West Georgia College
Organization
Parallel Names
- WGC
Biographical / Historical
The Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School was established in December, 1906 in Carroll County, Georgia following the August 18, 1906 approval of Public Law 448 by the Georgia General Assembly, an act providing for the establishment and maintenance of schools of agriculture and mechanical arts to serve rural youth in each congressional district. The school operated from 1908-1933, becoming West Georgia College on April 15, 1933. It remained a college until noon on June 12, 1996, when it was named the State University of West Georgia. This name changed in 2005 to University of West Georgia.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Collus O. Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0020
Overview
Papers of Collus O. Johnson, an education professor and Associate Director of Adult Education at West Georgia College from 1951 to 1964. In 1967, he became Director of Continuing Education. He was a leader of the “College in the Country,” a program to bring education to the region’s remote communities through collaboration with the college’s faculty and education students. He was instrumental in arranging international “studycades” during which local educators and students to participate in...
Dates:
1940-1990