of Sciences & Liberal Studies, and in 1991 it was relocated to its current home in the College of Architecture. In 2009, it was reorganized into the School of Music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.gatech.edu/alumni_friends/history|title=History|work=Alumni & Friends|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Music|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> The [[Georgia Tech Glee Club]], founded in 1906, is one of the oldest student organizations on campus, and still operates today as part of the School of Music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mensgleeclub.gatech.edu/About.html|title=About the Glee Club|publisher=Georgia Tech Glee Club|accessdate=2007-11-08|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080511130917/http://www.mensgleeclub.gatech.edu/About.html |archivedate = May 11, 2008|deadurl=yes}}</ref><ref name="music">{{cite news|first=Rusty|last=Johnson|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-02-25/campus%20life/1|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070908041524/http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-02-25/campus+life/1|archivedate=2007-09-08|title=Campus music programs have storied history|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2000-02-25|accessdate=2007-03-17}}</ref> The Glee Club was among the first collegiate choral groups to release a recording of their songs. The group has toured extensively and appeared on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' twice, providing worldwide exposure to "[[Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech]]".<ref name="singing">{{cite news|url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/spr06/article1.html|title=Century of Singing|work=Tech Topics|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=2006|accessdate=2007-06-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gleeclub.gatech.edu/index.php?p=ancient|title=Ancient History|publisher=Georgia Tech Glee Club|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> Today, the modern Glee Club performs dozens of times each semester for many different events, including official Georgia Tech ceremonies, banquets, and sporting events. It consists of 50 to 70 members and requires no audition or previous choral experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gleeclub.gatech.edu/index.php?p=joinus|title=Join Us|publisher=Georgia Tech Glee Club|accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref> |
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[[File:Bobby Dodd Stadium interior.jpg|thumb|left|[[Bobby Dodd Stadium]] at Historic Grant Field, home of the [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team]]|alt=A football stadium with a marching band in white uniforms on the field, with the goal post in the foreground and various buildings in the background]] |
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The [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band|Georgia Tech Band Program]], also in the School of Music, represents Georgia Tech at athletic events and provides Tech students with a musical outlet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catalog.gatech.edu/colleges/coa/music/bands/athletic.php|title=Georgia Tech Athletic Bands|publisher=[[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture|Georgia Tech College of Architecture]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> It was founded in 1908 by 14 students and Robert "Biddy" Bidez.<ref name="music"/> The marching band consistently fields over 300 members and invites students from other Atlanta universities who do not have football programs ([[Emory University|Emory]], [[Agnes Scott]], [[Kennesaw State University|Kennesaw State]], etc.) to participate. Members of the marching band travel to every football game. |
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The School of Music is also home to a number of successful and flourishing ensembles, such as the 80-to-90-member Symphony Orchestra,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.gatech.edu/ensembles/orchestra|title=Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Music|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> Jazz Ensemble,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.gatech.edu/ensembles/jazz_ensemble|title=Jazz Ensemble|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Music|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> Concert Band,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.gatech.edu/ensembles/concert_band|title=Concert Band|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Music|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> and Percussion and MIDI Ensembles.<ref name="music"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.gatech.edu/ensembles/percussion_midi|title=Percussion and MIDI Ensembles|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Music|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> Students also can opt to form their own small Chamber Ensembles, either for course credit or independently.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.gatech.edu/ensembles/chamber_ensembles|title=Chamber Ensembles|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Music|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> The contemporary Sonic Generator group, backed by the GVU and in collaboration with the Center for Music Technology, performs a diverse lineup of music featuring new technologies and recent composers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.gatech.edu/ensembles/sonic_generator|title=Sonic Generator|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Music|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> |
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Georgia Tech also has a music scene that is made up of groups that operate independently from the Music Department. These groups include three student-led [[a cappella]] groups: Nothin' but Treble,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nothinbuttreble.com/|title=Nothin' but Treble|publisher=Nothin' but Treble|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> Sympathetic Vibrations,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sympvibes.acaspot.com/|title=News|publisher=Sympathetic Vibrations|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> and Infinite Harmony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gtinfiniteharmony.com/|title=News|publisher=Infinite Harmony|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> Musician's Network, another student-led group, operates [[Under the Couch]], a live music venue and recording facility that was formerly located beneath the Couch Building on West Campus and is now located in the Student Center.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elue.phpwebhosting.com/utc/utc-is-awesome.php?ID=31| title=History Of UTC|accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gtmn.org/underthecouch/?page_id=24|title=Under the Couch » About Us|publisher=Musician's Network|accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref> |
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Many music, theatre, dance, and opera performances are held in the [[Ferst Center for the Arts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu/pages/about/|title=About Us|publisher=Ferst Center for the Arts|accessdate=2007-08-23|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070730134847/http://www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu/pages/about/ |archivedate = July 30, 2007|deadurl=yes}}</ref> [[DramaTech]] is the campus' student-run theater. The theater has been entertaining Georgia Tech and the surrounding community since 1947. They are also home to Let's Try This! (the campus [[Improvisational theatre|improv]] troupe) and VarietyTech (a song and dance troupe). [[Momocon]] is an annual [[anime]]/[[Video game|gaming]]/[[comics]] convention held on campus in March hosted by [[Anime O-Tekku]], the Georgia Tech anime club. The convention has free admission and was held in the Student Center, Instructional Center, and surrounding outdoor areas until 2010.<ref name="m2007">{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Guyton|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-03-30/entertainment/5|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070715100947/http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-03-30/entertainment/5|archivedate=2007-07-15|title=Third annual MomoCon draws 2,600 gaming fans|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2007-03-30|accessdate=2007-04-03}}</ref> Beginning in 2011, the convention moved its venue to locations in Technology Square.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/events/momocon-2011|title=MomoCon 2011|publisher=Georgia Tech College of Computing|accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref> |
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[[WREK]], 91.1 [[Megahertz|MHz]] is known as "Wreck Radio". The studio is on the second floor of the Student Center Commons. Broadcasting with 40 kW [[Effective radiated power|ERP]] and recently approved for an increase to 100 kW, WREK is among the nation's most powerful college radio stations.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/news/2009/03/06/gtcn-decides-to-drop-station-dedicated-to-wrek/|title=GTCN decides to drop station dedicated to WREK|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2009-03-06|accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wrekage.org/history.php|title=History|publisher=WREKage|accessdate=2009-08-16}}</ref> WREK is a student operated and run radio station. In April 2007, a debate was held regarding the future of the radio station. The prospective purchasers were [[Georgia Public Broadcasting|GPB]] and [[National Public Radio|NPR]]. WREK maintained its independence after dismissing the notion with approval from the Radio Communications Board of Georgia Tech.<ref>{{cite web|first=James|last=Stephenson|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-11-17/news/2|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080315222332/http://www.nique.net/issues/2006-11-17/news/2|archivedate=2008-03-15|title=PBA inquires about managing WREK|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2006-11-17|accessdate=2009-07-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-04-06/news/2|title=PBA meets with WREK|work=[[The Technique]]|first=James|last=Stephenson|date=2007-04-06|accessdate=2009-07-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Craig|last=Tabita|url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/13625|title=RCB meets with GPB representative|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2007-02-16|accessdate=2009-07-18}}</ref> |
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''[[The Technique]]'', also known as the "{{'}}''Nique''", is Tech's official [[student newspaper]]. It is distributed weekly during the Fall and Spring semesters (on Fridays), and biweekly during the Summer semester (with certain exceptions). It was established on November 17, 1911. ''[[Blueprint (yearbook)|Blueprint]]'' is Tech's yearbook, established in 1908.<ref name="bp">{{cite web|url=http://www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/blueprint/|title=Georgia Tech Blueprint Yearbook|publisher=[[Blueprint (yearbook)|Blueprint]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> Other student publications include ''The North Avenue Review'', Tech's "free-speech magazine",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/nar/|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080121080751/http://nar.zeshep.com/|archivedate=2008-01-12|title=North Avenue Review|publisher=North Avenue Review|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/5948|title=North Avenue Review|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Library|Georgia Tech Library and Information Center]]|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> ''Erato'', Tech's [[literary magazine]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/eratopub/|title=Erato|publisher=Erato|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref> ''The Tower'', Tech's undergraduate [[research journal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gttower.org/|title=The Tower|publisher=The Tower|accessdate=2010-09-19}}</ref> and ''T-Book'', the student handbook detailing Tech traditions.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/tbook/older/index.html | title=T-Book | accessdate=2009-10-18 }}</ref> The offices of all student publications are located in the Student Services Building.<ref name="bp"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nique.net/about/|title=About|publisher=[[The Technique]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> |
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Greek life at Georgia Tech includes 48 active chapters of social [[fraternities and sororities]].<ref name="factorg">{{cite web|url=http://factbook.gatech.edu/content/student-organizations|title=Student Related Information: Student Organizations|work=Georgia Tech Factbook|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | publisher=''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' | work=America's Best Colleges 2008 | title=Greek Life | url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drextras_1569_brief.php | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080213213012/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drextras_1569_brief.php | archivedate=2008-02-13 | year=2008 | accessdate=2008-02-09 }}</ref> All of the groups are chapters of national organizations, including members of the [[North-American Interfraternity Conference]], [[National Panhellenic Conference]], and [[National Pan-Hellenic Council]]. The first Greek letter fraternities to establish chapters at the Institute were [[Alpha Tau Omega]] in 1888, [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] in 1890, and [[Kappa Sigma]] in 1895. The first sorority to establish a chapter was [[Alpha Xi Delta]] in 1954.<ref name="factorg"/> Students with Greek affiliation make up around 21 percent of the [[undergraduate]] student body.<ref>{{cite web|title=Remarks by President Wayne Clough|date=2002-11-02|url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/21035/oop_02-044_Greek_Alum_Forum_11-02.pdf|quote=Only 21 percent of Tech undergrads are active Greeks, but Greeks or Greek events accounted for more than half of the 14 students hospitalized last year for alcohol poisoning, and for more than half of the seven cases we have had so far this year.|format=PDF}}</ref><!-- it would be nice to get a more recent statistic for this, preferably with a neutral source --> |
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Georgia Tech carries a strong reputation for being stressful. In 2001, ''[[The Princeton Review]]'' placed Tech among the 10 toughest colleges and universities in the United States<ref>{{cite web | date=2002-01-01 | url=http://gtalumni.org/buzzwords/pastissues/jan02/article8.html | accessdate=2008-02-09 | title=Princeton Review says Georgia Tech is One of the Toughest | work=BuzzWords | publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]] | quote=It's not news to students or graduates, but the Princeton Review confirms that Georgia Tech is one of the nation's toughest schools. }}</ref> and later reported that Tech's heavy workload led to "overly stressed" students with "minimal time for social functions".<ref>{{cite book | title=The Best Southeastern Colleges: 100 Great Schools to Consider | year=2003 | isbn=0375763295 | publisher=[[The Princeton Review]] | quote=Because of the heavy workload at Georgia Tech, most students are 'overly stressed, worried about tomorrow's test, and driven by the desire for the degree. This student has only minimal time for social functions.' | author=Robert Franek ... }}</ref> In 2002, the ''Review'' ranked Tech No. 2 on its list of colleges and universities with the "least happy students",<ref>{{cite news|last=Haynes|first=Derek|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20030328032312/cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique/issues/fall2002/2002-08-30/8.html|archivedate=2003-03-28|title=Princeton Review ranks Tech unhappy|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2002-08-30|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> prompting Institute officials to publish a report the following year responding to the negative publicity. The report criticized the ''Review'' for the lack of scientific rigor in its methods and referred to data from internal opinion surveys demonstrating increased student satisfaction in several areas.<ref>{{cite web | title=Just the Facts: Negative Publicity Perception at Georgia Tech | last=Gordon | first=Jonathan | year=2003 | publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Assessment | accessdate=2008-02-09 | url=http://www.assessment.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/Negative_Publicity_at_Georgia_Techfinal4.pdf | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5lhGVey6B | archivedate=2009-12-01 | format=PDF }} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> In 2010, ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' included Tech on its list of the 50 most stressful colleges and universities in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news | publisher=[[The Daily Beast]] | url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-04/the-50-most-stressful-colleges/ | title=The 50 Most Stressful Colleges | date=2010-04-04 | accessdate=2010-04-06 }}</ref> However, in 2010, the Daily Beast also listed Tech among the 100 happiest colleges indicating that student stress does not necessarily prevent student happiness.<ref>{{cite news | publisher=[[The Daily Beast]] | url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-11/the-100-happiest-colleges/ | title=The 100 Happiest Colleges | date=2010-05-12 | accessdate=2010-05-12 }}</ref> Among students, it is widely believed that a sacrifice of sleep, studying, or a social life defines "the Tech lifestyle".<ref>{{cite news | work=[[The Technique]] | publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology | quote=The famous comment about the Tech lifestyle is that you can only choose any two pursuits among sleeping, studying and a social life. | url=http://www.nique.net/nique/article/405 | accessdate=2008-06-09 | date=2008-05-23 | title=Absence of failure may be the key to real happiness | last=Kantor | first=Arcadiy |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080612230332/http://www.nique.net/nique/article/405 |archivedate = 2008-06-12}}</ref> For these reasons, students commonly refer to graduation from Tech as "[[Georgia Tech traditions#Getting Out|getting out]]".<ref name="webster2004"/> |
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{{Wide image|Georgia Tech from condo building at Peachtree St and North Ave.JPG|700px|Georgia Tech's East Campus and Central Campus as seen from an elevated point near [[Peachtree Street]] and [[North Avenue (Atlanta)|North Avenue]]. [[Bobby Dodd Stadium]] is in the foreground, [[Tech Tower]] and [[Junior's Grill]] are in the background to the left, and the [[Georgia Tech Aquatic Center]] is in the background and to the right. [[The Varsity]] is in the immediate foreground between the viewer and Bobby Dodd Stadium.|alt=An elevated view of several buildings and the trees surrounding them. A red brick building with a sloped roof is in the foreground, and a large white football stadium is just behind it, taking up much of the center of the picture. Beyond the stadium, there is a red brick smokestack near the center of the picture, the red brick Tech Tower building on the left side bearing white letters that spell "TECH", and the red brick physics building on the right side. In the background there is a white domed building. All around these buildings are green-leafed oak trees. An overcast, light blue sky takes up the top third of the picture.}} |
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The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown, an area north of downtown Atlanta. Although a number of skyscrapers—most visibly the headquarters of [[AT&T Midtown Center|AT&T]], [[Coca-Cola headquarters|The Coca-Cola Company]], and [[Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta)|Bank of America]]—are visible from all points on campus, the campus itself has few buildings over four stories and has a great deal of greenery. This gives it a distinctly [[suburb]]an atmosphere quite different from other Atlanta campuses such as that of Georgia State University.<ref name="map">{{cite web|url=http://gtalumni.org/map/|title=Campus Map|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|accessdate=2007-10-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/vtour/|title=Tech Virtual Tour|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2007-10-18}}</ref> |
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The campus is organized into four main parts: West Campus, East Campus, Central Campus, and Technology Square. West Campus and East Campus are both occupied primarily by student living complexes, while Central Campus is reserved primarily for teaching and research buildings.<ref name="map"/> |
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=== West Campus === |
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[[File:Georgia Tech CRC Front.jpg|thumb|right|The front of the [[Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center]]|alt=A large, white, multi-story building constructed from concrete, metal and glass with several tiered, curved roof segments framing long panels of windows. The building is set back on a large green lawn with several small pine trees.]] |
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West Campus is occupied primarily by apartments and coed undergraduate dormitories. Apartments include [[Hemphill Avenue Apartments|Crecine]], [[Center Street Apartments|Center Street]], 6th Street, Maulding, Undergraduate Living Center (ULC), and Eighth Street Apartments, while dorms include [[Freeman Hall (Georgia Tech)|Freeman]], [[Montag Hall (Georgia Tech)|Montag]], [[Fitten Hall (Georgia Tech)|Fitten]], [[Folk Hall (Georgia Tech)|Folk]], [[Caldwell Hall (Georgia Tech)|Caldwell]], Armstrong, Hefner, [[Fulmer Hall (Georgia Tech)|Fulmer]], and Woodruff Suites.<ref name="map"/> The [[Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center|Campus Recreation Center]] (formerly the Student Athletic Complex); a [[volleyball]] court; a large, low natural green area known as the [[Burger Bowl]]; and a flat artificial green area known as the CRC (formerly SAC) Fields are all located on the western side of the campus. |
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West Campus was formerly home to [[Under the Couch]], which relocated to the [[Student Center]] in the fall of 2010. Also within walking distance of West Campus are several late-night eateries and Engineer's Bookstore, an alternative to Georgia Tech's official bookstore.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/focus/2008/08/22/sticker-shock-get-textbook-deals-for-any-budget/|title=Sticker shock? Get textbook deals for any budget|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2008-08-22|first=Jenny|last=Morgan|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> West campus is home to a convenience store, West Side Market. Due to limited space, all auto travel proceeds via a network of one-way streets which connects West Campus to Ferst Drive, the main road of the campus. Woodruff Dining Hall, or "Woody's", is the West Campus Dining Hall.<ref name=brittain/> It connects the Woodruff North and Woodruff South undergraduate dorms. |
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=== East Campus === |
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[[File:Britain_Hall.JPG|right|thumb|[[Brittain Dining Hall]], the main dining hall for East Campus.|alt=A wide, red brick building with a tower in the center and grey concrete archways spaced along the length of the building.]] |
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East Campus houses all of the fraternities and sororities as well as most of the undergraduate freshman dormitories. Although the residences are similar, East Campus is more urban than West Campus. East Campus abuts the [[Downtown Connector]], granting residences quick access to Midtown and its businesses (for example, [[The Varsity]]) via a number of bridges over the highway as well as a tunnel beneath it. Georgia Tech football's home, [[Bobby Dodd Stadium]] is located on East Campus, as well as Georgia Tech basketball's home Alexander Memorial Coliseum.<ref name="map"/> |
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Brittain Dining Hall is the main dining hall for East Campus. It is modeled after a [[Gothic architecture|medieval church]], complete with carved columns and stained glass windows showing symbolic figures.<ref name=brittain/> The main road leading from East Campus to Central Campus is an ascending incline commonly known as "Freshman Hill" (in reference to the large number of freshman dorms near its foot) or simply "The Hill". On March 8, 2007, the former Georgia State University Village apartments were transferred to Georgia Tech. Renamed North Avenue Apartments by the institute, they began housing students in the fall semester of 2007.<ref name="NAA" /> |
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=== Central Campus === |
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Central Campus is home to the majority of the academic, research, and administrative buildings. The Central Campus includes, among others: the Howey Physics Building; the Boggs Chemistry Building; the College of Computing Building; the [[Klaus Advanced Computing Building]]; the College of Architecture Building; the Skiles Classroom Building, which houses the School of Mathematics and the School of Literature, Communication and Culture; the [[D. M. Smith]] Building, which houses the School of Public Policy; and the Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building.<ref name="map"/> In 2005, the School of Modern Languages returned to the Swann Building, a 100-year-old former dormitory that now houses some of the most technology-equipped classrooms on campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.modlangs.gatech.edu/about-modlangs/|title=About the School|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Modern Languages|accessdate=2009-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/gtbuildings/buildings_frame.htm|title=Swann Dormitory (1901)|work=A Thousand Wheels are set in Motion|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Library|Georgia Tech Library and Information Center]]|accessdate=2009-07-27}}</ref> Intermingled with these are a variety of research facilities, such as the Centennial Research Building, the Microelectronics Research Center, the [[Neely Nuclear Research Center]], the [[Nanotechnology Research Center]], and the Petit Biotechnology Building. |
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[[File:Carnegie Building 6272.jpg|left|thumb|The Carnegie Building, constructed in 1907, is located in the [[Georgia Institute of Technology Historic District|Historic District]] of Central Campus. It was originally the campus library, and it now houses the President's office. |alt=A one-story brick building with grey concrete stairs in the center leading to a door with a column on either side of it. There are three long windows on each side of the building.]] |
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Tech's administrative buildings, such as Tech Tower, and the Bursar's Office, are also located on the Central Campus, in the recently renovated Georgia Tech Historic District.<ref>{{cite news|title=New construction on the Hill recreates historic appearance near Tech Tower|first=Neeraj|last=Kumar|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2000-09-22|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-09-22/news/2|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929134244/http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-09-22/news/2|archivedate=2007-09-29|accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/git.htm|title=Georgia Institute of Technology Historic District|publisher=National Park Service Atlanta|accessdate=2007-05-26}}</ref> The [[Georgia Tech Library|campus library]], plus a small traditional eatery called [[Junior's Grill]], the Fred B. Wenn Student Center, and the Student Services Building ("Flag Building") are also located on Central Campus. The Student Center provides a variety of recreational and social functions for students including: a computer lab, a game room ("Tech Rec"),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foef.gatech.edu/techrec/|title=Tech Rec|work=Fun On Every Floor|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2007-08-23 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070822132657/http://www.foef.gatech.edu/techrec/ |archivedate = August 22, 2007}}</ref> the Student Post Office, a music venue, a [[movie theater]], the Food Court, plus meeting rooms for various clubs and organizations. Adjacent to the eastern entrance of the Student Center is the [[Kessler Campanile]] (which is referred to by students as "The Shaft").<ref name="webster2004">{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2004-08-20/freshman%20survival%20guide/8|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071215042616/http://www.nique.net/issues/2004-08-20/freshman+survival+guide/8|archivedate=2007-12-15|title=You certainly won’t find these in Webster’s...|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2004-08-20|accessdate=2007-05-20}}</ref> The former Hightower Textile Engineering building was demolished in 2002 to create Yellow Jacket Park. More greenspace now occupies the area around the Kessler Campanile for a more aesthetically pleasing look, in accordance with the official Campus Master Plan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.gatech.edu/masterplan/index.html|title=Campus Master Plan|publisher=Georgia Tech Capital Planning & Space Management|year=2004|accessdate=2007-08-22}}</ref> In 2008, construction began on the [[Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons|G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons]], which will be located next to the library and occupy at least part of the Yellow Jacket Park area.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/news/2008/07/11/clough-building-plans-finalized-for-construction/|title=Clough building plans finalized for construction|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2008-07-11|accessdate=2011-02-25|first=Kaitlin|last=Goodrich}}</ref> |
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=== Technology Square === |
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Technology Square, also known as "Tech Square", is located across the Downtown Connector and embedded in the city east of East Campus.<ref>{{cite web | publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Development | accessdate=2008-02-09 | title=Technology Square | url=http://www.development.gatech.edu/projects/TSQ/ | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080213210914/http://www.development.gatech.edu/projects/TSQ/ | archivedate=2008-02-13 }}</ref> Opened in August 2003 at a cost of $179 million, the district was built over run-down neighborhoods and has sparked a revitalization of the entire Midtown area.<ref name="reconnect"/><ref name="revit"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvs-design.com/2010/09/georgia-institute-of-technology-technology-square-leed-nc-silver/|title=Georgia Institute of Technology – Technology Square, LEED NC Silver|publisher=[[Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates|TVS]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> Connected by the recently renovated Fifth Street Bridge, it is a pedestrian-friendly area comprising Georgia Tech facilities and retail locations.<ref name="reconnect"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-01-19/news/1|work=[[The Technique]]|title=Renovated Fifth Street Bridge opens|first=James|last=Stephenson|date=2007-01-19|accessdate=2007-03-25|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070929133231/http://www.nique.net/issues/2007-01-19/news/1 |archivedate = September 29, 2007|deadurl=yes}}</ref> One complex contains the College of Management Building, holding classrooms and office space for the College of Management, as well as the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center and the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.<ref>{{cite news|first=Arjun|last=Subramanian|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2003-06-13/news/3|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929141003/http://www.nique.net/issues/2003-06-13/news/3|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=Management prepares for Tech Square move|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2003-06-13|accessdate=2009-08-03}}</ref> Another part of Tech Square, the privately owned Centergy One complex, contains the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB), holding faculty and graduate student offices for the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the [[GVU Center]], a multidisciplinary technology research center.<ref name="reconnect"/> |
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Other Georgia Tech-affiliated buildings in the area host the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, the Advanced Technology Development Center, VentureLab, and the Georgia Electronics Design Center. Technology Square also hosts a variety of restaurants and businesses, including the headquarters of notable consulting companies like Accenture and also including the official Institute bookstore, a [[Barnes & Noble College Booksellers|Barnes & Noble]] bookstore, and a Georgia Tech-themed [[Waffle House]].<ref name="revit">{{cite web | url=http://www.revitalizationonline.com/article.asp?id=1141 | title=Georgia Tech's Technology Square | date=2006-01-01 | publisher=RevitalizationOnline | author = TVS | authorlink = Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates |accessdate=2008-02-09 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080511020037/http://www.revitalizationonline.com/article.asp?id=1141 |archivedate = May 11, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nique.net/news/100543|title=Auxiliary Services, Waffle House break ground|work=[[The Technique]]|first=Vivian|last=Fan|date=2010-02-11|accessdate=2010-07-22}}</ref> |
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In 1999, Georgia |
In 1999, Georgia Tech began offering local degree programs to engineering students in Southeast Georgia, and in 2003 established a physical campus in [[Savannah, Georgia]].<ref>{{cite pressrelease|url=http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/gtrep-groundbreaking.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030402062237/http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/gtrep-groundbreaking.html|archivedate=2003-04-02|title=Georgia Tech, SEDA to Break Ground For New GTREP Campus in Savannah|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2002-06-10|accessdate=2007-08-12}}</ref> [[Georgia Tech Savannah]] offers undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, and boasts a robust research program with many activities centered on coastal concerns. It is also home to the regional offices of the Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute and the Advanced Technology Development Center.<ref name="gtsav">{{cite pressrelease|url=http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=196|title=Georgia Tech Opens Campus in Savannah|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2003-10-14|accessdate=2007-08-12}}</ref> The Georgia Tech Savannah campus offers engineering programs in conjunction with [[Georgia Southern University]], [[South Georgia College]], [[Armstrong Atlantic State University]], and [[Savannah State University]].<ref name="address">{{cite news|first=Jennifer|last=Dykes|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/1999-10-15/news/1|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929141114/http://www.nique.net/issues/1999-10-15/news/1|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=Clough addresses Institute|work=[[The Technique]]|date=1999-10-15|accessdate=2007-05-22}}</ref> The university further collaborated with the [[National University of Singapore]] to set up The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific in [[Singapore]].<ref name="address"/> |
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Georgia Tech also operates a campus in [[Metz, France|Metz]], in northeastern France, known as [[Georgia Tech Lorraine]]. Opened in October 1990, it offers master's-level courses in [[Electrical engineering|Electrical]] and [[Computer Engineering]], [[Computer Science]] and [[Mechanical Engineering]] and Ph.D. coursework in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiatech-metz.fr/about-gtl |title=About Georgia Tech Lorraine |publisher=[[Georgia Tech Lorraine]] |accessdate=2007-01-29}}</ref> Georgia Tech Lorraine is known for a much-publicized lawsuit pertaining to the language used in advertisements; ''see [[Toubon Law#Enforcement against French subsidiaries of US-based organizations|Toubon Law]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/06/business/francophones-sue-net-site.html?src=pm|title=Francophones Sue Net Site|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1997-01-06|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/10/business/french-purists-lose-their-cases.html|title=French Purists Lose Their Cases|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1997-06-10|accessdate=2011-02-27}}</ref> |
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The College of Architecture maintains a small permanent presence in Paris, France in affiliation with the [[École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette|École d'architecture de Paris-La Villette]] and the College of Computing has a similar program with the [[Barcelona School of Informatics]] at the [[Polytechnic University of Catalonia]] in [[Barcelona, Spain]]. There are additional programs in [[Athlone, Ireland]], [[Shanghai, China]], and [[Singapore]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Campuses & Global Reach | url = http://www.gatech.edu/campuses | publisher = Georgia Institute of Technology | accessdate = 2009-07-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coa.gatech.edu/arch/international/paris.php|title=Paris Program|publisher=Georgia Tech College of Architecture|accessdate=2009-07-27 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080612070747/http://www.coa.gatech.edu/arch/international/paris.php |archivedate = June 12, 2008}}</ref> Georgia Tech will set up two campuses for research and graduate education in the cities of [[Visakhapatnam]] and [[Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]] by the year 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.coe.gatech.edu/feature/8_2007recap.php|title=A Look Back / A Look Forward|publisher=[[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering|Georgia Tech College of Engineering]]|date=August 2007|accessdate=2008-06-02|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080517040136/http://www.coe.gatech.edu/feature/8_2007recap.php |archivedate = May 17, 2008|deadurl=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Hyderabad/Georgia_Tech_plans_SEZ/articleshow/2695672.cms|title=Georgia Tech plans SEZ|publisher=[[The Times of India]]|date=2008-01-13|accessdate=2008-06-02|first1=Ganesh S|last1=Lakshman}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://indiaedunews.net/International/Georgia_Tech_to_set_up_campus_in_Hyderabad_1277/|title=Georgia Tech to set up campus in Hyderabad|work=[[Indo-Asian News Service]]|publisher=Pragati Infosoft|date=2007-06-06|accessdate=2008-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Kent|last=Hoover|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20141655/|title=U.S. universities expand overseas efforts to keep global edge|archiveurl=http://freeagentu.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/us-universities-expand-overseas-efforts-to-keep-global-edge/|archivedate=2007-08-07|work=MSNBC|date=2007-08-05|accessdate=2007-08-09}}</ref><!-- |
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The India campuses were also mentioned in the following, but the links are dead:<ref>{{cite news|first=Usha|last=Kantheti|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2005-09-09/focus/1|title=Tech explores educational prospects in India, China|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2005-09-09|accessdate=2007-08-09}}</ref> --> |
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[[Georgia Tech Cable Network]], or GTCN, is the college's branded cable source. The station broadcasts WREK-FM on channel 17, in addition to student-generated content and recent movies on channels 20 and 21. Most non-original programming is obtained from [[Dish Network]]. GTCN currently has 100 [[Standard-definition television|standard-definition]] channels and 23 [[high-definition television|high-definition]] channels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gtcn.gatech.edu/Pages/ChannelLineup.aspx|title=Channel Lineup|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Cable Network]]|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> |
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The Office of Information Technology, or OIT, manages most of the Institute's computing resources (and some related services such as campus telephones). With the exception of a few computer labs maintained by individual [[Georgia Institute of Technology#Colleges|colleges]], OIT is responsible for most of the computing facilities on campus. Student, faculty, and staff e-mail accounts are among its services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oit.gatech.edu/|title=OIT Home Page|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Information Technology|accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref> Georgia Tech's [[ResNet]] provides free technical support to all students and guests living in Georgia Tech's on-campus housing (excluding fraternities and sororities). ResNet is responsible for network, telephone, and television service, and most support is provided by part-time student employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.resnet.gatech.edu/|title=ResNet|publisher=Georgia Tech ResNet|accessdate=2007-03-16}}</ref> |
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Minor crimes around Georgia Tech are commonplace, a reflection of the Institute's densely populated urban surroundings. The campus is patrolled by the Georgia Tech Police Department, whose Patrol Division comprises 60 officers.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.police.gatech.edu/patrol.htm | title=Patrol Division | publisher=Georgia Tech Police Department | accessdate=2008-02-09 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080206061142/http://www.police.gatech.edu/patrol.htm |archivedate = February 6, 2008}}</ref> The most common crime reported over the last few years, by a large margin, is [[larceny]].<ref name="CrimeStats">{{cite web | title=Crime Statistics | publisher=Georgia Tech Police Department | accessdate=2008-02-09 | url=http://www.police.gatech.edu/crimestats.htm |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071224112153/http://www.police.gatech.edu/crimestats.htm |archivedate = December 24, 2007}}</ref> Between 2004 and 2006, there were only 32 [[violent crime]]s reported, most of them robberies.<ref name="CrimeStats" /> Although the crime rate in Atlanta during the late 1980s and 1990s was the highest in the nation,<ref name="nytimes-crime">{{cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DB103DF934A15757C0A96F948260|accessdate=2008-10-11|work=The New York Times|title=Atlanta, Used to Praise, Confronts Crime Ranking | first=Peter | last=Applebome | date=1989-04-27}}</ref> it has been declining since the late 1960s and the city now is the seventeenth most-dangerous city in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Atlanta's violent crime at lowest level since '69 | work = [[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] | date = 2006-09-27 | url = http://www.atlantada.com:8080/aboutADA/viewArticle.jsp?title=Violent%20crime%20in%20Atlanta%20lowest%20since%201969 | accessdate = 2006-09-29 | archiveurl= | archivedate= }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Atlanta Pleased With Crime Ranking, Macon Has Doubts, Augusta Not Reported|url=http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/local/4525746.html|work=[[WAGT]]|publisher=nbcagusta.com|first=Tempress|last=Nichols|date=2007-08-16|accessdate=2008-10-11}}</ref> The construction of large projects such as the [[Olympic Village]] and Technology Square have contributed to reduced crime rates by [[gentrify]]ing the surrounding area.<ref name=realestate-market-since-olympics/><ref name="reconnect">{{cite pressrelease|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=198|title=Georgia Tech Reconnects, Renews Section of Atlanta Business District with Technology Square|date=2003-10-20|accessdate=2009-07-31|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology}}</ref> |
