{"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\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126ba1970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126ba1970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nAngela Crance,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiregrass.edu\/directory\/partial_name.php\">\nSpecial Assistant to the President of\nWiregrass Georgia Technical College<\/a>,\ntold\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-on-the-table-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\">\nthe Industrial Authority 19 February 2013<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m here for Wiregrass, and\nwe just want to thank you for bringing this up and making it a top priority\nfor the community [looking at\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-one-of-the-number-one-issues-bill-slaughter-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\">\nLowndes County Commission Chairman Bill Slaughter<\/a>]\nand\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/companies-need-broadband-especially-in-rural-areas-of-our-county-andrea-schruijer-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\">\nthe Industrial Authority<\/a>&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/leepDiWHm6M?list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s definitely a priority for us&#8230;.\nOnly 14% of our citizens have a college degree\nand we need 70% to have a college degree within ten years.\nTo be able to accomplish that we&#8217;d better have\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nthe right schools\nthat have these students here.\nWe want them to come here we want them to go to school\nand graduate and stay here with the jobs.\nAnd to do that we&#8217;ve got to have the infrastructure in place to help\nus accomplish that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe already have a lot of things we do like web hosting and video conferencing.\nBut we can only do it on a limited scale with our eleven counties and\nour K-12 schools and VSU.\nHaving this community-wide would really enhance those type programs that we do.\nWith the health science building and 40% of our students in health, we can&#8217;t&#8230;\nHigh school students, for instance, can&#8217;t go to clinicals in the hospital,\nbut we could do it through video conference and live lectures if we had\nthe capacity.\nRight now that&#8217;s not really possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd as a community leader and a community citizen\nI know it would help the quality of life for everybody.\nAnd I want my children to stay here [looking at Slaughter]\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\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126bb9970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c37126bb9970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nThen she\n<a name=\"Engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wy3WGF2GiBQ&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHaEK5PhHJ7p1RCtOz1PgWy\">\ntalked about a proposed School of Engineering and Science<\/a>,\nand said words that were music to my ears:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMy ultimate goal in five years\nis to be a\ncenter of excellence in broadband and wireless for the National Science Foundation.\nIf you accomplish a\ncenter of excellence for the National Science Foundation\nit brings in tens of millions of dollars to your region,\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.\nWe&#8217;re taking that on because we want to be the best in the nation.\nWe&#8217;ve talked to the service providers; we have the industries with us\nas partners; and\nthey tell (not locally; I&#8217;m talking about nationwide)\n80% of the current landlines has to be retrained to wireless; the employees.\nThere&#8217;s really nowhere to do that unless they do it internally.\nWe want them to come here.\nWe already have one&#8230; that actually is helping us with a million dollars\ntowards equipment&#8230;.\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.\nIf we can accomplish this, it&#8217;s going to be huge.\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]\nto be wireless will be critical for us, because these companies won&#8217;t\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!\nSomebody who dares to set a big goal without saying &#8220;we&#8217;ll never be Austin\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]\nhas said that this is a top priority,\nand we&#8217;re on board with that.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nNext: VSU!\nSee\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/broadband-huge-strategic-initiative-for-our-community-mary-gooding-for-vsu-vlcia-2013-02-19.html\">\nnext post.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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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