The Georgia Board of Regents oversees the

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as part of the

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in the

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. The

is composed of all state public institutions of higher education in the state. The Board of Regents also preside over the

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History

The Board was organized on January 1, 1932, to create centralized control over all member institutions. The Board marked the first period that public institutions of higher education were governed and managed under a sole authority. The governor appoints members of the Board, each of whom serve seven years. Today the Board of Regents is composed of 19 members, five of whom are appointed from the state-at-large, and one from each of the state’s 14 congressional districts. The Board elects a chancellor who serves as its chief executive officer and the chief administrative officer of the University System.

Governing authority

The Board oversees 26 institutions of higher education: four

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, four comprehensive universities, 9 state universities, and 9 state colleges. In fiscal 2003, there were 10,626 faculty positions and 241,878

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s. Those numbers grew to 35,000 and 253,000, respectively, in 2006. Public funding for member institutions is distributed by the Board. In

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2003, the Board dispensed $1,697,287,628 of funding, authorized by the

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. In 2006, the budget grew to $5 billion.

Organization

The Board consists of 19 voting members, serving seven-year terms. The Governor appoints, subject to Senate confirmation, one from each Congressional district and five at-large members. The Board appoints a chief executive for the system, known as a

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became the 13th Chancellor in 2017. Previous chancellors include

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(1932–1933),

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(1935-1945),Reed, p.2951

Harmon White Caldwell Harmon White Caldwell (January 29, 1899 – April 15, 1977) was President of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens from 1935 until 1948 and Chancellor of the University System of Georgia from 1948 to 1964. Caldwell was born in the Carmel C ...

(1948-1964), Erroll B. Davis, Jr. (2006-2011), and

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(2011-2017).Fincher, p.35 Each individual institution has its own President and senior staff. The system of 26 colleges and universities includes the

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, the state's flagship land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant research university,

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, a historically black land-grant university,

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, which specializes in coastal and marine environments and became part of the University of Georgia in 2013, the

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, which has a strong emphasis in technology and engineering, Augusta University that includes the

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, and the

, which distributes state funding to 385 libraries in the state's 61 public library systems.

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