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Georgia Tech's [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets|sports teams]] are variously called the ''[[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets|Yellow Jackets]]'', the ''[[Ramblin' Wreck]]'', and the ''[[Engineer]]s'', but the official nickname is ''Yellow Jackets''. They participate in [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I]] within the [[Atlantic Coast Conference]]. The college was a charter member of the [[Southeastern Conference]], and played in that league until 1964. The Institute mascots are [[Buzz (mascot)|Buzz]] and the [[Rambling Wreck|Ramblin' Wreck]]. The Institute's traditional [[American football|football]] [[college rivalry|rival]] is the [[University of Georgia]]; the rivalry was, at one time, considered one of the fiercest in college football. The rivalry is commonly referred to as [[Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate]], which is also the title of a book about the subject.<ref>{{cite book |
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}}</ref> Tech has seventeen varsity sports: [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|football]], [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's basketball|women's]] and [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball|men's basketball]], [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball|baseball]], softball, volleyball, golf, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's track and field, and men's and women's cross country. Four Georgia Tech football teams were selected as [[NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship|national champions]] in news polls: 1917, 1928, 1952, and 1990. In May 2007, the [[2006-07 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's tennis team|women's tennis team]] won the [[NCAA Women's Tennis Championship|NCAA National Championship]] with a 4–2 victory over UCLA, the first ever national title granted by the NCAA to Tech.<ref name="wtennis">{{cite news|url=http://www.cstv.com/sports/w-tennis/stories/052207aax.html|title=Georgia Tech Wins NCAA Women's Tennis Title|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|date=2007-05-22|accessdate=2007-05-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2879724|title=Georgia Tech captures first NCAA women's tennis title|work=ESPNU|publisher=ESPN.com|date=2007-05-23|accessdate=2007-05-23}}</ref> |
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Tech's [[fight song]] [[Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech|"I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech"]] is known worldwide. First published in the 1908 [[Blueprint (yearbook)|''Blue Print'']],<ref name="songs">{{cite news|first=Pat|last=Edwards|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-08-25/online%20exclusives/11|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070929134618/http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-08-25/online+exclusives/11|archivedate=2007-09-29|title=Fight Songs|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2000-08-25|accessdate=2007-04-10}}</ref> it was adapted from an old drinking song ("Son of a Gambolier")<ref name="songs"/> and embellished with trumpet flourishes by Frank Roman.<ref name="song">{{cite web |
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}}</ref> Then-[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Premier of the Soviet Union|Soviet Premier]] [[Nikita Khrushchev]] sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1958 to reduce the tension between them.<ref name="songs"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/sum91/fighting.html|title=Who's No. 1? Fighting Words About Battle Hymns|work=Tech Topics|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1991|accessdate=2007-05-20}}</ref> As the story goes, Nixon did not know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American one as it had been sung on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''.<ref name="songs"/> |
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"I'm a Ramblin' Wreck" has had many other notable moments in its history. It is reportedly the first school song to have been played in [[space]].<ref name="archive">{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/finding-aids/display/xsl/UA318|title=Inventory of the Georgia Tech Songs Collection, 1900–1953|publisher=Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management|accessdate=2007-05-20}}</ref> [[Gregory Peck]] sang the song while strumming a [[ukulele]] in the movie ''[[The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit]]''. [[John Wayne]] whistled it in ''[[The High and the Mighty (film)|The High and the Mighty]]''. Tim Holt's character sings a few bars of it in the movie ''[[His Kind of Woman]]''. There are numerous stories of commanding officers in [[Higgins boat]]s crossing the [[English Channel]] on the morning of [[D-Day]] leading their men in the song to calm their nerves.<ref name="archive"/> It is played after every Georgia Tech score in a football game.<ref name="songs">{{cite news|first=Pat|last=Edwards|url=http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-08-25/online%20exclusives/11|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071215004924/http://www.nique.net/issues/2000-08-25/online+exclusives/11|archivedate=2007-12-15|title=Fight Songs|work=[[The Technique]]|date=2000-08-25|accessdate=2009-07-29}}</ref> |
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Another popular fight song is "Up with the White and Gold", which is usually played by the band preceding "Ramblin' Wreck". First published in 1919, "Up with the White and Gold" was also written by Frank Roman. The song's title refers to Georgia Tech's [[school colors]] and its lyrics contain the phrase, "Down with the Red and Black", an explicit reference to the school colors of the University of Georgia and the then-budding [[Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate|Georgia Tech–UGA rivalry]].<ref name="archive"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtraditions/sounds/whiteandgold.html|title=White and Gold|work=Ramblin' Memories: Traditions, Legends and Sounds of Georgia Tech|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|accessdate=2008-02-03 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20071228073027/http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtraditions/sounds/whiteandgold.html |archivedate = December 28, 2007}}</ref> |
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Georgia Tech participates in many non-NCAA sanctioned club sports, including [[sport rowing|crew]], [[cricket]], [[cycling]] (winning three consecutive Dirty South Collegiate Cycling Conference mountain bike championships), [[Horse#Sport|equestrian]], [[fencing (sport)|fencing]], [[field hockey]], [[gymnastics]], [[ice hockey]], [[kayaking]], [[lacrosse]], [[paintball]], [[roller hockey]], [[soccer]], [[rugby union]], [[sailing]], [[skydiving]], [[table tennis]], [[triathlon]], [[Ultimate (sport)|ultimate]], [[water polo]], water ski, and [[wrestling]]. Many club sports take place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, where swimming, diving, water polo, and the swimming portion of the [[modern pentathlon]] competitions for the 1996 Summer Olympics were held.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/genrel/032102aae.html|title=Georgia Tech Aquatic Center|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-05-25}}</ref> |
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There are many notable graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech alumni are generally known as Yellow Jackets. According to the Georgia Tech [[Alumni association|Alumni Association]]:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gtalumni.org/uploads/bylaws.pdf|title=Bylaws of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Inc.|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|accessdate=2007-05-03|format=PDF |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060515055510/http://gtalumni.org/uploads/bylaws.pdf |archivedate = May 15, 2006}}</ref> |
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The first class of 95 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888,<ref name="GTB1">{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/gtbuildings/GTVA-UKL999-A.htm|title=GT Buildings: GTVA-UKL999-A|work=A Thousand Wheels are set in Motion: The Building of Georgia Tech at the Turn of the 20th Century, 1888–1908|publisher=Georgia Tech Library|accessdate=2007-01-29}}</ref> and the first two graduates received their degrees in 1890.<ref name="twq">{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/tech_questions.html|title=20 Common Questions about Georgia Tech|publisher=Georgia Tech Archives and Records Management|accessdate=2007-03-13}}</ref> Since then, the institute has greatly expanded, with an enrollment of 13,672 undergraduates and 6,815 postgraduate students {{As of|2010|alt=as of Fall 2010}}.<ref name="Fall10Enroll"/> |
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Many distinguished individuals once called Georgia Tech home, the most notable being [[Jimmy Carter]], former President of the United States and [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner, who briefly attended Georgia Tech in the early 1940s before matriculating at and graduating from the [[United States Naval Academy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nrotc.gatech.edu/history.php|title=History of the NROTC Unit at Georgia Institute of Technology|publisher=Georgia Tech NROTC|accessdate=2007-03-05}}</ref> Another Georgia Tech graduate and [[Nobel Prize]] winner, [[Kary Mullis]], received the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 1993.<ref name="km">{{cite news|first=Gary|last=Goettling|url=http://alt.gtalumni.org/news/magazine/sum94/mullis.html|title=The Unconventional Genius of Dr. Kary Banks Mullis|work=Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1994|accessdate=2007-03-06}}</ref> A large number of businesspeople (including but not limited to prominent [[CEO]]s and directors) began their careers at Georgia Tech.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mgt.gatech.edu/downloads/2005/2005_mba_viewbook.pdf|title=College of Management MBA Program 2005|publisher=[[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Management|Georgia Tech College of Management]]|accessdate=2007-03-24|format=PDF |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20061209184250/http://mgt.gatech.edu/downloads/2005/2005_mba_viewbook.pdf |archivedate = December 9, 2006}}</ref><ref name="comal">{{cite pressrelease|url=http://mgt.gatech.edu/news_room/news/2007/articles/alumniawards.html|title=College of Management Honors Exceptional Alumni at Fourth Annual Celebration|publisher=[[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Management]]|date=2006-05-01|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> Some of the most successful of these are [[Charles (Garry) Betty|Charles "Garry" Betty]] (CEO [[Earthlink]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earthlink.net/about/leaders/betty/|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071218140642/http://www.earthlink.net/about/leaders/betty/|archivedate=2007-12-18|title=EarthLink's Leadership: Charles (Gary) Betty|publisher=[[EarthLink]]|accessdate=2009-08-01}}</ref> [[David Dorman]] (CEO [[AT&T Corporation]]),<ref name="comal"/> [[Mike Duke]] (CEO [[Wal-Mart]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investors.walmartstores.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112761&p=irol-govBio&ID=47019|title=Michael T. Duke|publisher=Wal-Mart Stores|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> and [[James D. Robinson III]] (CEO [[American Express]] and later director of [[The Coca-Cola Company]]).<ref>{{cite news|last=Schwartz|first=Jerry|url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/sum93/own.html|title=On His Own|work=Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1993|accessdate=2009-08-01}}</ref> |
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Tech graduates have been deeply influential in politics, military service, and activism. [[Atlanta]] mayor [[Ivan Allen Jr.|Ivan Allen, Jr.]] and former [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] [[Sam Nunn]] have both made significant changes from within their elected offices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iac.gatech.edu/legacy/timeline.htm|title=Ivan Allen Jr. Timeline|publisher=[[Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts]]|accessdate=2007-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://alt.gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/spr90/nunn.html|title=A Conversation With Sam Nunn|work=Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1990|accessdate=2007-03-06}}</ref> Former Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough was also a Tech graduate, the first Tech alumnus to serve in that position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irp.gatech.edu/05_FB_PDF/05FB_HTML/05_p29_Presidents.html|title=Presidents of Georgia Tech|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Institutional Research and Planning|accessdate=2007-03-06|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070814143815/http://www.irp.gatech.edu/05_FB_PDF/05FB_HTML/05_p29_Presidents.html |archivedate = August 14, 2007|deadurl=yes}}</ref> Many notable military commanders are alumni; [[William L. Ball]] was the 67th [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/20786a.htm|title=Appointment of William L. Ball III as Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs|work=Public Papers of Ronald Reagan|publisher=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library|date=1986-02-07|accessdate=2007-03-07}}</ref> [[John M. Brown III]] is the Commander of the [[United States Army Pacific Command]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usarpac.army.mil/bios/comgen.asp|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071006034803/http://www.usarpac.army.mil/bios/comgen.asp|archivedate=2007-10-06|title=Lieutenant General John M. Brown III|publisher=United States Army, Pacific|accessdate=2007-03-07}}</ref> and [[Leonard Wood]] was Chief of Staff of the Army and a [[Medal of Honor]] recipient for helping capture of the Apache chief [[Geronimo]].<ref name="wood">{{cite news|first=Joseph|last=Byrd|url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/spr92/FOW.html|title=From Civil War Battlefields to the Moon: Leonard Wood|work=Tech Topics|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1992|accessdate=2007-03-12}}</ref> Wood was also Tech's first football coach and (simultaneously) the team captain, and was instrumental in Tech's first-ever football victory in a game against the University of Georgia.<ref name="wood"/> [[Thomas McGuire]] was the second-highest scoring American ace during World War II and a Medal of Honor recipient.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jointbasemdl.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3895|title=Major Thomas B. McGuire Jr.|publisher=Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst|accessdate=2011-02-25}}</ref> |
