The struggle to develop one unified vision while maintaining individual campus identities was evident at a University of North Georgia strategic planning town hall meeting. “Nobody was crazy about this (merger), to put it mildly,” Strategic Planning Committee Chairman J.B. Sharma said. “And everyone went into a state of grieving. ‘What happened to our placid pond?’ But at the same time, people have moved ahead with a can-do spirit. ‘We’re going to make lemonade out of lemons.’ The point being that we are representatives of the wishes and the hopes and aspirations of the children of this area and the unborn children of this area.”
UNG asks community for input on future vision
