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Attorney and academic leader Philip Weltner, born July 18, 1887, worked for nearly nine decades enacting social, judicial, and educational change in Georgia.
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Philip Weltner held several academic leadership positions, including chancellor of the University System of Georgia and president of Oglethorpe University.
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Sally Cobb Hull, born in Athens in 1887, married Philip Weltner in 1913. After Weltner retired from his position as president of Oglethorpe University, the couple moved to a plot of land behind the Brookhaven campus, gifted by the University's Board of Trustees.
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As president of Oglethorpe University from 1944-53, Philip Weltner revamped the core curriculum program and saved the university from near financial ruin. The Philip Weltner Library at Lowry Hall, shown here, is named in his honor.
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Educator and suffragist Adella Hunt Logan received an honorary master's degree from Atlanta University in 1901. The degree was "honorary" because the school was not yet accredited to grant graduate degrees.
From Adele Logan Alexander's personal collection
Adella Hunt Logan is pictured in her wedding dress in Atlanta. She married Tuskegee Institute treasurer Warren Logan in 1888.
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After accepting a teaching position at the Tuskegee Institute in 1883, Adella Hunt Logan forged enduring relationships with fellow educators and civil rights leaders. Among her new acquaintances was NAACP cofounder W. E. B. Du Bois, with whom she shared a lifelong correspondence.
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Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and school treasurer Warren Logan are featured in the Lincoln Jubilee Album, shortly after Washington's death in 1915.
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Located in downtown Atlanta, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR) is a museum that explores the connections between the U.S. civil rights movement and the global struggle for human rights.
Photograph by Bradley Huchteman
The NCCHR's 42,000 square-foot facility opened in 2014 and receives approximately 200,000 visitors each year.
Photograph by Marco Correa
The center's primary exhibit, "Rolls Down Like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement," incorporates historical images, oral histories, and film footage alongside interactive features.
Photograph from the National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Helen Lewis, activist and scholar, was a founder of the Appalachian Studies discipline. After moving to Wise, Virginia, in the heart of coal country, in 1955, she came to despise the human and environmental devastation caused by the coal and chemical industry.
Courtesy of Appalachian State University, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection.
Living Social Justice in Appalachia was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2012. Compiled by longtime colleagues Judith Jennings and Patricia Beaver, it contains biographical essays, oral histories, and interviews with Helen Lewis.
The administrative campus for Southern Regional Technical College, formed in 2015 by the merger of Moultrie Technical College with Southwest Georgia Technical College, is located in Thomasville. The Thomasville campus of Southwest Georgia Tech was established in 1947 for the education of World War II veterans.
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The main campus of Moultrie Technical College was located in Moultrie, the seat of Colquitt County. Established in 1964, the school catered to the agricultural industry of its service area, which encompassed Colquitt, Tift, Turner, and Worth counties. In 2015 it merged with Southwest Georgia Technical College to form Southern Regional Technical College.
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The first Organized Labor and Workmen's Circle Banquet took place in May 1969 at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta. Seated from left to right: E. L. Abercrombie, Oliver Singleton, Gid Parham, Joe Jacobs, Robert Shadix, and Harold Bauman. Standing from left to right: Joe Baylan, Irving Gordon, E. T. Kehrer, George Caudelle, Harris Jacobs, John Wright, and James Howard (?).
James Sala, a leader in the AFL-CIO, presents a check to William R. Pullen for the establishment of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University in Atlanta, circa 1969.
David B. Gracy, appointed in 1971 as the first director of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, sits at his desk in 1974. He remained in the position until 1976.
Leslie Hough, the second director of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, is pictured in 1985. Under Hough, the Archives acquired the records of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and the United Garment Workers of America, as well as the papers of U.S. secretary of labor W. J. Usery Jr. and labor activist Stetson Kennedy.
Thrash Hall, on the campus of South Georgia College in Coffee County, is named for the first president of the college and originally housed the school's library. Today the building, pictured circa 2002, serves as the president's office. Founded in 1907, South Georgia College is a four-year institution of the University System of Georgia.
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The Blue Ridge Mountains surround the campus of North Georgia College and State University, one of six senior military colleges in the United States.
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Rains Hall houses the offices of the university president, advancement, and public relations and publications at Augusta State University. The building is named in honor of Colonel George W. Rains, who reopened the Academy of Richmond County after its closure during the Civil War.
