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Founded in 1785, the University of Georgia awarded its first graduate degree, a Master of Arts, nearly a century later in 1870. The first Master of Arts curriculum was put in place in 1868 during the administration of Chancellor Andrew A. Lipscomb, and the first graduate degrees were awarded in 1870 to Washington Dessau, future chancellor Walter Barnard Hill, and Burgess Smith. [5]
For the first 16 years of the school's history, the University of Georgia only existed on paper. [22] By the new century, a committee was appointed to find suitable land to establish a campus. Committee member John Milledge purchased 633 acres of land on the west bank of the Oconee River and immediately gave it to the university.
UGA alumnus Charles S. Sanford Jr. gave the largest donation for the building that bears his family’s name. Caldwell Hall was built in 1981. [42] The classroom building is named for Harmon W. Caldwell, a UGA alumnus who served as university president from 1948 to 1964 and chancellor of the University System of Georgia from 1948 to 1964. [43]
The title of oldest public university in the United States is claimed by three universities: the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the College of William and Mary. Each has a distinct basis for the claim: North Carolina being the first to hold classes and graduate students as a public institution ...
In 1915, Grady was founded as a school of journalism by Steadman Vincent Sanford, a young professor who later as president (1932–35) and chancellor (1935–45) of the University System of Georgia, was the architect of the modern University of Georgia. Classes were first held in the Academic Building near the university's iconic Arch just off ...
As of 2022, there were 98 undergraduates and 169 graduate/professionals enrolled at UGA who identified as student veterans, reserve or active duty. Three other Georgia schools also made the top 50 ...
Abraham Baldwin, Patriot and Founding Father, a founder and first president of the University of Georgia, representative to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, creating the United States of America, signer of the U.S. Constitution, and President pro tempore of the United States Senate Lyman Hall, physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, Governor ...
The University of Georgia would often be referred to as Franklin College for the next 50 years. Now known as Old College, it is the oldest building on the campus and has been used for many purposes over the years, including as a dormitory and boarding house space, classrooms, fortification and a safe harbor for the U.S. Navy.