The campus is well integrated with the MCG campus and offers the same curriculum to generic baccalaureate, RN to BSN and masters students. There are faculty who are only on the Athens campus, and others who are primarily on the main campus and teach by distance education techniques to Athens. Student services, including housing, library facilities and student activities are provided by the University of Georgia by cooperative agreement. This program is meeting a need for baccalaureate nursing education in an area of Georgia that does not have another nursing program. The student satisfaction with the physical arrangement is consistently high.
Plans are currently in place to increase the student enrollment at the Athens campus.
The faculty have met and looked at various strategies to manage the business of the SON with the 14 people leaving. The faculty currently teach multiple courses across departmental lines which the faculty view as a strength in rebounding from the reductions. A faculty forum was used to decide on maintaining the current administrative structure at least until the current Dean and Administrators leave. The faculty are exploring options for re-organization of the Dean, Associate Deans, and Department Chairs lines. They have also explored the role that technology can play should the need for reduction of faculty FTE's reduce the number of faculty in courses.