State University of West Georgia
Dates
- Existence: 19960612 - 2005
Parallel Names
- Georgia. State University of West Georgia
- UWG
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 2 Collections and/or Records:
Constructs [serial]
This collection contains issues of Constructs, a State University of West Georgia's College of Arts and Sciences serial, published between 1999 and 2002.
Department of History records (bulk 1990-2000)
This collection contains the records of the Department of History at West Georgia College and, later, the State University of West Georgia. Department of History.