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Located on Central Campus, the Georgia Tech Student Center is dedicated to recreation and socialization for Georgia Tech students. Constructed in 1970, the building initially covered about 100,000 square feet and contained, among other features, a Post Office , cafeteria, ballroom, and one of the only on-campus bowling alleys in the Southeast .
Atlanta during the Civil War, c. 1864 The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia, after the Civil War, believed that ...
Georgia Tech was founded in 1885 and opened in 1888, and the first two graduates matriculated in 1890. Attempts at forming an alumni association had been made since 1896, until a charter was applied for by J. B. McCrary and William H. Glenn on June 28, 1906, and was approved two years later by Fulton County on June 20, 1908.
Business faculty use the facility to research improved human performance in trading environments as well as create new financial service models. [16] The trading floor houses the Quantitative and Computational Finance program. In September 2018, Georgia Tech announced the beginning of the Tech Square Phase III initiative.
Georgia Tech had withdrawn from the Southeastern Conference in January 1964 and had operated as an Independent until 1975 when Georgia Tech joined the Metro Conference. Georgia Tech was admitted to the ACC on April 3, 1978. The ACC has expanded from 8 to 12 members since that time. [191] [192] The institute celebrated its centennial in 1985.
This event placed Georgia Tech among the earliest public universities in the U. S. to offer an architecture degree. By 1912, the Department of Architecture grew to 42 full-time students with three faculty members. [1] By 1930, the Architecture department had 132 full-time students, awarded 20 degrees, and had six full-time with six part-time ...
Over the next decade of his presidency, it became Georgia Tech's highest capital priority due to rapid student body growth. [5] The naming of the Clough Commons was an effort by Campaign Georgia Tech, the institute's fundraising arm, to honor Clough's commitment to undergraduate education and to ensure future students know and appreciate the ...