New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political rights it measures.
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia (commonly referred to as UGA or simply Georgia) is an American land-grant university and sea grant research university with its primary campus located on a 759-acre (3.07 km2) campus in Athens, Georgia, US. It is the flagship university of the state of Georgia. The university is ranked 20th overall among all public national universities in the current 2014 U.S. News & World Report rankings and consistently ranks within the top 200 universities worldwide across numerous publications. UGA is classified as a ‘Research University/Very High Activity’, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University of Georgia is a part of the University System of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Founded in 1785 as the United States’s first state-chartered university, it is the oldest and largest of Georgia’s institutions of higher learning and along with the College of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill claims the title of the oldest public university in the United States. The university’s historic North Campus is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district.
The university offers over 140 degree programs in a wide array of disciplines. Consisting of thirteen libraries spread across multiple campuses, UGA Libraries contains a total of 4.7 million volumes and one of nation’s largest map collections. The University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries.
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Assistant Professor of Food and Nutrition, University of Georgia
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Associate Professor of Tree Physiology and Forest Ecology, University of Georgia
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Associate Professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia
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Professor of Journalism, University of Georgia
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Georgia
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Visiting Scholar, University of Georgia
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Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Georgia
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Director, Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS); Associate Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
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Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Georgia
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Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Georgia
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Associate Director of Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia
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Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of Georgia
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Professor of Entomology, University of Georgia
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia