Organization
The Board consists of 18 voting members, serving seven-year terms. The Governor appoints, subject to Senate confirmation, one from each Congressional district and five at-large members.
The Board appoints a chief executive for the system, known as a chancellor. Hank Huckaby became the 12th Chancellor in 2011.
Previous chancellors include Charles Melton Snelling (1932–1933), Steadman Vincent Sanford (1935-1945), Harmon White Caldwell (1948-1964), and Erroll B. Davis, Jr. (2006-2011).
Each individual institution has its own President and senior staff. The system includes the University of Georgia, Fort Valley State University a historically black land grant college, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography which specializes in coastal and marine environments, Georgia Institute of Technology which has a strong emphasis in technology and engineering, Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly the Medical College of Georgia), and Georgia Public Library Service, which distributes state funding to the 61 public library systems that operate 385 branches across the state.
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