AU president Keel says school ready for upcoming challenges (Brooks: house, university)

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It's nice to see that the university is enjoying healthy growth. Over half of the incoming freshman class is from outside the Augusta area. Another interesting point is that the university may be planning to replace on the hospital buildings downtown.

While the school’s Riverfront Campus will see the opening of the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center next year, which will house its School of Computer and Cyber Sciences and a Cyber Range, “this is just Phase One,” he said, with room on that campus for two more buildings of similar size.

While MCG is the eighth largest medical school by class size, it has a relatively small faculty supporting, particularly for clinical faculty but officials are trying to change that, Keel said.

“We are making one of the largest recruiting efforts that I think the Medical College of Georgia has ever seen, probably since its founding,” he said.

The university is looking at $160 million to build a new hospital in Columbia County, an effort held up so far by a challenge to its state license to build there, and around $350 million if it replaces a downtown hospital building, Keel said. The university may need more state support to help it grow, he said. The university is planning to ask for $49.5 million for a new College of Science and Mathematics building next year as well.

AU president Keel says school ready for upcoming challenges | The Augusta Chronicle

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Dr. Brooks Keel talked with FOX 54 about the proposed $50 million in bonds for a STEM building for Augusta University undergrad students near the dental college.

If approved, Dr. Keel says this potentially 160,000 square feet building will continue to draw medical professionals to the growing CSRA. "This will create a pipeline of undergraduate students who want to go on to professional and research careers in the biomedical sciences and gives us a better opportunity to recruit the next generation of physicians, nurses, dentists, and researchers and health professionals down the road."

Governor Deal told us that he will propose it at the general assembly which starts next week. Stay with FOX 54 as we will continue to bring you updates.

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