Question: When did the University of North Georgia, also known as UNG, approve and consolidate the name change?
Context: Bonita Jacobs is president of the University of North Georgia (UNG).  UNG was formed in January 2013 through consolidation of Gainesville State College and North Georgia College & State University. William Starr Basinger (1827–1910) was a lawyer, military officer, state legislator, and the president of the University of North Georgia.  He served as a major in the 18th Georgia Battalion of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.  In 1886 Basinger, succeeding David W. Lewis, became the second president of North Georgia Agricultural College (now UNG). Point University is a private, Christian, liberal arts university in West Point, Georgia, 60 mi southwest of Atlanta.  The liberal arts institution was founded in 1937 as Atlanta Christian College, located in the Atlanta suburb of East Point.  In 2011, the college announced a name change to Point University.  It relocated its main campus to West Point, Georgia, in June 2012. John H. Owen (June 22, 1922 – February 15, 2011) was the twelfth president of the University of North Georgia (UNG) and a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy during the Second World War.  He was the president of UNG for twenty-two years, longer than any other president in the University's history. Robert Herring Wright (May 21, 1870 – April 25, 1934) was the first president of East Carolina Teachers Training School.  Wright received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1897 from the University of North Carolina.  He completed further education at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.  He held many teaching posts until he was asked by Thomas Jordan Jarvis to serve as the first president in 1909.  By 1920, Wright successfully lobbied the North Carolina state legislature to approve a four-year curriculum, which forced a re-charter and name change to East Carolina Teachers College.  The Wright Building on the main campus at ECU is named for him.  He died of a heart attack in 1934. David W. Lewis was born in 1815 in Hancock County, Georgia.  After graduating from the University of Georgia in 1837 he pursued careers as a lawyer, an agricultural reformer, and a planter.  One of his first roles in public service began in 1839 as secretary to Georgia governor George N. Gilmer.  He is also known for his service in the Congress of the Confederate States during the Civil War.  In 1873 Lewis became the first president of North Georgia Agricultural College, an institution now formally known as the University of North Georgia.  In addition to his service as president at the college, Lewis was also one of the two professors at the school in its early years, teaching Greek and English literature. State Route 515 (SR 515) is a 76.2 mi four-lane C-shaped state highway in the northern part of the U.S. state of Georgia.  It begins just west of Nelson.  It curves to the northeast to Lake Chatuge, where it heads north to the North Carolina state line.  The highway was built to give motorists in the north Georgia mountains better access to Atlanta and its outlying suburbs, as opposed to the old SR 5 and U.S. Route 76 (US 76) highways, which this project replaced.  SR 515 is also known as the Zell Miller Mountain Parkway, in honor of Zell Miller, the Young Harris native turned Georgia governor and U.S. senator.  It is one of the Georgia Department of Transportation's Governor's Road Improvement Program (GRIP) corridors.  The highway is known for its mountain views all along its route.  SR 515 is part of the Appalachian Development Highway System's Corridor A.  The highway was designated in 1989. The University of North Georgia (UNG) is an educational institution that was established by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents on January 8, 2013.  The consolidation of North Georgia College & State University and Gainesville State College was announced on January 10, 2012, and the name of the new school was announced on May 8, 2012.  The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) approved the consolidation December 11, 2012.  The combined institution has campus locations in Dahlonega, Gainesville (Gainesville Campus), Watkinsville (Oconee Campus), Blue Ridge, and Cumming. The Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences is an American pharmacy school founded in 1985 by Dean Ronald Maddox and located in Buies Creek, North Carolina.  The College is one of seven schools that compose Campbell University.  In 2009, the school's name was changed to Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.  According to Chairman Bob Barker, "The Board of Trustees feels the name change reflects the University's commitment to educating not only qualified pharmacists, but other health sciences professionals in our community.This name change will provide the foundation to implement future health science programs as the University looks to the future." Arthur Woody (April 1, 1884 - June 10, 1946) was born in Suches, Georgia.  He was an American conservationist and humanitarian who saw his father kill the last deer in the North Georgia mountains in 1895, and is credited with bringing deer back to the North Georgia mountains.  As a forest ranger for the United States Forest Service, he served in Georgia from 1912 to 1945 and was involved in the acquisition of land in what became the Chattahoochee National Forest.  He also is known for putting rainbow and brown trout in streams, restoring native brook trout, restoring turkey and black bear populations and was the driving force behind Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area (established 1936), the first of its kind in Georgia and the nation.  He built lakes, fire towers, brought roads to the area, built Woody Gap School in Suches, Georgia (1940), was instrumental in building the Appalachian Trail through Georgia, and did much to help his mountain people during the Great Depression.
Answer: December 11, 2012.