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Atlanta - Georgia
Governor Roy E. Barnes, chairman of the Southern Regional Education
Board, urges other states to follow Georgia's lead and adopt
electronic tuition rates that are not based on where a student lives.
In an op/ed
written for SREB, he says that the Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia was on the right track in May when it
authorized special tuition rates for distance education.
“We have 21st-century distance learning and a 19th-century
approach to selling it to adults who need it,” says Governor Barnes.
“Arbitrary in-state and out-of-state tuition charges don't serve
students, colleges or states. Electronic tuition rates for education
delivered electronically make much more sense.”
The governor's op/ed is on the SREB Web site at www.sreb.org
For more information, please contact:
Bruce Chaloux, director, SREB Electronic Campus, (404) 875-9211 ( bruce.chaloux@sreb.org)
Tom Bradbury, vice president for communications, (404) 875-9211 (tom.bradbury@sreb.org)
For release June 11, 2002
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