The Board of Advisors will recommend policy, events, teaching directions, and research agenda to the New Media Institute. Through the New Media Consortium and the New Media Institute Board of Advisors, the NMI will constantly reorient itself to the issues and challenges facing organizations using new media. Improve UGA through new media systems. As with any other institution or business of its size, UGA can benefit through effective application of new media technologies. But UGA is having difficulty adapting to the challenges of new media.
Distance learning requires time-consuming planning and execution by skilled personnel.
Electronic document processing can save our campus thousands of dollars a day, but it requires advanced knowledge of specialized technology. Like any organization, UGA has difficulty attracting and retaining trained new media professionals. However, UGA s position is exacerbated by budget constraints - a public university will never be able to offer salaries competitive with businesses. As a result, our new media efforts are hampered. The New Media Institute will offer a program to develop effective and professional new media systems for UGA while at the same time providing realistic learning situations for new media students.