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Haygood Hall (left) and Holsey Hall are pictured in 1899 on the campus of Paine College, a historically Black liberal arts college in Augusta.
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As bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Lucius Holsey oversaw the growth of the denomination in his native state of Georgia. He was also instrumental in the establishment of Paine Institute (later Paine College), which opened in Augusta in 1884.
Photograph by Mathew B. Brady. Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
The 1891 class of the Paine College normal school, which trained preachers and teachers, is pictured. The college was founded in Augusta in 1884 to provide a liberal arts education to African American students of both genders.
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The faculty of Paine College, a historically Black college in Augusta, is pictured in 1936. The faculty was all white upon the college's opening in 1884 and was integrated four years later, when its first Black faculty member, John Wesley Gilbert, was hired.
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The Paine College men's basketball team is pictured in 1930. Sitting, left to right: A. Moore, C. Mack, Fair, McFall, Mills. Standing, left to right: Beckham, W. Moore, Snyder, Wallace, Bowman, and Wiggins (coach).
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Dr. Lucius Holsey Pitts, a member of the Paine College class of 1941, is pictured in 1971, when he became the college's first Black president.
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Building B, pictured in 2012, is the main administrative and classroom building at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville. It was designed by prominent Atlanta architect John Portman.
Photograph by and reprinted by permission of Michael Gagnon
The administrative campus for Oconee Fall Line Technical College, known as the North Campus, is located in Sandersville. The college was formed in 2011 as a merger of Sandersville Technical College andHeart of Georgia Technical College.
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The South Campus of Oconee Fall Line Technical College is located in Dublin, the seat of Laurens County. The college was formed in 2011 as a merger of Heart of Georgia Technical College and Sandersville Technical College.
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The Flint River campus of Southern Crescent Technical College is located in Thomaston, the seat of Upson County. The campus opened in 1961 as the Upson County Area Vocational-Technical School.
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The administrative campus for Southern Crescent Technical College is located in Griffin. The college was formed in 2010 as a merger of Griffin Technical College and Flint River Technical College.
Photograph by Michael Rivera
The administrative campus for Wiregrass Georgia Technical College is located in Valdosta. The college was formed in 2010 as a merger of Valdosta Technical College and East Central Technical College.
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The Ben Hill–Irwin campus of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College is located in Fitzgerald, the seat of Ben Hill County. The campus opened in 1970 as the Ben Hill–Irwin Area Vocational Institute.
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Members of the operating room staff at the Medical Department of UGA (later Georgia Health Sciences University) in Augusta are pictured in the early 1900s.
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The original building on the campus of Georgia Health Sciences University, completed in Augusta in 1837, was designed by the architect Charles B. Cluskey. The structure, Cluskey's first major building, is an excellent example of the Greek revival style.
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Milton M. Antony, a physician in Augusta, was instrumental in the 1828 founding of the Medical Academy of Georgia, which later became Georgia Health Sciences University.
Courtesy of Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Health Sciences University
The city hospital in Augusta, built in 1818, served as the first home for Georgia Health Sciences University, from 1828 until the mid-1830s.
Courtesy of Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Health Sciences University
A new city hospital in Augusta, which opened in 1869 and served for many years as the clinical training site for students at the Medical Department of UGA (later Georgia Health Sciences University), is pictured in 1894, following a renovation.
Courtesy of Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Health Sciences University
University Hospital, completed in Augusta in 1915, was built for the Medical Department of UGA (later Georgia Health Sciences University) with the city's backing.
Courtesy of Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Health Sciences University
The Newton Building, on the campus of the Medical College of Georgia (later Georgia Health Sciences University) in Augusta, was occupied by the college from 1913 until 1956. The structure was demolished in 1960.
Courtesy of Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Health Sciences University
University Hospital, part of Georgia Health Sciences University in Augusta, was expanded in the mid-1930s as part of an effort to restore the good rating of the college and its membership in the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Courtesy of Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Health Sciences University
G. Lombard Kelly served as dean of the Medical College of Georgia (later Georgia Health Sciences University) from 1934 until 1950, and as the college's first president from 1950 to 1953.
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The Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital in Augusta, built by the state for the Medical College of Georgia (later Georgia Health Sciences University), opened in June 1956 with six buildings.
