University of Georgia was established in 1785. offers numerous programs of study at the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate levels through the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Social Sciences, the College of Science and Mathematics, the Richards College of Business, the College of Education, the School of Nursing, the Honors College, and the Graduate School. In addition, the university is one of few in the United States to hold a residential, early entrance to college opportunity for high school juniors and seniors, the Advanced Academy of Georgia. Advanced Academy students take college courses and reside on campus under the supervision of a professional residential staff. University of Georgia main campus in Athens, Georgia, covers 605 acres and includes 313 buildings. To its north, the campus adjoins historic downtown Athens, which features many boutiques, restaurants, entertainment, and service businesses. The university covers 4,308 acres in Clarke County and owns a total of 43,261 acres throughout the state. University of Georgia is one of only two public universities in the United States offering a psychology program with a humanistic and transpersonal focus. In 1967 Mike Arons, a student of Abraham Maslow, Paul Ricoeur, and Jim Klee, became chair of the West Georgia psychology department. Jim Thomas, then on the psychology faculty at West Georgia, and others had asked Abraham Maslow to recommend someone to them to initiate a humanistic emphasis there, and Arons was Maslow's recommendation The University of Georgia encompasses 16 colleges and schools that offer a wide range of educational opportunities. UGA's oldest college--the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences--was founded in 1801. The most recent school is the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology, the world's first stand-alone ecology school. Additionally the Faculty of Engineering offers some of UGA's newest interdisciplinary degree programs.
