70 Day Miracle

There were numerous people who suffered from Albany Flood of 1994. Albany and surrounding areas in Southwest Georgia endured the natural disaster hailing from a Tropical Storm named “Alberto”. This natural disaster flooded the campus of Albany State College, later to be known as Albany State University. In which this caused the enrollment of students attending Albany State College to decrease slightly. Through research findings, I will compare the number of students enrolled before and after the flood by reviewing historical documents such as footage shot the day after the flood, ASC Fact Book of enrollment, a chronology of the flood and the “70 day miracle” synopsis, and Dr. Black State of the College. My topic relates to public education
Black responded to the natural disaster on August 3, 1994 and held a State of the College on September 6, 1995. During Dr. Black’s first response, he addressed the flood to be the greatest challenge ASC has ever faced and presented a seventy day miracle plan. The seventy day miracle plan included events that began the day of the flood. On July 7, 1994, The Flint River floods onto the campus of ASC damaging twenty-eight buildings. On July 8, 1994, Major administrative offices and campus-wide computers were re-established in Pendergrast library. On July 12, 1994, a recovery plan was developed and submitted to the Board of Regents for approval and FEMA opened a disaster assistance center in Albany. August 3, 1994, over 250,000 square feet of modular units arrived for the construction of temporary campus and classes resumed at ASC on September 21, 1994. (Black,
Black requested from the Board of Regents to give the College seventy-five hundred thousand dollars in special initiative funding in fiscal year 1997. This funding would be to enhance public administration program, establish a living/learning lab in the school of business, and to execute a MBA program. President Black estimated that the total rebuilding program for the College will be one hundred-three million dollars. This amount covered renovations, demolitions, and new constructions. Due to the flood drastically damaging the building on campus, funds from the Board of Regents had to be utilized to repair the College to its normal state of being. With all things considered, student enrollment began to