Georgia Official and Statistical Register 1983-84 - the Digital Library ...

Lewis Canup .............. District Engineer, GainesvilleGeorge J. Lyons............... District Engineer, TennilleBobby Melton ............. District Engineer, ThomastonCecil Pearce ................... District Engineer, TiftonJohn W. Wade, Jr. ......... District Engineer, CartersvilleW. Juan Durrence ........... District Engineer, ChambleeDaniel O. Kelly ........... Secretary /Treasurer, Director,AdministrationJames R. Martin .. Transportation Accounts Administrator,General AccountingJames L. Bryant... Transportation Accounts Administrator,Audits & Fiscal ProceduresArthur Vaugh.... Transportation Accounts, Administrator,General Support ServicesEarl Pirkle ............ Air Transportation AdministratorTHE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIAandBOARD OF REGENTSThe Board of Regents of the University System of Georgiagoverns, controls, and manages the University System and allof its institutions (1983 Constitution, Art. VIII, Sec. 4, Par. Iand OCGA 20-3).The University System of Georgia consists of eighteen universities and senior colleges and fifteen junior colleges. Theseinstitutions offer comprehensive programs of instruction,research and public service, and are located throughout theState so that approximately ninty-six percent of the populationlive within thirty-five miles of at least one of the institutions.The fifteen member Board of Regents includes one memberfrom each of the ten congressional districts and five membersfrom the state-at-large. The members, who serve seven-yearstaggered terms, are appointed by the Governor, subject toconfirmation by the State Senate.Board MembersThe Chancellor of the University System is appointed by andserves at the pleasure of the Board of Regents. As chief executive officer of the Board, the Chancellor is responsible forperforming any duties directed by the Board. He also serves asthe chief administrative officer of the University System, andgenerally, supervises all institutions.Authority and responsibilities of the Board of Regents andthe University System are enumerated in OCGA 20-3.HISTORY. State supported higher education in Georgiatraces to an act passed by the General Assembly in February1784, setting aside 40,000 acres to endow a college or seminaryof learning. That year, Abraham Baldwin drafted a charter forsuch an institution to be named Franklin College in honor ofBenjamin Franklin. In January 1785, the legislature adoptedthe charter, making Franklin College (which became the University of Georgia in 1859) the oldest state-chartered universityin the nation. Baldwin was named college president by its firstboard of trustees, although it was 1801 before Franklin Collegeactually began operation. The same act also created a SenatusAcademicus of the University of Georgia, comprised of theBoard of Visitors and the Board of Trustees. The Board ofVisitors, charged with "the general superintendence and regulation" of the University was comprised of the Governor andCouncil, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and the ChiefJustice of the State. The Senatus Academicus, a forerunner ofthe Board of Regents, was specifically charged with responsibility for governing the University, managing its property, andappointing its president, nominated by the Board of Trustees.The Board of Trustees had power to fill vacancies on the Board,to appoint professors and other university officers, set salaries,and prescribe the course of studies (Marbury & Crawford, p.560). At various intervals, the General Assembly establishedadditional state colleges and placed them under the control ofindividual boards of trustees. The passage of the Morrill Act in1862 stimulated the expansion of state schools by providingfederal land grants to support colleges which would emphasizeacademic programs related to agriculture and mechanical arts.An 1890 amendment to the Morrill Act provided annual cashgrants to the land-grant colleges."wn©5 "V rv i A IK University of Georgia under a newly created Board of Regentswiiuam i. uivme, jr. ....................... Aioany Qf the University System. The General Assembly substantiallyr , . 1S .. , A __ . increased the Board©s powers in 1933. Among other provisions,4th D t"ct HI .................... Amencus rather than making separate appropriations to individual units,Jack^M Ward Atlanta the General Assembly began appropriating a lump sum to the5th Dt ct Atlanta Boar(J an(J authorized the Board to allocate these funds to theElridge W. McMillan ....................... Atlanta respective institutions as it deemed appropriate (Ga. L. 1933, p.6th District 6I) ©Edgar L. Rhodes ........................... Bremen The Board was also given broad powers to consolidate,7th District suspend, or discontinue any institution, department, or courseLloyd L. Summer, Jr. ........................ Rome of study within the system. As a consequence, the number of8th District system schools was reduced from twenty-five to eighteen; cur-Thomas H. Frier, Sr......................... Douglas riculum and admission standards were revised, new teacher9th District training and graduate degree programs were inaugurated (Ga.Sidney O. Smith, Jr., Chairman ............... Atlanta L. 1933, p. 62). A building construction program, financed by a10th District loan from the federal Public Works Administration, assistedJulius F. Bishop ............................. Athens the modem development of the University System.M Mlb^r~w~1n!?HH Ati t An Act of 1937 increased the Board by four at-largeMane w uoaa ............................ /uiania members (Ga. L. 1937, p. 526). The Board was reorganized by ai k, Hif A u t- -n 1943 Act which provided for a new fifteen member Board;John Henry Anderson................... Hawkmsville remOved the Governor from its members; and made it a constitutionalbody (Ga. L. 1943, p. 670). These provisions were«»*». »«