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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.

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West Georgia College, Risk Management records

 Collection
Identifier: UA-0003-0204
Overview Two West Georgia College documents, created in the early 1990s, addressing risk factors at the college. The Status of Risk Management at West Georgia College (1991), was designed to be a point of departure for West Georgia College's efforts to implement pro-active risk management. The West Georgia College Loss Control Manual (1993) was a handbook distributed to college management as an aide to assist in the task of managing...
Dates: 1991 - 1993