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Numerous astronauts and [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA) administrators spent time at Tech; most notably, Retired Vice Admiral [[Richard H. Truly]] was the eighth administrator of NASA, and later served as the president of the Georgia Tech Research Institute.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/truly-rh.html|title=Astronaut Bio:Richard H. Truly|publisher=[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]]|date=1992–03|accessdate=2007-03-07}}</ref> [[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]] was the first commander of the space shuttle and is the only person to have piloted four different classes of spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/young.html|title=Astronaut Bio: John Young|publisher=[[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]]|date=2005–05|accessdate=2007-03-07}}</ref> Georgia Tech has its fair share of noteworthy engineers, scientists, and inventors. Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis developed the [[polymerase chain reaction]],<ref name="km"/> [[Herbert Saffir]] developed the [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Engineering Hall of Fame: College inducts alumni who have made "significant impact on the world"|url=http://alt.gtalumni.org/news/ttopics/win95/hallfame.html|work=Tech Topics|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1995|accessdate=2007-03-07}}</ref> and [[W. Jason Morgan]] made significant contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/vetlesen/recipients/2000/morgan_bio.html|title=Biography of Vetlesen Prize Winner|publisher=Trustees of Columbia University|accessdate=2007-03-07}}</ref> In computer science, [[Krishna Bharat]] developed [[Google News]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/content/view/794/570/|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060901175635/http://www.cc.gatech.edu/content/view/794/570/|archivedate=2006-09-11|title=Alumni Spotlight: Krishna Bharat|publisher=[[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing|Georgia Tech College of Computing]]|accessdate=2009-08-01}}</ref> and [[D. Richard Hipp]] developed [[SQLite]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_spkr/1869|title=Speaker D. Richard Hipp|publisher=O'Reilly Open Source Convention|accessdate=2007-03-09}}</ref> Architect [[Michael Arad]] designed the [[World Trade Center Memorial]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/profiles/arad.php|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070611074024/http://www.gatech.edu/profiles/arad.php|archivedate=2007-06-11|title=Profiles: Michael Arad|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|accessdate=2007-03-09}}</ref> |
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Despite their highly technical backgrounds, Tech graduates are no strangers to the arts or athletic competition. Among them, comedian/actor [[Jeff Foxworthy]] of [[Blue Collar Comedy Tour]] fame and [[Randolph Scott]] both called Tech home.<ref>{{cite news|first=Gary|last=Goettling|url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/fall92/redneck.html|title=Redneck Repartee|work=Tech Topics|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=1992|accessdate=2007-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Boyd D|last=Cathey|url=http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/123/entry| title=Randolph Scott (1898–1987)|work=North Carolina History Project|accessdate=2007-03-05}}</ref> Several famous athletes have, as well; about 150 Tech students have gone into the [[National Football League]] (NFL),<ref name="dfnfl">{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=Georgia+Institute+of+Technology|title=National Football League players who Attended Georgia Tech|publisher=databaseFootball.com|accessdate=2007-03-13}}</ref> with many others going into the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) or [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB).<ref name="dbnba">{{cite web|url=http://www.databasebasketball.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=Georgia+Institute+of+Technology|title=NBA players who Attended Georgia Institute of Technology|publisher=databaseBasketball.com|accessdate=2007-03-18}}</ref><ref name="brl">{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/gatech.shtml|title=Players who Played for Georgia Institute of Technology|work=baseball-reference.com|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|accessdate=2007-03-14}}</ref> Well-known American football athletes include all-time greats such as [[Joe Hamilton (football player)|Joe Hamilton]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/hamilton_joe00.html|title=Player Bio: Joe Hamilton|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-03-08}}</ref> [[Pat Swilling]],<ref name="honors">{{cite web|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/geot/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/HONORS.pdf|title=Georgia Tech Honors|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|year=2007|accessdate=2007-09-30|format=PDF}}</ref> [[Billy Shaw]],<ref name="dfnfl"/> and [[Joe Guyon]],<ref name="dfnfl"/> former Tech head football coaches [[Pepper Rodgers]] and [[Bill Fulcher]],<ref name="dfnfl"/><ref name="honors"/> and recent students such as [[Calvin Johnson (American football)|Calvin Johnson]] and [[Tashard Choice]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/johnson_calvin00.html|title=Player Bio: Calvin Johnson|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-03-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/choice_tashard00.html|title=Player Bio: Tashard Choice|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-04-09}}</ref> Some of Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include [[Chris Bosh]], [[Javaris Crittenton]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/crittenton_javaris00.html|title=Player Bio: Javaris Crittenton|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-03-13}}</ref> [[Thaddeus Young]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/young_thaddeus00.html|title=Player Bio: Thaddeus Young|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-03-13}}</ref> [[Jarrett Jack]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/playerfile/jarrett_jack/bio.html|title=Jarrett Jack Info Page|publisher=NBA.com|accessdate=2007-03-10}}</ref> and [[Luke Schenscher]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/schenscher_luke00.html|title=Player Bio: Luke Schenscher|work=RamblinWreck.com|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]|accessdate=2007-03-10}}</ref> Award-winning baseball stars include [[Kevin Brown (right-handed pitcher)|Kevin Brown]],<ref name="brl"/> [[Mark Teixeira]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://alt.gtalumni.org/news/ttopics/fall05/jackets.html#article1|title=Rapid Success|work=Tech Topics|publisher=[[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]]|year=2005|accessdate=2007-03-05}}</ref> [[Nomar Garciaparra]],<ref name="brl"/> and [[Jason Varitek]].<ref name="beem">{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/beesball/alltime.html|title=Alumni In The Majors|publisher=beesball.com|accessdate=2007-03-14|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060421054231/http://geocities.com/beesball/alltime.html|archivedate=2006-04-21}}</ref> In golf, Tech alumni include the legendary [[Bobby Jones (golfer)|Bobby Jones]], who founded [[Masters Tournament|The Masters]], and [[David Duval]], who was ranked the No. 1 golfer in the world in 1999.<ref name="gthof">{{cite web| url=http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/ot/fame/halloffame.html| title=Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame| work=RamblinWreck.com| publisher=[[Georgia Tech Athletic Association]]| accessdate=2007-03-04}}</ref> |
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* {{cite book | last = Brittain | first = Marion L. | authorlink = Marion L. Brittain | title = The Story of Georgia Tech | publisher = [[University of North Carolina Press]] | year = 1948 | location = Chapel Hill, NC | url = http://www.archive.org/details/storyofgeorgiate008533mbp}} |
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Former names | Georgia School of Technology |
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Motto | Progress and Service |
Type | Public, Space grant |
Established | October 13, 1885[1] |
Endowment | $1.438 billion (2010 Foundation Assets)[2] |
President | George P. "Bud" Peterson[3][4] |
Provost | Rafael L. Bras[5] |
Dean | John Stein[6] |
Academic staff | 4,875 academic and research (Fall 2009)[7] |
Students | 20,487 (Fall 2010)[8] |
Undergraduates | 13,672 (Fall 2010)[8] |
Postgraduates | 6,815 (Fall 2010)[8] |
Location | , , United States 33°46′33″N 84°23′41″W / 33.77583°N 84.39472°W |
Campus | Urban, 400 acres (1.61 km²; 161 ha) |
Athletics | NCAA Division I. Eight men's varsity teams, seven women's. |
Colors | White Gold |
Nickname | Yellow Jackets |
Mascot | Buzz, Ramblin' Wreck |
Website | www.gatech.edu |
File:GeorgiaTech logo.png |
The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly called Georgia Tech, Tech, and GT) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shanghai, China; and Singapore.
The educational institution was founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States. Initially, it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. By 1901, its curriculum had expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineering. In 1948, the school changed its name to reflect its evolution from a trade school to a larger and more capable technical institute and research university. Today, Georgia Tech is organized into six colleges and contains about 31 departments/units, with a strong emphasis on science and technology. It is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, management, the sciences, architecture, and liberal arts. Tech is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 public universities in the nation and is a member of the highly prestigious Association of American Universities.
Georgia Tech's main campus occupies a large part of Midtown Atlanta, bordered by 10th Street to the north and by North Avenue to the south, placing it well in sight of the Atlanta skyline. In 1996, the campus was the site of the athletes' village and a venue for a number of athletic events for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The construction of the Olympic village, along with subsequent gentrification of the surrounding areas greatly enhanced the campus.
Student athletics, both organized and intramural, are an important part of student and alumni life. The school's intercollegiate competitive sports teams, the four-time football national champion Yellow Jackets, and the nationally recognized fight song "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech", have helped keep Georgia Tech in the national spotlight. Georgia Tech fields eight men's and seven women's teams that compete in the NCAA Division I athletics and the Football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
History
Establishment
![About a dozen one- and two-story buildings, several of which are damaged, line a dirt road that intersects with three railroad tracks in the foreground](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/AtlantaDuringCivilWar.jpg)
The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia after the Civil War, strongly believed that the South needed to improve its technology to compete with the industrial revolution that was occurring throughout the North.[9][10] However, because the American South of that era was mainly populated by agricultural workers and few technical developments were occurring, a technology school was needed.[9][10]
In 1882, the Georgia State Legislature authorized a committee, led by Harris, to visit the Northeast to see firsthand how technology schools worked. They were impressed by educational models developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science (now Worcester Polytechnic Institute). The committee recommended adapting the Worcester model, which stressed a combination of "theory and practice", the "practice" component including student employment and production of consumer items to generate revenue for the school.[11]
On October 13, 1885, Georgia Governor Henry D. McDaniel signed the bill to create and fund the new school.[1] In 1887, Atlanta pioneer Richard Peters donated 4 acres (1.6 ha) of his extensive land holdings to the state; this land was bounded on the south by North Avenue, and on the west by Cherry Street.[1] He then sold five adjoining acres of land to the state for US$10,000, equivalent to about US$Error when using {{Inflation}}: |end_year=2,024
(parameter 4) is greater than the latest available year (2,023) in index "US". now.[1] This land was located near the northern city limits of Atlanta at the time of its founding, although the city has now expanded several miles beyond it. A historical marker on the large hill in Central Campus notes that the site occupied by the school's first buildings once held fortifications built to protect Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. The surrender of the city took place on the southwestern boundary of the modern Georgia Tech campus in 1864.[12]
Early years
![Two buildings stand side-by-side on a hill. The one on the left is two stories, with two smokestacks behind it. The one on the right is the larger, taller Tech Tower building.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Tech_Tower_and_Shop_1899.jpg/300px-Tech_Tower_and_Shop_1899.jpg)
The Georgia School of Technology opened its doors in the fall of 1888 with two buildings.[9] One building (now Tech Tower, an administrative headquarters) had classrooms to teach students; The second building featured a shop and had a foundry, forge, boiler room, and engine room. It was designed specifically for students to work and produce goods to sell and fund the school. The two buildings were equal in size to show the importance of teaching both the mind and the hands; though, at the time, there was some disagreement to whether the machine shop should have been used to turn a profit.[9][11]
On October 20, 1905, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Georgia Tech campus. On the steps of Tech Tower, Roosevelt delivered a speech about the importance of technological education.[13] He then shook hands with every student.[14]
Georgia Tech's Evening School of Commerce began holding classes in 1912.[15] The evening school admitted its first female student in 1917, although the state legislature did not officially authorize attendance by women until 1920.[15][16] Annie T. Wise became the first female graduate in 1919 and went on to become Georgia Tech's first female faculty member the following year.[15][16] In 1931, the Board of Regents transferred control of the Evening School of Commerce to the University of Georgia (UGA) and moved the civil and electrical engineering courses at UGA to Tech.[15][16] Tech replaced the commerce school with what later became the College of Management. The commerce school would later split from UGA and eventually become Georgia State University.[15][17] In 1934, the Engineering Experiment Station (later known as the Georgia Tech Research Institute) was founded by W. Harry Vaughan with an initial budget of $5,000 ($Error when using {{Inflation}}: |end_year=2,024
(parameter 4) is greater than the latest available year (2,023) in index "US". today) and 13 part-time faculty.[18][19]
Modern history
Founded as the Georgia School of Technology, Georgia Tech assumed its present name in 1948 to reflect a growing focus on advanced technological and scientific research.[20] Unlike most similarly named universities (such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology), the Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution.
