Timeline
1964 - Augusta Area Vocational-Technical School, with an original planned capacity of 350 students in 10 programs, was established by the Georgia State Board of Education in conjunction with the Richmond County Board of Education.
1963 - The Richmond Area Vocational School was established with a planned capacity of 250 students in 10 programs.
1966 - The two schools were combined to form Augusta Area Technical School, which soon expanded to three additional sites.
1981 - With the exception of the health occupations programs, which remained in a facility on Walton Way, the programs offered by Augusta Area Technical School were moved to one campus located off of Deans Bridge Road. By this time, the school was offering more than 30 diploma programs and numerous short-term courses.
1984 - The first students graduated with an associate degree of applied technology.
1987 - Augusta Area Technical School became a state school operated by the Georgia State Board of Technical and Adult Education. The State Board changed the school name to Augusta Technical Institute. The Augusta Technical Institute Foundation was founded to promote higher education at Augusta Technical Institute by acquiring and administering cash, grants, and other funds to support scholarships, building projects, and other programs at Augusta Technical Institute.
1990 - Augusta Technical Institute became Augusta’s leading provider of literacy education when the school accepted responsibility for the Office of Adult Literacy located on Broad Street.
1991 - Allied Health programs moved to the Deans Bridge Road campus when construction was completed on a new Health Sciences building.
1995 - The Augusta Technical Institute Foundation launched The Power To Be Campaign, a major gifts campaign to provide furnishings and equipment for Augusta Technical Institute’s Thomson/McDuffie and Waynesboro/Burke Campuses, technology support, and funds for future land acquisition and capital construction.
1996 - Construction began on the Thomson/McDuffie Campus of Augusta Technical Institute. Augusta Technical Institute enrollment for the Fall Quarter 1996 totaled over 2,400 credit students enrolled in associate degree, diploma, and technical certificate of credit programs and over 3,000 students in adult literacy, continuing education, and non-credit courses/programs.
1997 - Plans were announced for the Waynesboro/Burke Campus. The Office of Adult Literacy was moved to the Augusta Campus. The Thomson/McDuffie Campus opened with 184 students in 10 credit programs.
1999 - Construction began on the Waynesboro/Burke Campus of Augusta Technical Institute. Plans for the Student Services Classroom Building were announced for the Augusta Campus.
2000 - Augusta Technical Institute’s name becomes Augusta Technical College. The Waynesboro/Burke Campus of Augusta Technical College opens.
2001 - Groundbreaking for new Student Services Building on December 4, 2001.
2002 - Dedication of the 900 building to Thelma “T” Ray Allgood.
2003 - The New Student Services and Classroom Buildings open.
2004 - The dedication of the Student Services/Classroom Building was held on April 29, 2004.