EDUCATION Photo courtesy University of West Georgia
At UWG’s graduation in December 2012, the nursing program had the largest graduation group since it began in Newnan with 54 graduates. Six of those were males, notes UWG Newnan campus director Cathy Wright. They are, from left, Charles Peterson, Van Hill, James Preston, Chad Sise, Martell Hawkins and Thomas Bohner.
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TOP LEFT: The old Newnan Hospital on Jackson Street will be transformed into the Newnan campus of the University of West Georgia, now housed in facilities in Shenandoah Industrial Park.
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These renovations will allow more nurses and industry professionals to be trained and to work. The new educational facility will have more nursing labs, patient simulators, classrooms, space for a large lecture hall, library, a food court, bookstore, and administrative and faculty offices. It will also allow for more dualenrollment opportunities for high school students. Under the renovation plan, the Newnan Hospital Board is donating all the land and also giving about $4.2 million toward the project. Coweta County is giving slightly more than $500,000 over a 10-year period. Once the project is completed, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents will in turn buy the complex for $5 million. The Board of Regents voted in early 2013 to approve purchasing the property at 80 Jackson St., and the Newnan City Council approved contracts to move the project forward soon after.
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