GSW, GPC partner for Honors

Program agreement

     
           Pictured Left to right: Dr. Jeffrey Portnoy, GPC Honors Program director; Dr. Elizabeth Gurnack, GSW Honors Program co-director; Dr. Brian Adler, GSW Vice President of Academic Affairs.

            Earlier this fall Georgia Perimeter College and Georgia Southwestern State University signed an articulation agreement allowing students in the Honors Program at Georgia Perimeter to be admitted seamlessly into Georgia Southwestern's Honors Program. Conditions for the agreement are listed below.

                    -- Students transferring to GSW having earned an Honors Program Certificate with
                        a cumulative GPA of 3.30 will be admitted to the GSW University Honors
                        Program upon recommendation by the GPC Honors Program Director.
                        Honors courses earned at GPC will satisfy the GSW Honors enrichments
                        in the core areas.

                    -- Students transferring to GSW having earned an Honors Program Diploma with
                        a cumulative GPA of 3.50 will be admitted to the GSW University Honors
                        Program upon recommendation by the GPC Honors Program Director.
                        The Honors courses earned at GPC will satisfy the GSW Honors enrichments
                        in the core areas as well as 2 of the 4 seminar courses. In essence, all
                        Honors requirements for the freshmen and sophomore years will be fulfilled. 

                    -- Students transferring to GSW having earned an Honors Program Diploma with
                        High Honors or Highest Honors may have, in addition to the benefits
                        described above, one of the two Major area Honors enrichments waived,
                        pending review by the Director of the GSW  University Honors Program.

            A generous stipend is given to students in the Honors Program, but students must live on campus or with his or her parents in Americus.
            For additional information call (800) 338-0082.

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