![A white-haired and white-bearded man gesturing with his right hand as he speaks](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Wayne_Clough.jpg/220px-Wayne_Clough.jpg)
Tech first admitted female students to regular classes in 1952, although women could not enroll in all programs at Tech until 1968.[21] Industrial Management was the last program to open to women.[15][21] The first women's dorm, Fulmer Hall, opened in 1969.[15] Women constituted 30.3% of the undergraduates and 25.3% of the graduate students enrolled in Spring 2009.[22] In 1959, a meeting of 2,741 students voted by an overwhelming majority to endorse integration of qualified applicants, regardless of race.[23] Three years after the meeting, and one year after the University of Georgia's violent integration, Georgia Tech became the first university in the Deep South to desegregate without a court order.[23][24] There was little reaction to this by Tech students; like the city of Atlanta described by former Mayor William Hartsfield, they seemed "too busy to hate".[23] Similarly, there was little student reaction to the Vietnam War and United States involvement in the Cambodian Civil War. The student council defeated a resolution supporting the Vietnam Moratorium, and the extent of the Tech community's response to the Kent State shooting was limited to a student-organized memorial service, though the Institute was ordered closed for two days, along with all other University System of Georgia schools.[18]
In 1988, President John Patrick Crecine pushed through a restructuring of the university. The Institute at that point had three colleges: the College of Engineering, the College of Management, and the catch-all COSALS, the College of Sciences and Liberal Arts. Crecine reorganized the latter two into the College of Computing, the College of Sciences, and the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy, and International Affairs.[25][26] Crecine never asked for input regarding the changes and, consequently, many faculty members disliked his top-down management style; despite this, the changes passed by a slim margin.[25] Crecine was also instrumental in securing the 1996 Summer Olympics for Atlanta. A large amount of construction occurred, creating most of what is now considered "West Campus" for Tech to serve as the Olympic Village, and significantly gentrifying Midtown Atlanta.[27][28] The Undergraduate Living Center, Fourth Street Apartments, Sixth Street Apartments, Eighth Street Apartments, Hemphill Apartments, and Center Street Apartments housed athletes and journalists. The Georgia Tech Aquatic Center was built for swimming events, and the Alexander Memorial Coliseum was renovated.[15][28] The Institute also erected the Kessler Campanile and fountain to serve as a landmark and symbol of the Institute on television broadcasts.[15] Since then, the Campanile has come to be known by students as "The Shaft".[29]
In 1994, G. Wayne Clough became the first Tech alumnus to serve as the president of the Institute; he was in office during the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 1998, he separated the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy, and International Affairs into the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and returned the College of Management to "College" status (Crecine, the previous president, had demoted Management from "College" to "School" status as part of a controversial 1990 reorganization plan).[25][26] His tenure focused on a dramatic expansion of the Institute, a revamped Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the creation of an International Plan.[30][31][32] On March 15, 2008, he was appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, effective July 1, 2008.[33] Dr. Gary Schuster, Tech's provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, was named interim president, effective July 1, 2008.[34] On April 1, 2009, G. P. "Bud" Peterson, previously the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, became the 11th president of Georgia Tech.[4] On April 20, 2010, Georgia Tech was invited to join the Association of American Universities, the first new member institution in nine years.[35]
Academics
Demographics
Undergraduate[36] | Graduate[37] | |
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White | 62.8% | 48.2% |
Asian | 21.8% | 39.5% |
Hispanic/Latino | 5.4% | 4.4% |
Black/African American | 6.5% | 5.4% |
Native American | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Multiracial/Other | 3.3% | 2.4% |
International | 6.6% | 42.3% |
The student body consists of more than 20,000 graduate and undergraduate students (Fall 2010) and almost 1,000 full-time academic faculty (Fall 2009).[8][38][39] As is historically true of engineering institutions, female enrollment at Georgia Tech is low. However, this is slowly changing due to the university's growing liberal arts programs and outreach programs to encourage more female high school students to consider careers in science and engineering. These include the "Women In Engineering" program and sponsorship of a chapter of The Society of Women Engineers.[40][41] As of Spring 2009[update], the freshman class had a ratio of 67.4% to 32.2%.[42]
50-55% of all Georgia Tech students are residents of the state of Georgia, around 20% come from overseas, and 25-30% are residents of other U.S. states or territories. The top states of origin for all non-Georgia US students are Florida, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, New York, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and California.[43] Students at Tech represent 111 countries and all 50 states.[8] 30% of the Fall 2010 incoming Freshman class come from other states and 9% come from overseas. 24% come from Asian backgrounds, 5% are African American, 7% are Hispanic, and 3% are multi-racial. For the fall of 2010, close to 36% of incoming freshmen are female students.[44]
Funding
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution that receives funds from the State of Georgia, tuition, fees, research grants, and alumni contributions. In 2010, the Institute's revenue amounted to about $1.159 billion. 19% came from state appropriations and grants while 15% originated from tuition and fees. Grants and contracts accounted for 49% of all revenue. Expenditures were about $1.094 billion. 45% went to research and 20% went to instruction.[45] The Georgia Tech Foundation runs the university's endowment and was incorporated in 1932. It includes several wholly owned subsidiaries that own land on campus or in Midtown and lease the land back to the Georgia Board of Regents and other companies and organizations. Assets totaled $1.438 billion and liabilities totaled $0.438 billion in 2010. Assets are down from a high of $1.646 billion in 2008.[2] Georgia Tech has the most generous alumni donor base, percentage wise, of any public university ranked in the top 50.[46]
Rankings
Academic rankings | |
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U.S. News & World Report[47] | 35 |
Washington Monthly[48] | 38 |
Global | |
ARWU[49] | 51-100 |
THE[50] | 27 |
Georgia Tech is consistently ranked among the best universities in the United States and the world. For over a decade, Georgia Tech has remained in the top ten public universities in the United States.[51] In 2008-2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked Tech as the No. 7 public university, and No. 35 among all universities.[51] In 2010, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Georgia Tech 19th in the United States, 27th in the world, 10th in Engineering & IT, 20th in North America, and 5th among public universities.[52] Tech has the No. 4 undergraduate engineering program, and the No. 4 graduate engineering program.[51] All of Tech's undergraduate engineering programs are among the Top 10 in their field including its Schools of Industrial Engineering (1st), Aerospace (2nd), Biomedical (3rd), Mechanical (3rd), Civil (3rd), Electrical (5th), Environmental (5th), Computer (6th), Materials (9th), and Chemical (9th),[51][53] and Industrial Engineering (1st), Biomedical (2nd), and Aerospace (2nd) at the graduate level.[54] In 2010, Georgia Tech’s College of Management rose from 31st the previous year to 28th, continuing its rapid upward trend [55] Diverse Issues in Higher Education has ranked Tech No. 1 at the bachelor's level, No. 2 at the master's level, and No. 1 at the doctoral level in terms of producing African American engineering graduates.[39] In 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked Tech as the No. 26 "MBA" program.[56] Tech also boasts the No. 30 Physics program in the nation, specializing in Nonlinear Dynamics (in which it ranks 5th nationwide) and Condensed Matter Physics.[57][58] U.S. News & World Report ranked the graduate chemistry program at No. 26 overall with the Physical Chemistry specialty ranked at No. 14.[59] The Math department is ranked at No. 30 overall and at No. 8 in Discrete Math and Combinatorics.[60]
Colleges
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Georgia Tech's undergraduate and graduate programs are divided into six colleges. Collaboration among the colleges is frequent, as mandated by a number of interdisciplinary degree programs and research centers.[61] Georgia Tech has sought to strengthen its undergraduate and graduate offerings in less technical fields, primarily those under the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. That particular College has seen a 20% increase in admissions.[62] Also, even in the Ivan Allen College, the Institute does not offer a Bachelor of Arts degree, only a Bachelor of Science.
Research
![A circular, six-story brick building with decorative white concrete stripes above and below lines of adjacent square windows that encircle most of each level](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Centennial_Research_Building.jpg/220px-Centennial_Research_Building.jpg)
Georgia Tech is classified by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a university with very high research activity.[63] Much of this research is funded by large corporations or governmental organizations.[64] In addition to research performed by its academic units, Georgia Tech is affiliated with a nonprofit research organization referred to as the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).[65][66] GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar, electro-optics, and materials engineering.[65] Around forty percent (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research, especially government-funded classified work, is conducted through this counterpart organization.[66][67] GTRI employs over 1,500 people and had $205 million in revenue in fiscal year 2010.[68]
Many startup companies are produced through research conducted at Georgia Tech, with the Advanced Technology Development Center and VentureLab ready to assist Georgia Tech's researchers and entrepreneurs in organization and commercialization. The Georgia Tech Research Corporation serves as Georgia Tech's contract and technology licensing agency. Georgia Tech is ranked fourth for startup companies, eighth in patents, and eleventh in technology transfer by the Milken Institute.[64][69] Georgia Tech and GTRI devote 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m2) of space to research purposes,[64] including the new $90 million Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center, one of the largest nanotechnology research facilities in the Southeastern United States with over 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of clean room space.[70][71][72]
Georgia Tech encourages undergraduates to participate in research alongside graduate students and faculty. The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program awards scholarships each semester to undergraduates who pursue research activities. These scholarships, called the President's Undergraduate Research Awards, take the form of student salaries or help cover travel expenses when students present their work at professional meetings.[73] Additionally, undergraduates may participate in research and write a thesis to earn a "Research Option" credit on their transcripts.[74] An undergraduate research journal, The Tower, was established in 2007 to provide undergraduates with a venue for disseminating their research and a chance to become familiar with the academic publishing process.[75]
Industry connections
Georgia Tech maintains close ties to the industrial world. Many of these connections are made through Georgia Tech's cooperative education and internship programs. Georgia Tech's Division of Professional Practice (DoPP), established in 1912 as the Georgia Institute of Technology Cooperative Division,[76] operates the largest and fourth-oldest cooperative education program in the United States, and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education.[77][78][79] The DoPP is charged with providing opportunities for students to gain real-world employment experience through four programs, each targeting a different body of students. The Undergraduate Cooperative Education Program is a five-year program in which undergraduate students alternate between semesters of formal instruction at Georgia Tech and semesters of full-time employment with their employers.
The Graduate Cooperative Education Program, established in 1983, is the largest such program in the United States.[80] It allows graduate students pursuing master's degrees or doctorates in any field to spend a maximum of two consecutive semesters working full- or part-time with employers. The Undergraduate Professional Internship Program enables undergraduate students—typically juniors or seniors—to complete a one- or two-semester internship with employers. The Work Abroad Program hosts a variety of cooperative education and internship experiences for upperclassmen and graduate students seeking international employment and cross-cultural experiences. While all four programs are voluntary, they consistently attract high numbers of students—more than 3,000 at last count. Around 1,000 businesses and organizations hire these students, who collectively earn $20 million per year.[79]
Georgia Tech's cooperative education and internship programs have been externally recognized for their strengths. The Undergraduate Cooperative Education was recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top 10 "Programs that Really Work" for five consecutive years.[81] U.S. News & World Report additionally ranked Georgia Tech's internship and cooperative education programs among 14 "Academic Programs to Look For" in 2006 and 2007.[46] On June 4, 2007, the University of Cincinnati inducted Georgia Tech into its Cooperative Education Hall of Honor.[82][83]
Student life
Georgia Tech students benefit from many Institute-sponsored or -related events on campus, as well as a wide selection of cultural options in the surrounding district of Midtown Atlanta, "Atlanta's Heart of the Arts".[84] Just off campus, students can choose from a host of restaurant and dining choices typical of metropolitan areas, including a half-dozen in Technology Square alone.[85][86] Home Park, a neighborhood that borders the north end of campus, is a popular living area for Tech students and recent graduates.[87][88]
Traditions
![Large, white, capital letters spelling "TECH" situated just below the pointed roof of the square, red brick tower of the administration building](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/TechTowerSign.jpg/250px-TechTowerSign.jpg)
Tech has a number of legends and traditions, some of which have persisted for decades. Some are well-known; for example, the most notable of these is the popular but rare tradition of stealing the 'T' from Tech Tower. Tech Tower, Tech's historic primary administrative building, has the letters "TECH" hanging atop it on each of its four sides. There have been several attempts by students to orchestrate complex plans to steal the huge symbolic letter T, and on occasion they have carried this act out successfully. The latest instance of this tradition occurred in October 2005, when a replica of the T was stolen from the Student Services Building and returned two days later.[89] One of the cherished holdovers from Tech's early years, a steam whistle blows five minutes before the hour, every hour from 7:55 a.m. to 5:55 p.m.[90] The faculty newspaper is named The Whistle because of the whistle's cultural significance to the school.[29]
Georgia Tech holds a heated, long and ongoing rivalry with the University of Georgia, known as Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. The first known hostilities between the two institutions trace back to 1891. The University of Georgia's literary magazine proclaimed UGA's colors to be "old gold, black, and crimson". Dr. Charles H. Herty, the first UGA football coach, felt that old gold was too similar to yellow and that it "symbolized cowardice". After the 1893 football game against Tech, Herty removed old gold as an official color.[91][92] Tech would first use old gold for their uniforms, as a proverbial slap in the face to UGA, in their first unofficial football game against Auburn in 1891.[93] Georgia Tech's school colors would henceforth be old gold and white.