Courtesy of Historical Collections and Archives, Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library, Georgia Health Sciences University
Annie L. McPheeters, pictured circa 1940, was appointed assistant librarian at the Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta in 1934. McPheeters was responsible for developing the library's core Negro History Collection, housed today at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Photograph by Lane Brothers
Annie L. Watters (McPheeters), pictured in 1934, stands beside the booktruck that she used as a librarian in Greenville, South Carolina. That same year she arrived at the Auburn Branch of the Atlanta Public Library, where she became one of the city's first African American professional librarians.
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Annie L. Watters (McPheeters) stands outside the Auburn Branch of the Atlanta Public Library, circa 1938. McPheeters worked at the Auburn Branch from 1934 until 1949, during which time she launched and expanded the Negro History Collection, housed today at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
Atlanta librarian Annie L. McPheeters (center), pictured circa 1955, participates in a Friends of the Library Broadcast on WERD radio. With her are Ernestine Brazeal (left), president of Friends of the Library, and Vivian Beavers, member of Friends of the Library.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
Participants in the Georgia Project attend a summer exchange program in 1998 at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. The Georgia Project was established in 1997 to provide more effective bilingual education to Latino students in the Dalton school system.Reprinted by permission of Erwin Mitchell.
Teachers from Dalton visited Monterrey, Mexico, to improve their understanding of Mexican culture and educational practices as part of the Georgia Project, a teacher exchange program founded in Dalton in 1997.Reprinted by permission of Erwin Mitchell.
Erwin Mitchell visits elementary students in 2000 at Roan Street School in Dalton. In 1997 Mitchell founded the Georgia Project, an innovative teacher exchange program that provided training opportunities for Dalton educators working in bilingual classrooms until 2007.Reprinted by permission of Christopher Lancette.
The administrative campus of Georgia Northwestern Technical College is located in Rome, in Floyd County. The college's service delivery area includes Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Polk, and Walker counties.
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The Walker County campus of Georgia Northwestern Technical College, formerly known as Northwestern Technical College, is located in Rock Spring. The campus opened in 1966 as the Walker County Area Vocational-Technical School.
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The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, pictured in 1994, is located on the west end of the Sweet Auburn historic district in Atlanta. The library offers reference and archival collections dedicated to African American culture and history.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
The Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta, pictured circa 1935, opened in 1921 and closed in 1959. It was the city's first public library branch for African Americans.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
Pictured circa 1960, the West Hunter Branch of Atlanta's public library system opened in 1949, during the era of public segregation, to serve African American patrons. All the city's libraries were integrated in 1959.
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The Negro History Collection is pictured in 1949 at the West Hunter Branch of the Atlanta Public Library. Renamed the Samuel W. Williams Collection on Black America in 1971, the collection today forms the core archive at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Photograph by Lane Brothers
Eva Thomas (far left), a public school teacher, leads a story hour program for children in 1944, outside the Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta. The story hour was a collaborative project between the Atlanta Public Library and the Atlanta Board of Education.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
The dedication ceremony for the Samuel W. Williams Collection on Black America was held on November 21, 1971, at the Carnegie Library building in downtown Atlanta. Formerly known as the Negro History Collection, the archive is housed today at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.
Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
A potter demonstrates his craft to schoolchildren at Historic Westville, a living history museum in west Georgia. The village of Westville opened in 1970 and depicts an 1850s community.
Courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development.
The Tullie Smith Farm, located on the the grounds of the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, re-creates a working farm from the 1840s.
Image from Jim Bowen
A blacksmith is heating iron over forge at Historic Westville, a living history museum in west Georgia.
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Forbes Hall, on the campus of Thomas University in Thomasville, houses the president's office, as well as the administration and athletic offices. The building originally served as the main house of Birdwood Plantation, which was built in 1932 as a winter resort for W. Cameron Forbes, a U.S. ambassador to Japan.
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W. Cameron Forbes, a U.S. ambassador to Japan and one-time governor of the Philippines, established Birdwood Plantation in Thomas County in 1932. During the 1950s his plantation was converted into Birdwood College, which later became Thomas University.
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Students attend class at Birdwood College, which later became Thomas University, in Thomasville during the 1960s. Enrollment at Birdwood College declined during this decade due to its lack of accreditation and limited academic offerings.
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J. Harley Chapman founded Birdwood College, a school originally affiliated with the Primitive Baptist denomination, in Thomasville in 1950, and classes began four years later. Known today as Thomas University, the school is a nonsectarian, private, and independent institution offering associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees.
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Graduates of Birdwood College are pictured in the 1960s. The college, founded in Thomasville by Primitive Baptists, opened in 1954 and operated until 1977, when the school became a nonsectarian institution called Thomas County Community College. By 2000 the college had evolved into Thomas University.
