FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Contact: Robert Preston, Jr.,
912.260.4276
robert.preston@sgc.edu
SGC to celebrate inauguration of Dr. Virginia Carson
On
Thursday, April 23, the South Georgia College community will celebrate the
inauguration of its newly-appointed president, Dr. Virginia Carson.
After serving SGC as interim president since March 1, 2008, the University
System of Georgia Board of Regents dropped the “interim” from Dr. Carson’s
title on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. The inauguration ceremony will be held on
Thursday, April 23 at 2 p.m. in Peterson Hall’s McGouirk Auditorium.
In order to celebrate the inauguration, several community events are taking
place that week at South Georgia College. Beginning Monday, April 20, the
first of a host of activities will begin, and will continue throughout the
week. Details of the week’s events will be released closer to the
inauguration date.
Dr. Carson, a Macon native, was vice president for academic affairs at
Georgia Highlands College in Rome, a position she had held since 2001, when
she was called on to serve as interim president. She previously served as
dean of academic services for Georgia Perimeter College’s (GPC) Clarkston,
Ga., campus from 2000 to 2001. Prior to this appointment, Carson served as
chair of the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering, also
on GPC’s Clarkston campus. Her years as a math professor at GPC (formerly
DeKalb College) extend back to 1982.
Dr. Carson spent the 1999-2000 academic year as an American Council on
Education (ACE) Fellow at Northern Virginia Community College, in Annandale,
Va., under the direction of President Belle S. Wheelan, who is now president
of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on
Colleges. In 2004, she was chosen to participate in a Fulbright
International Education Seminar in Germany.
Dr. Carson is president of the National Association of Community College
Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP). Until 2009, she represented Georgia on
the executive council of the SACS Commission on Colleges and served as state
chair of the Georgia SACS commissioners. Carson edited the American
Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Review, a refereed
mathematics journal, from 1998 to 2003.
Dr. Carson is a product of the University System of Georgia. She holds an
undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, and a M.Ed. and Ph.D.
in mathematics education from Georgia State University.
Visit our Inauguration Web
Site.
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About South Georgia College
South Georgia College (www.sgc.edu)
was founded in 1906 and is a two-year institution in the University System
of Georgia. Located in Douglas, Ga., the college's environment gives
students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close
collaboration with faculty.
