Please keep the handbook accessible. It is the faculty member's responsibility to remove outdated information and insert new information when directed to do so by the Academic Affairs Office. All state-supported institutions of higher learning in Georgia were combined into the greater University System of Georgia by legislative enactment at the regular session of the General Assembly in 1931. Under the articles of the Act, all existent boards of trustees were abolished and control of the system was vested in a Board of Regents with all the powers and rights of the former governing boards of the several institutions. Control of the system by the Board of Regents became effective January 1, 1932.
Members serve for seven-year terms.
The Chief Executive Officer of the University System is the chancellor, who is elected by the BOR and directs the operations of the thirty-four institutions that comprise the university system. Georgia Perimeter College Gordon College Middle Georgia College . Originally named North Georgia Agricultural College, the institution was established in 1873 as a land-grant school of agriculture and mechanical arts, particularly mining engineering. The school was renamed North Georgia College in the summer of 1929. The institution operated under the quarter system until the fall of 1998, at which time it coverted to the semester system as mandated by the Board of Regents.