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The Birdwood Annex (left) is attached to Forbes Hall, the administration building on the campus of Thomas University in Thomasville. The annex houses faculty offices, as well as the office for institutional advancement.
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Students at Thomas University in Thomasville are pictured circa 2008. The university's student body comes primarily from south Georgia and north Florida to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees at the private institution.
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The 634-acre campus of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro features landscaped lawns, pine forests, and two lakes. Walkways wind through the campus and connect the main academic buildings.
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An early sketch, circa 1850, of the University of Georgia in Athens depicts the Franklin College quadrangle as seen from the southwest across Broad Street. The architecture of the campus was modeled after that of Yale University in Connecticut, the alma mater of Abraham Baldwin, UGA's first president.
Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville, circa 1913. The college, known today as Georgia College and State University, was founded in 1889. The campus employs a quadrangle design on land originally used for a state prison.
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Spelman Seminary in Atlanta, pictured circa 1912-13, was founded in 1881 and became Spelman College in 1924. Five years later, the Atlanta University Center formed, joining the school with other African American institutions in the city.
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Located in Rabun County, in north Georgia, the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School is one of the largest college-preparatory boarding schools in the South.
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Just after World War I (1917-18) the Rabun Gap school created the Farm Family Settlement Program. Entire families lived at Rabun Gap; the men learned agriculture, the women learned homemaking and health care, and the children attended school. The Speed family is pictured.
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Rabun Gap Industrial School students gather for a photograph outside the school's first building circa 1910. The building was designed by Atlanta architect Haralson Bleckley (son of Rabun County native and judge Logan Bleckley).
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Andrew Jackson Ritchie and his wife, Addie Corn Ritchie, founded the Rabun Gap Industrial School in 1905 to serve poor children in the area.
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A couple of Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School students direct a wagon with mules in the late 1920s. The Coit boys' dormitory can be seen in the background.
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The theme for Georgia Archives Month, 2009, was "Quench Your Thirst for History." Sponsored by the Society of Georgia Archivists, Georgia Archives Month is held each October and celebrated with a variety of exhibitions and programs at archives, libraries, and museums around the state.
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The Society of Georgia Archivists selected the theme "Sweet Tea and Southern Breezes" for Georgia Archives Month in 2014. The monthlong event is held each October and highlights the work and holdings of archives around the state.
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Georgia Archives Month, held each year in October, is a celebration of the state's preserved historical record and is sponsored by the Society of Georgia Archivists. The theme for 2010 was "Travel Back in Time."
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Carroll Technical Institute opened in Carrollton in 1968 and retained that name until 2000, when it became West Central Technical College. In 2009 the college merged with West Georgia Technical College.
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The LaGrange campus of West Georgia Technical College is located in LaGrange, the seat of Troup County. The campus opened in 1966 as the Troup County Area Vocational-Technical School.
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A representative from Quick Start, a nationally recognized program offering free workforce training to new and exisiting companies in Georgia, makes a presentation to business leaders. Quick Start's services help to attract new investment and job creation in the state.
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Columbus Technical College serves Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Quitman, and Stewart counties. The school's most popular programs are in health sciences, including nursing, pharmacy technology, and dental assisting.
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The Appalachian campus of Chattahoochee Technical College, formerly known as Appalachian Technical College, is located in Jasper. The campus opened in 1967 as the Pickens Area Vocational-Technical School.
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The administrative campus of Chattahoochee Technical College, the largest college in the Technical College System of Georgia, is located in Marietta, in Cobb County. The college's service delivery area covers Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Gilmer, Paulding, and Pickens counties.
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The North Metro campus of Chattahoochee Technical College, formerly known as North Metro Technical College, is located in Bartow County. The campus opened in 1985 to serve northwest Atlanta.
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The Warner Robins campus, pictured circa 2007, serves as the administrative campus of Central Georgia Technical College, following the merger between Central Georgia Tech and Middle Georgia Technical College in 2013.
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The Macon campus of Central Georgia Technical College is pictured circa 2007. In 2013 Central Georgia Tech merged with Middle Georgia Technical College to create an institution with a service delivery area of eleven counties.
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The only technical school in Georgia to win the U.S. Secretary of Education's Award of Excellence, Augusta Technical College is especially strong in the areas of computer systems networking and emergency medical technology.
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