[1] The Board marked the first period that public institutions of higher education were governed and managed under a sole authority.
Today the Board of Regents is composed of 19 members, five of whom are appointed from the state-at-large, and one from each of the state’s 14 congressional districts.
In fiscal year 2003, the Board dispensed $1,697,287,628 of funding, authorized by the Georgia General Assembly.
Former Georgia Governor and United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue became the 14th Chancellor in 2022.
[5] Previous chancellors include Charles Mercer Snelling (1932–1933), Steadman Vincent Sanford (1935-1945),[6] Harmon White Caldwell (1948-1964), Erroll B. Davis Jr. (2006-2011), and Hank Huckaby (2011-2017).