Dr. Virginia Carson became President of South Georgia College (SGC) on February 1, 2009 after serving as SGC Interim President since March 1, 2008. Prior to this appointment Dr. Virginia Carson served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Georgia Highlands College (GHC) in Rome since 2001.

            She served as Dean for Academic Services for Georgia Perimeter College’s (GPC) Clarkston, GA, campus from 2000 to 2001. During the 1999-2000 academic year, she was a Fellow of the American Council on Education at Northern Virginia Community College. Dr. Carson previously chaired the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering, also on GPC’s Clarkston campus, where she was Professor of Mathematics.

            Dr. Carson is 2008-2009 President of the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP). She represented Georgia on the Executive Council of the SACS Commission on Colleges and chaired the Georgia SACS Commissioners in 2008. She served as a SACS Commissioner from 2005 to 2008. She had a Fulbright for International Education in Germany in 2004. She was Editor of The AMATYC Review, the semi-annual refereed mathematics journal of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), from 1998 to 2003.

            She is a Rotarian and has served in numerous community organizations including those connected with health and criminal justice and Chambers of Commerce.

            Dr. Carson holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Georgia State University, all in mathematics education.

            Virginia and Francis Carson, a retired engineer, have three adult children and two beautiful granddaughters!