PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS – April 30, 2013 • It has been a little over 100 days since we consolidated January 8th of this year to create Georgia Regents University… • A university that now has nine colleges, and the state’s only public academic health center… with more than 9,500 students, almost 10,000 staff, and over 1,500 faculty… an enterprise with a greater than a one billion dollar budget… • A university with continuing preeminence and leadership in the health sciences and the health professions, and with growing recognition in the liberal arts and STEM disciplines, in business and in education… • In a 1933 radio address to the nation, President Franklin Roosevelt coined the phrase “first hundred days.” • He was referring to the work of the 73rd Congress and the amazing amount of legislation that was passed early in his presidency • Legislation that formed the foundation of the New Deal … a series of economic programs that were intended to address the devastating impact… the Great Depression had on the American economy. • 113 days have passed since the University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the consolidation of Augusta State University and Georgia Health Sciences University.
Page 1 of 22