Georgia Regents May Approve Merger Creating System’s Largest College

The chancellor of the University System of Georgia will recommend that Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College be consolidated, creating the system’s largest institution, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Henry M. (Hank) Huckaby will make the recommendation at a meeting on Tuesday of the Board of Regents, the newspaper reports. The combination of the four-year Georgia State and the two-year Georgia Perimeter would enroll nearly 54,000 students.

If adopted, the proposed merger would be the system’s sixth in two years, undertaken in response to declines in state funding.