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August 30, 2022 | Spotlight
Hands-on internship designed to educate UGA students about rural economic and community development

Applications now open at Institute of Government for rural scholars

Hands-on internship designed to educate UGA students about rural economic and community development

August 25, 2022 | Spotlight
Rabun County Schools employees recently revised the system’s decades-old accounting handbook as part of their work toward the School Financial Accounting Certificate from the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

UGA program provides training and education for school accounting personnel

When Cindi Dean moved into a managerial position in the finance department at the Rabun County Board of Education four years ago, she saw that some school-level bookkeepers could benefit from extended training. She found just the thing in the School Financial Accounting Personnel certificate program, a recently launched training opportunity from the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

August 22, 2022 | Spotlight
Each summer, the Carl Vinson Institute of Government’s Downtown Renaissance Fellowship program enlists UGA students to envision solutions to building community and place. (Photo by Garrison Taylor)

UGA helping Georgia's rural downtowns experience a renaissance

Faculty, graduate students focused on developing a sense of community