Housing
![A red brick and white concrete, four-story apartment building with a landscaped courtyard in the foreground](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Gatech8th.png/220px-Gatech8th.png)
Georgia Tech Housing is subject to a clear geographic division of campus into eastern and western areas that contain the vast majority of housing. East Campus is largely populated by freshmen and is served by Brittain Dining Hall. West Campus houses some freshmen, transfer, and returning students (upperclassmen), and is served by Woodruff Dining Hall.[94][95] Graduate students typically live off-campus (for example, in Home Park) or on-campus in the Graduate Living Center or 10th and Home.[96]
The Institute's administration has implemented programs to reduce the levels of stress and anxiety felt by Tech students. The Familiarization and Adaptation to the Surroundings and Environs of Tech (FASET) Orientation and Freshman Experience (a freshman-only dorm life program to "encourage friendships and a feeling of social involvement") programs, which seek to help acclimate new students to their surroundings and foster a greater sense of community.[97][98] As a result, the Institute's retention rates have improved.[99]
In recent years, Georgia Tech Housing has been at or over capacity.[100] In Fall 2006, many dorms housed "triples", which was a project that put three residents into a two-person room. Certain pieces of furniture were not provided to the third resident as to accommodate a third bed. When spaces became available in other parts of campus, the third resident was moved elsewhere.[101][102][103][104] Today Georgia Tech provides housing for 8,347 students, and housing is currently 99% occupied.[7]
In the fall of 2007, the North Avenue Apartments were opened to Tech students. Originally built for the 1996 Olympics and belonging to Georgia State University, the buildings were gifted to Georgia Tech and have been used to accommodate Tech's expanding population. Georgia Tech freshmen students were the first to inhabit the dormitories in the Winter and Spring 1996 quarters, while much of East Campus was under renovation for the Olympics. The North Avenue Apartments (commonly known as "North Ave") are also noted as the first Georgia Tech buildings to rise above the top of Tech Tower. Open to second-year undergraduate students and above, the buildings are located on East Campus, across North Avenue and near Bobby Dodd Stadium, putting more upperclassmen on East Campus.[105] Currently, the North Avenue Apartments East and North buildings are undergoing extensive renovation to the façade. During their construction, the bricks were not properly secured and thus were a safety hazard to pedestrians and vehicles on the Downtown Connector below.[106]
Two programs on campus as well have houses on East Campus: the International House (commonly referred to as the I-House); and Women, Science, and Technology. The I-House is housed in 4th Street East and Hayes. Women, Science, and Technology is housed in Goldin and Stein. The I-House hosts an International Coffee Hour every Monday night that class is in session from 6 to 7 pm, hosting both residents and their guests for discussions.[107]
Student clubs and activities
Several extracurricular activities are available to students, including over 350 student organizations overseen by the Office of Student Involvement.[108] The Student Government Association (SGA), Georgia Tech's student government, has separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches for undergraduate and graduate students.[109] One of the SGA's primary duties is the disbursement of funds to student organizations in need of financial assistance. These funds are derived from the Student Activity Fee that all Georgia Tech students must pay, currently $123 per semester. The ANAK Society, a secret society and honor society established at Georgia Tech in 1908, claims responsibility for founding many of Georgia Tech's earliest traditions and oldest student organizations, including the SGA.[110]
Arts
Georgia Tech's Music Department was established as part of the school's General College in 1963 under the leadership of Ben Logan Sisk. In 1976, the Music Department was assigned to the College of Sciences & Liberal Studies, and in 1991 it was relocated to its current home in the College of Architecture. In 2009, it was reorganized into the School of Music.[111] The Georgia Tech Glee Club, founded in 1906, is one of the oldest student organizations on campus, and still operates today as part of the School of Music.[112][113] The Glee Club was among the first collegiate choral groups to release a recording of their songs. The group has toured extensively and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show twice, providing worldwide exposure to "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech".[114][115] Today, the modern Glee Club performs dozens of times each semester for many different events, including official Georgia Tech ceremonies, banquets, and sporting events. It consists of 50 to 70 members and requires no audition or previous choral experience.[116]
![A football stadium with a marching band in white uniforms on the field, with the goal post in the foreground and various buildings in the background](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Bobby_Dodd_Stadium_interior.jpg/220px-Bobby_Dodd_Stadium_interior.jpg)
The Georgia Tech Band Program, also in the School of Music, represents Georgia Tech at athletic events and provides Tech students with a musical outlet.[117] It was founded in 1908 by 14 students and Robert "Biddy" Bidez.[113] The marching band consistently fields over 300 members and invites students from other Atlanta universities who do not have football programs (Emory, Agnes Scott, Kennesaw State, etc.) to participate. Members of the marching band travel to every football game.
The School of Music is also home to a number of successful and flourishing ensembles, such as the 80-to-90-member Symphony Orchestra,[118] Jazz Ensemble,[119] Concert Band,[120] and Percussion and MIDI Ensembles.[113][121] Students also can opt to form their own small Chamber Ensembles, either for course credit or independently.[122] The contemporary Sonic Generator group, backed by the GVU and in collaboration with the Center for Music Technology, performs a diverse lineup of music featuring new technologies and recent composers.[123]
Georgia Tech also has a music scene that is made up of groups that operate independently from the Music Department. These groups include three student-led a cappella groups: Nothin' but Treble,[124] Sympathetic Vibrations,[125] and Infinite Harmony.[126] Musician's Network, another student-led group, operates Under the Couch, a live music venue and recording facility that was formerly located beneath the Couch Building on West Campus and is now located in the Student Center.[127][128]
Many music, theatre, dance, and opera performances are held in the Ferst Center for the Arts.[129] DramaTech is the campus' student-run theater. The theater has been entertaining Georgia Tech and the surrounding community since 1947. They are also home to Let's Try This! (the campus improv troupe) and VarietyTech (a song and dance troupe). Momocon is an annual anime/gaming/comics convention held on campus in March hosted by Anime O-Tekku, the Georgia Tech anime club. The convention has free admission and was held in the Student Center, Instructional Center, and surrounding outdoor areas until 2010.[130] Beginning in 2011, the convention moved its venue to locations in Technology Square.[131]
Student media
![A newspaper front page with the headline, "Georgia--Our Annual Triumph", an image of a football player, and four columns of text](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/1911_Technique.jpg/220px-1911_Technique.jpg)
WREK, 91.1 MHz is known as "Wreck Radio". The studio is on the second floor of the Student Center Commons. Broadcasting with 40 kW ERP and recently approved for an increase to 100 kW, WREK is among the nation's most powerful college radio stations.[132][133] WREK is a student operated and run radio station. In April 2007, a debate was held regarding the future of the radio station. The prospective purchasers were GPB and NPR. WREK maintained its independence after dismissing the notion with approval from the Radio Communications Board of Georgia Tech.[134][135][136]
The Technique, also known as the "'Nique", is Tech's official student newspaper. It is distributed weekly during the Fall and Spring semesters (on Fridays), and biweekly during the Summer semester (with certain exceptions). It was established on November 17, 1911. Blueprint is Tech's yearbook, established in 1908.[137] Other student publications include The North Avenue Review, Tech's "free-speech magazine",[138][139] Erato, Tech's literary magazine,[140] The Tower, Tech's undergraduate research journal[141] and T-Book, the student handbook detailing Tech traditions.[142] The offices of all student publications are located in the Student Services Building.[137][143]
Greek life
Greek life at Georgia Tech includes 48 active chapters of social fraternities and sororities.[144][145] All of the groups are chapters of national organizations, including members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference, National Panhellenic Conference, and National Pan-Hellenic Council. The first Greek letter fraternities to establish chapters at the Institute were Alpha Tau Omega in 1888, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in 1890, and Kappa Sigma in 1895. The first sorority to establish a chapter was Alpha Xi Delta in 1954.[144] Students with Greek affiliation make up around 21 percent of the undergraduate student body.[146]
Student stress
Georgia Tech carries a strong reputation for being stressful. In 2001, The Princeton Review placed Tech among the 10 toughest colleges and universities in the United States[147] and later reported that Tech's heavy workload led to "overly stressed" students with "minimal time for social functions".[148] In 2002, the Review ranked Tech No. 2 on its list of colleges and universities with the "least happy students",[149] prompting Institute officials to publish a report the following year responding to the negative publicity. The report criticized the Review for the lack of scientific rigor in its methods and referred to data from internal opinion surveys demonstrating increased student satisfaction in several areas.[150] In 2010, The Daily Beast included Tech on its list of the 50 most stressful colleges and universities in the U.S.[151] However, in 2010, the Daily Beast also listed Tech among the 100 happiest colleges indicating that student stress does not necessarily prevent student happiness.[152] Among students, it is widely believed that a sacrifice of sleep, studying, or a social life defines "the Tech lifestyle".[153] For these reasons, students commonly refer to graduation from Tech as "getting out".[29]
Campuses
The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown, an area north of downtown Atlanta. Although a number of skyscrapers—most visibly the headquarters of AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, and Bank of America—are visible from all points on campus, the campus itself has few buildings over four stories and has a great deal of greenery. This gives it a distinctly suburban atmosphere quite different from other Atlanta campuses such as that of Georgia State University.[154][155]
The campus is organized into four main parts: West Campus, East Campus, Central Campus, and Technology Square. West Campus and East Campus are both occupied primarily by student living complexes, while Central Campus is reserved primarily for teaching and research buildings.[154]
West Campus
![A large, white, multi-story building constructed from concrete, metal and glass with several tiered, curved roof segments framing long panels of windows. The building is set back on a large green lawn with several small pine trees.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Georgia_Tech_CRC_Front.jpg/220px-Georgia_Tech_CRC_Front.jpg)
West Campus is occupied primarily by apartments and coed undergraduate dormitories. Apartments include Crecine, Center Street, 6th Street, Maulding, Undergraduate Living Center (ULC), and Eighth Street Apartments, while dorms include Freeman, Montag, Fitten, Folk, Caldwell, Armstrong, Hefner, Fulmer, and Woodruff Suites.[154] The Campus Recreation Center (formerly the Student Athletic Complex); a volleyball court; a large, low natural green area known as the Burger Bowl; and a flat artificial green area known as the CRC (formerly SAC) Fields are all located on the western side of the campus.
West Campus was formerly home to Under the Couch, which relocated to the Student Center in the fall of 2010. Also within walking distance of West Campus are several late-night eateries and Engineer's Bookstore, an alternative to Georgia Tech's official bookstore.[156] West campus is home to a convenience store, West Side Market. Due to limited space, all auto travel proceeds via a network of one-way streets which connects West Campus to Ferst Drive, the main road of the campus. Woodruff Dining Hall, or "Woody's", is the West Campus Dining Hall.[94] It connects the Woodruff North and Woodruff South undergraduate dorms.
East Campus
East Campus houses all of the fraternities and sororities as well as most of the undergraduate freshman dormitories. Although the residences are similar, East Campus is more urban than West Campus. East Campus abuts the Downtown Connector, granting residences quick access to Midtown and its businesses (for example, The Varsity) via a number of bridges over the highway as well as a tunnel beneath it. Georgia Tech football's home, Bobby Dodd Stadium is located on East Campus, as well as Georgia Tech basketball's home Alexander Memorial Coliseum.[154]
Brittain Dining Hall is the main dining hall for East Campus. It is modeled after a medieval church, complete with carved columns and stained glass windows showing symbolic figures.[94] The main road leading from East Campus to Central Campus is an ascending incline commonly known as "Freshman Hill" (in reference to the large number of freshman dorms near its foot) or simply "The Hill". On March 8, 2007, the former Georgia State University Village apartments were transferred to Georgia Tech. Renamed North Avenue Apartments by the institute, they began housing students in the fall semester of 2007.[105]
Central Campus
Central Campus is home to the majority of the academic, research, and administrative buildings. The Central Campus includes, among others: the Howey Physics Building; the Boggs Chemistry Building; the College of Computing Building; the Klaus Advanced Computing Building; the College of Architecture Building; the Skiles Classroom Building, which houses the School of Mathematics and the School of Literature, Communication and Culture; the D. M. Smith Building, which houses the School of Public Policy; and the Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building.[154] In 2005, the School of Modern Languages returned to the Swann Building, a 100-year-old former dormitory that now houses some of the most technology-equipped classrooms on campus.[157][158] Intermingled with these are a variety of research facilities, such as the Centennial Research Building, the Microelectronics Research Center, the Neely Nuclear Research Center, the Nanotechnology Research Center, and the Petit Biotechnology Building.
