College To Close Continuing Ed Center

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- Georgia Perimeter College says it will close
its Center for Continuing and Corporate Education on June 30.

College President Anthony Tricoli says the college must make
deep cuts "in order to weather this rough economic storm." The
college has lost millions of dollars in state funding in recent
years and faces additional cuts.

Spokeswoman Jenn Banks Mason says the center, which began in the 1960s, has lost between $300,000 and $400,000 a year for the past few years.

Mason says about 6,000 students a year take classes at the
center and the college employs about 20 staff members there on a contractual basis.