{"id":89,"date":"2013-02-24T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-top-priority-education-jobs-quality-of-life-angela-crance-vlcia-2013-02-19.html"},"modified":"2013-02-24T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T20:05:18","slug":"broadband-top-priority-education-jobs-quality-of-life-angela-crance-vlcia-2013-02-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-top-priority-education-jobs-quality-of-life-angela-crance-vlcia-2013-02-19.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband top priority, education, jobs, quality of life &mdash;Angela Crance @ VLCIA 2013-02-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a name=\"Crance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=leepDiWHm6M&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126ba1970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126ba1970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nAngela Crance,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiregrass.edu\/directory\/partial_name.php\"><br \/>\nSpecial Assistant to the President of<br \/>\nWiregrass Georgia Technical College<\/a>,<br \/>\ntold<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-on-the-table-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\"><br \/>\nthe Industrial Authority 19 February 2013<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m here for Wiregrass, and<br \/>\nwe just want to thank you for bringing this up and making it a top priority<br \/>\nfor the community [looking at<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-one-of-the-number-one-issues-bill-slaughter-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\"><br \/>\nLowndes County Commission Chairman Bill Slaughter<\/a>]<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/companies-need-broadband-especially-in-rural-areas-of-our-county-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\"><br \/>\nthe Industrial Authority<\/a>&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/leepDiWHm6M?list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s definitely a priority for us&#8230;.<br \/>\nOnly 14% of our citizens have a college degree<br \/>\nand we need 70% to have a college degree within ten years.<br \/>\nTo be able to accomplish that we&#8217;d better have\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nthe right schools<br \/>\nthat have these students here.<br \/>\nWe want them to come here we want them to go to school<br \/>\nand graduate and stay here with the jobs.<br \/>\nAnd to do that we&#8217;ve got to have the infrastructure in place to help<br \/>\nus accomplish that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe already have a lot of things we do like web hosting and video conferencing.<br \/>\nBut we can only do it on a limited scale with our eleven counties and<br \/>\nour K-12 schools and VSU.<br \/>\nHaving this community-wide would really enhance those type programs that we do.<br \/>\nWith the health science building and 40% of our students in health, we can&#8217;t&#8230;<br \/>\nHigh school students, for instance, can&#8217;t go to clinicals in the hospital,<br \/>\nbut we could do it through video conference and live lectures if we had<br \/>\nthe capacity.<br \/>\nRight now that&#8217;s not really possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd as a community leader and a community citizen<br \/>\nI know it would help the quality of life for everybody.<br \/>\nAnd I want my children to stay here [looking at Slaughter]<br \/>\nyou know, and my grandchildren, so we want to make sure the jobs are here.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nAin&#8217;t all that the truth.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wy3WGF2GiBQ&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126bb9970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126bb9970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nThen she<br \/>\n<a name=\"Engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wy3WGF2GiBQ&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\"><br \/>\ntalked about a proposed School of Engineering and Science<\/a>,<br \/>\nand said words that were music to my ears:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMy ultimate goal in five years<br \/>\nis to be a<br \/>\ncenter of excellence in broadband and wireless for the National Science Foundation.<br \/>\nIf you accomplish a<br \/>\ncenter of excellence for the National Science Foundation<br \/>\nit brings in tens of millions of dollars to your region,<br \/>\nbecause you&#8217;re the subject matter expert.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wy3WGF2GiBQ?list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a scary thing to start.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re taking that on because we want to be the best in the nation.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve talked to the service providers; we have the industries with us<br \/>\nas partners; and<br \/>\nthey tell (not locally; I&#8217;m talking about nationwide)<br \/>\n80% of the current landlines has to be retrained to wireless; the employees.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s really nowhere to do that unless they do it internally.<br \/>\nWe want them to come here.<br \/>\nWe already have one&#8230; that actually is helping us with a million dollars<br \/>\ntowards equipment&#8230;.<br \/>\nAnd they are looking at doing a training center here because we&#8217;re doing this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd we want to take it even further.<br \/>\nIf we can accomplish this, it&#8217;s going to be huge.<br \/>\nIt could change the face of our community and that&#8217;s our ultimate goal&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd for our community to have this as a top priority [looks at Slaughter]<br \/>\nto be wireless will be critical for us, because these companies won&#8217;t<br \/>\ncome here without these levels.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nSomebody with a real-world goal and some understanding of what it would take!<br \/>\nSomebody who dares to set a big goal without saying &#8220;we&#8217;ll never be Austin<br \/>\nor &#8220;we&#8217;ll never be Silicon Valley!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\">\nRoy Copeland re-emphasized it:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nWell, the Chairman [referring to Slaughter]<br \/>\nhas said that this is a top priority,<br \/>\nand we&#8217;re on board with that.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nNext: VSU!<br \/>\nSee<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-huge-strategic-initiative-for-our-community-mary-gooding-for-vsu-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\"><br \/>\nnext post.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Crance, Special Assistant to the President of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, told the Industrial Authority 19 February 2013: I&#8217;m here for Wiregrass, and we just want to thank you for bringing this up and making it a top priority for the community [looking at Lowndes County Commission Chairman Bill Slaughter] and the Industrial Authority&#8230;. 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