History
The COE was founded in 1908 by the University Board of Trustees and Chancellor David Barrow as the Peabody College of Education. Its original head was Professor Thomas J. Woofter who had served on the UGA faculty as the Chair of Philosophy and Education since 1903. The school's first building was George Peabody Hall on UGA's North Campus.
In the fall of 1918, the school was the first at UGA to admit women as full-time students.
The school's dean in 1941, Walter Cocking, was fired by Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge in the Cocking affair.
On November 8, 2012 Craig H. Kennedy of Vanderbilt University was named dean of UGA’s College of Education by Jere Morehead, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
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