July 20, 2009

Reimagining the 21st-Century Land-Grant University

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Kendrick Brinson for The Chronicle

Jason Jordan, a project coordinator for the U. of Georgia's Archway Partnership, makes notes about Sandersville's historic jail as part of an effort to promote cultural tourism in Washington County, Ga.

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Kendrick Brinson for The Chronicle

Jason Jordan, a project coordinator for the U. of Georgia's Archway Partnership, makes notes about Sandersville's historic jail as part of an effort to promote cultural tourism in Washington County, Ga.

By Karin Fischer

Sandersville, Ga.

For many people at the University of Georgia, this bucolic town in the center of the state is, at most, a way station en route to the annual football showdown with the University of Florida, where the Dairy Lane's peach shakes tempt carloads of Bulldog faithful to slow down and stretch their legs.

But a more robust relationship between the state's flagship research university and the town of 6,200 has begun to flourish. Over the last two years, University of Georgia students and

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