 Augusta State University students and faculty have a reason to celebrate with a new three-story classroom building, new off-campus housing and a student activities center. University Hall, a $12.6 million building, houses the nursing department, media services, the college of education, the curriculum lab, a telecommunications studio and the writing center.  The campus also has a bright new entrance that allows motorists to enter from Walton Way at Fleming Avenue. The new front features a circular driveway, a picturesque fountain, an area to drop off students and access to other parts of campus.Student enrollment for fall 2010 hit a record high of more than 8,000. The new student center, opened in 2006, includes a fitness center, lounges, Internet cafe and large banquet room. New of student housing is located on a 24-acre lot on Damascus Road, directly across from the First Tee golf course. Named University Village, the $19.5 million project is in a wooded area not far from Wrightsboro Road. It offers 508 students fully-furnished apartments with a clubhouse, a swimming pool, a computer lab, walking trails and picnic areas.AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: 2500 Walton Way; a public institution of the University of Georgia system. It offers more than 50 programs leading to associate, bachelor's, master's and specialist degrees, a paralegal certificate and a cooperative doctoral degree; 737-1400; www.aug.edu. AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: 3200 Augusta Tech Drive; a public, post-secondary institution of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education. The school serves technical education needs and supports economic development of the Central Savannah River Area. Quick Start is the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education's statewide training arm for new and expanding industries in Georgia. Developed as an incentive for companies to locate in Georgia, the Quick Start program is 100 percent state funded. All training services are available at no cost to client companies. Created by state statute in 1967 to provide job-specific training for Georgians to enter the workforce in the state's new and expanding industries, Quick Start has trained over 150,000 new workers for over 1900 Georgia businesses and industries. For more information about Quick Start, call (706) 771-5716, www.augustatech.edu. GEORGIA HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY: 1120 15th St., Augusta, the health sciences university for the University System of Georgia; includes schools of allied health sciences, dentistry, graduate studies, medicine and nursing; 721-2725; http://www.georgiahealth.edu. |
