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Sonny Perdue at a Board of Regents meeting, May 15th 2025.

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Student protestors ask Georgia Board of Regents to divest from companies involved in the war in Gaza

Student activists asked the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents to divest from groups or businesses connected to the war in Gaza.

May 15, 2025
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  • Chase McGee
Sonny Perdue testifies during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on the rural economy, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Jacquelyn Martin AP

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Former Trump official says DOGE cuts are impacting Georgia’s universities

Sonny Perdue, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, confirmed that cuts to federal spending are impacting Georgia’s public colleges and universities.

April 08, 2025
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  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
GSU Law School Among the Nation's Best

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Audit finds university system picking up bigger share of student costs

The University System of Georgia has reduced the financial burden of attending college significantly in recent years, the system’s chief financial officer said Tuesday.

January 15, 2025
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  • Dave Williams
A man sits on the streetcar platform at Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024.

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Georgia State University is planning a $107M remake of downtown Atlanta

Georgia State University plans a rapid $107 million remake of its downtown Atlanta campus before summer 2026, fueled by an $80 million gift. The University System of Georgia on Tuesday approved the plan.

November 13, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Georgia State University students Kavita Javalagi, left, and Gana Natarajan, second from left, speak with Shetundra Pinkston, during the Startup Student Connection job fair, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Atlanta. Students applying to Georgia State and three other public universities in the state beginning in the fall of 2026 will have to start submitting SAT or ACT scores.

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Four more Georgia public universities to require standardized test in fall 2026

Georgia will require the ACT or SAT college tests at four more public universities starting in the fall of 2026. But the University System of Georgia will not restore testing requirements to as many colleges as before the pandemic.

May 15, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Members of the United Campus Workers of Georgia gathered at the state capitol on Jan 30, 2024 to demand better pay and more funding across the university system.

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Georgia campus workers' union lobbies state legislators for better job conditions

Union members gathered at the Georgia Capitol this week to share a list demands from employees across the university system. They're focused on higher pay and funding for universities.

February 02, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
A student walks the Kennesaw State University Campus. Universities like Kennesaw allow high school students to sign up for college level classes.

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Georgia lawmakers consider shrinking state’s dual enrollment options for high school students

About 45,000 Georgia students participated in dual enrollment last year, taking college-level classes for both college and high school credit.

September 11, 2023
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  • Ross Williams

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Study shows over a quarter of public college professors in Georgia are considering leaving the jobs

A new study from the American Association of University Professors shows more than a quarter of public university professors in some states, including Georgia, are considering leaving their jobs.

September 08, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
The Arch on the University of Georgia campus

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Study: University System of Georgia contributes more than $20 billion to economy

The University System of Georgia delivered an economic impact of $20.1 billion in fiscal 2022, up $800 million, or 4.14%, over the previous year.

August 09, 2023
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  • Dave Williams

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Georgia Supreme Court strikes down professors' challenge to campus gun laws

Five state university professors have lost their challenge to a Georgia law allowing weapons on campus.

May 31, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya
Sonny Perdue, former Governor of Georgia and current Chancellor of the Georgia Board of Regents, speaks in a Regents meeting via livestream on May 16, 2023.

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No tuition hike at Georgia colleges and universities despite $66 million budget cut

Despite a $66 million cut to the University of System of Georgia's budget by state lawmakers, tuition will remain mostly unchanged for the 2023-24 school year.

May 17, 2023
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  • Donna Lowry
This Monday, May 1, 2023 photo shows the main entrance to Savannah State University in Savannah, Ga. Savannah State President Kimberly Ballard-Washington is resigning as leader of Georgia's oldest historically Black public university amid financial challenges that include employee layoffs and a faculty revolt against one of her top administrators.

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Savannah State leader resigning amid declining enrollment

The president of Georgia's oldest historically Black public university is resigning amid financial challenges that sparked employee layoffs and a faculty revolt against one of the top administrators. Savannah State University President announced Thursday that she would step down on June 30.

May 02, 2023
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  • Associated Press

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University system extends waiver of test requirements

The University System of Georgia (USG) will waive SAT and ACT test requirements at most of the system’s 26 institutions for another academic year.

April 21, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
A student walks past the campus green at Kennesaw State University. Lawmakers hope to lower the costs of attending Georgia’s public universities, but the cost of living remains high as inflation rises.

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Georgia college students learning hard economics lessons as cost of living rises

College students across Georgia are dealing with plenty of stress from academics, relationships, family issues, and, increasingly, from finances. Until now, Georgia has been one of only two states with no state-funded needs-based aid program, but a bill awaiting Gov. Brian Kemp’s signature could change that.

April 28, 2022
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  • Ross Williams
University of Georgia freshmen eat lunch behind one of the main dining halls.

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Public college costs to fall in Georgia as fee goes away

Prices are going down for almost all of Georgia's 340,000 public university and college students. University System regents voted Tuesday to eliminate a fee in exchange for a big boost in state funding.

April 13, 2022
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