History
The Board was organized on January 1, 1932, to create centralized control over all member institutions.
The Board has been criticized in the past on several points, such as shortchanging smaller schools, ignoring opinions of faculty and students, forcing almost all schools to change name in 1996, and for forcing the system from quarters to semesters in 1998.
In 2009 The Georgia NAACP filed a lawsuit that claims the University System of Georgia and Board of Regents have methodically shortchanged its three public black colleges and has violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 14th Amendment.
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