![A one-story brick building with grey concrete stairs in the center leading to a door with a column on either side of it. There are three long windows on each side of the building.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Carnegie_Building_6272.jpg/220px-Carnegie_Building_6272.jpg)
Tech's administrative buildings, such as Tech Tower, and the Bursar's Office, are also located on the Central Campus, in the recently renovated Georgia Tech Historic District.[159][160] The campus library, plus a small traditional eatery called Junior's Grill, the Fred B. Wenn Student Center, and the Student Services Building ("Flag Building") are also located on Central Campus. The Student Center provides a variety of recreational and social functions for students including: a computer lab, a game room ("Tech Rec"),[161] the Student Post Office, a music venue, a movie theater, the Food Court, plus meeting rooms for various clubs and organizations. Adjacent to the eastern entrance of the Student Center is the Kessler Campanile (which is referred to by students as "The Shaft").[29] The former Hightower Textile Engineering building was demolished in 2002 to create Yellow Jacket Park. More greenspace now occupies the area around the Kessler Campanile for a more aesthetically pleasing look, in accordance with the official Campus Master Plan.[162] In 2008, construction began on the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, which will be located next to the library and occupy at least part of the Yellow Jacket Park area.[163]
Technology Square
![Illuminated buildings line a wide one-way city street at night](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Atltechsquare2.jpg/220px-Atltechsquare2.jpg)
Technology Square, also known as "Tech Square", is located across the Downtown Connector and embedded in the city east of East Campus.[164] Opened in August 2003 at a cost of $179 million, the district was built over run-down neighborhoods and has sparked a revitalization of the entire Midtown area.[165][166][167] Connected by the recently renovated Fifth Street Bridge, it is a pedestrian-friendly area comprising Georgia Tech facilities and retail locations.[165][168] One complex contains the College of Management Building, holding classrooms and office space for the College of Management, as well as the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center and the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.[169] Another part of Tech Square, the privately owned Centergy One complex, contains the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB), holding faculty and graduate student offices for the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the GVU Center, a multidisciplinary technology research center.[165]
Other Georgia Tech-affiliated buildings in the area host the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, the Advanced Technology Development Center, VentureLab, and the Georgia Electronics Design Center. Technology Square also hosts a variety of restaurants and businesses, including the headquarters of notable consulting companies like Accenture and also including the official Institute bookstore, a Barnes & Noble bookstore, and a Georgia Tech-themed Waffle House.[166][170]
Satellite campuses
In 1999, Georgia Tech began offering local degree programs to engineering students in Southeast Georgia, and in 2003 established a physical campus in Savannah, Georgia.[171] Georgia Tech Savannah offers undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, and boasts a robust research program with many activities centered on coastal concerns. It is also home to the regional offices of the Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute and the Advanced Technology Development Center.[172] The Georgia Tech Savannah campus offers engineering programs in conjunction with Georgia Southern University, South Georgia College, Armstrong Atlantic State University, and Savannah State University.[173] The university further collaborated with the National University of Singapore to set up The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific in Singapore.[173]
![A white concrete and glass, curved-front building with a driveway separated by a median leading to it](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/GT_Lorraine.jpg/220px-GT_Lorraine.jpg)
Georgia Tech also operates a campus in Metz, in northeastern France, known as Georgia Tech Lorraine. Opened in October 1990, it offers master's-level courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. coursework in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.[174] Georgia Tech Lorraine is known for a much-publicized lawsuit pertaining to the language used in advertisements; see Toubon Law.[175][176]
The College of Architecture maintains a small permanent presence in Paris, France in affiliation with the École d'architecture de Paris-La Villette and the College of Computing has a similar program with the Barcelona School of Informatics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. There are additional programs in Athlone, Ireland, Shanghai, China, and Singapore.[177][178] Georgia Tech will set up two campuses for research and graduate education in the cities of Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India by the year 2010.[179][180][181][182]
Campus services
Georgia Tech Cable Network, or GTCN, is the college's branded cable source. The station broadcasts WREK-FM on channel 17, in addition to student-generated content and recent movies on channels 20 and 21. Most non-original programming is obtained from Dish Network. GTCN currently has 100 standard-definition channels and 23 high-definition channels.[183]
The Office of Information Technology, or OIT, manages most of the Institute's computing resources (and some related services such as campus telephones). With the exception of a few computer labs maintained by individual colleges, OIT is responsible for most of the computing facilities on campus. Student, faculty, and staff e-mail accounts are among its services.[184] Georgia Tech's ResNet provides free technical support to all students and guests living in Georgia Tech's on-campus housing (excluding fraternities and sororities). ResNet is responsible for network, telephone, and television service, and most support is provided by part-time student employees.[185]
Crime
Minor crimes around Georgia Tech are commonplace, a reflection of the Institute's densely populated urban surroundings. The campus is patrolled by the Georgia Tech Police Department, whose Patrol Division comprises 60 officers.[186] The most common crime reported over the last few years, by a large margin, is larceny.[187] Between 2004 and 2006, there were only 32 violent crimes reported, most of them robberies.[187] Although the crime rate in Atlanta during the late 1980s and 1990s was the highest in the nation,[188] it has been declining since the late 1960s and the city now is the seventeenth most-dangerous city in the U.S.[189][190] The construction of large projects such as the Olympic Village and Technology Square have contributed to reduced crime rates by gentrifying the surrounding area.[27][165]
Athletics
![A person wearing a costume which resembles a yellowjacket, including a black shirt with yellow interlocking G-T logo, spins a dial on a wooden gymnasium floor.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/GeorgiaTechBuzz.jpg/220px-GeorgiaTechBuzz.jpg)
Georgia Tech's sports teams are variously called the Yellow Jackets, the Ramblin' Wreck, and the Engineers, but the official nickname is Yellow Jackets. They participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I within the Atlantic Coast Conference. The college was a charter member of the Southeastern Conference, and played in that league until 1964. The Institute mascots are Buzz and the Ramblin' Wreck. The Institute's traditional football rival is the University of Georgia; the rivalry was, at one time, considered one of the fiercest in college football. The rivalry is commonly referred to as Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate, which is also the title of a book about the subject.[191] Tech has seventeen varsity sports: football, women's and men's basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, golf, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's track and field, and men's and women's cross country. Four Georgia Tech football teams were selected as national champions in news polls: 1917, 1928, 1952, and 1990. In May 2007, the women's tennis team won the NCAA National Championship with a 4–2 victory over UCLA, the first ever national title granted by the NCAA to Tech.[192][193]
Fight songs
Tech's fight song "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" is known worldwide. First published in the 1908 Blue Print,[194] it was adapted from an old drinking song ("Son of a Gambolier")[194] and embellished with trumpet flourishes by Frank Roman.[195] Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1958 to reduce the tension between them.[194][196] As the story goes, Nixon did not know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American one as it had been sung on The Ed Sullivan Show.[194]
![Six women, wearing a uniform of a white skirt and a white and gold cropped top with the word "Tech" on the front, ride onto the football field on the running boards and rear seat of a white-and-gold-painted antique car.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Ramblinwreck.jpg/220px-Ramblinwreck.jpg)
"I'm a Ramblin' Wreck" has had many other notable moments in its history. It is reportedly the first school song to have been played in space.[197] Gregory Peck sang the song while strumming a ukulele in the movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. John Wayne whistled it in The High and the Mighty. Tim Holt's character sings a few bars of it in the movie His Kind of Woman. There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D-Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves.[197] It is played after every Georgia Tech score in a football game.[194]
Another popular fight song is "Up with the White and Gold", which is usually played by the band preceding "Ramblin' Wreck". First published in 1919, "Up with the White and Gold" was also written by Frank Roman. The song's title refers to Georgia Tech's school colors and its lyrics contain the phrase, "Down with the Red and Black", an explicit reference to the school colors of the University of Georgia and the then-budding Georgia Tech–UGA rivalry.[197][198]
Club sports
Georgia Tech participates in many non-NCAA sanctioned club sports, including crew, cricket, cycling (winning three consecutive Dirty South Collegiate Cycling Conference mountain bike championships), equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, kayaking, lacrosse, paintball, roller hockey, soccer, rugby union, sailing, skydiving, table tennis, triathlon, ultimate, water polo, water ski, and wrestling. Many club sports take place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, where swimming, diving, water polo, and the swimming portion of the modern pentathlon competitions for the 1996 Summer Olympics were held.[199]
Alumni
![Group photo of fifteen men; five in the top row, four in the middle, and six in the front, posing in front of a brick building](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/First_GT_Graduates_1890.jpg/220px-First_GT_Graduates_1890.jpg)
There are many notable graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech alumni are generally known as Yellow Jackets. According to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association:[200]
[the status of "alumni"] is open to all graduates of Georgia Tech, all former students of Georgia Tech who regularly matriculated and left Georgia Tech in good standing, active and retired members of the faculty and administration staff, and those who have rendered some special and conspicuous service to Georgia Tech or to [the alumni association].
The first class of 95 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888,[201] and the first two graduates received their degrees in 1890.[202] Since then, the institute has greatly expanded, with an enrollment of 13,672 undergraduates and 6,815 postgraduate students as of Fall 2010[update].[8]
Many distinguished individuals once called Georgia Tech home, the most notable being Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who briefly attended Georgia Tech in the early 1940s before matriculating at and graduating from the United States Naval Academy.[203] Another Georgia Tech graduate and Nobel Prize winner, Kary Mullis, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993.[204] A large number of businesspeople (including but not limited to prominent CEOs and directors) began their careers at Georgia Tech.[205][206] Some of the most successful of these are Charles "Garry" Betty (CEO Earthlink),[207] David Dorman (CEO AT&T Corporation),[206] Mike Duke (CEO Wal-Mart),[208] and James D. Robinson III (CEO American Express and later director of The Coca-Cola Company).[209]
Tech graduates have been deeply influential in politics, military service, and activism. Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. and former United States Senator Sam Nunn have both made significant changes from within their elected offices.[210][211] Former Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough was also a Tech graduate, the first Tech alumnus to serve in that position.[212] Many notable military commanders are alumni; William L. Ball was the 67th Secretary of the Navy,[213] John M. Brown III is the Commander of the United States Army Pacific Command,[214] and Leonard Wood was Chief of Staff of the Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for helping capture of the Apache chief Geronimo.[215] Wood was also Tech's first football coach and (simultaneously) the team captain, and was instrumental in Tech's first-ever football victory in a game against the University of Georgia.[215] Thomas McGuire was the second-highest scoring American ace during World War II and a Medal of Honor recipient.[216]
Numerous astronauts and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrators spent time at Tech; most notably, Retired Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly was the eighth administrator of NASA, and later served as the president of the Georgia Tech Research Institute.[217] John Young was the first commander of the space shuttle and is the only person to have piloted four different classes of spacecraft.[218] Georgia Tech has its fair share of noteworthy engineers, scientists, and inventors. Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis developed the polymerase chain reaction,[204] Herbert Saffir developed the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale,[219] and W. Jason Morgan made significant contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics.[220] In computer science, Krishna Bharat developed Google News,[221] and D. Richard Hipp developed SQLite.[222] Architect Michael Arad designed the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City.[223]
Despite their highly technical backgrounds, Tech graduates are no strangers to the arts or athletic competition. Among them, comedian/actor Jeff Foxworthy of Blue Collar Comedy Tour fame and Randolph Scott both called Tech home.[224][225] Several famous athletes have, as well; about 150 Tech students have gone into the National Football League (NFL),[226] with many others going into the National Basketball Association (NBA) or Major League Baseball (MLB).[227][228] Well-known American football athletes include all-time greats such as Joe Hamilton,[229] Pat Swilling,[230] Billy Shaw,[226] and Joe Guyon,[226] former Tech head football coaches Pepper Rodgers and Bill Fulcher,[226][230] and recent students such as Calvin Johnson and Tashard Choice.[231][232] Some of Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Chris Bosh, Javaris Crittenton,[233] Thaddeus Young,[234] Jarrett Jack,[235] and Luke Schenscher.[236] Award-winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown,[228] Mark Teixeira,[237] Nomar Garciaparra,[228] and Jason Varitek.[238] In golf, Tech alumni include the legendary Bobby Jones, who founded The Masters, and David Duval, who was ranked the No. 1 golfer in the world in 1999.[239]
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Further reading
- Brittain, Marion L. (1948). The Story of Georgia Tech. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
- Cromartie, Bill (2002) [1977]. Clean Old-fashioned Hate: Georgia Vs. Georgia Tech. Strode Publishers. ISBN 09-3252-064-2.
- McMath, Robert C. (1985). Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech 1885–1985. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 08-2030-784-X.
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