Georgia Highlands to hold Paulding campus grand opening

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On: August 9, 2009

Georgia Highlands College and Kennesaw State University will hold a ribbon cutting for the Paulding County Instructional Site in downtown Dallas at 11 a.m. Aug. 14. GHC will begin offering core undergraduate classes this fall and KSU will offer upper level business classes and graduate courses in educational leadership in spring 2010. The new instructional facility includes two newly renovated floors of classrooms, labs, a media library, student lounge and administrative offices. A tour of the facility will follow the ceremony.

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