More University of Georgia employees are heading back to work on campus later this month.

Phase 2 of the return to campus will begin on Monday, July 20. Supervisors, including administrative faculty, who did not return to campus during Phase 1, employees who perform mission critical/time-sensitive functions who have been working remotely, and the appropriate support personnel needed for those groups are included in this round of returns.

More than 100,000 Georgians have been confirmed to have coronavirus infections, as the number of people currently sick enough with COVID-19 to be hospitalized pushed past 2,000 on Tuesday. 

The mayor of Atlanta said Tuesday that she doesn’t agree with the Georgia governor’s order to mobilize the National Guard in her city as a surge in violence became a political talking point. 

Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency on Monday and authorized the activation of up to 1,000 Guard troops after a weekend of violence in Atlanta left five people dead. One was an 8 year old girl, killed while riding in a car near a Wendy's that was burned after a Black man was shot by a white police officer in the restaurant parking lot last month.

Georgia’s 26 public universities and colleges will mandate campus-wide mask wearing after the state university system reversed itself on Monday. 

The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission recently announced five Arts in Communities award recipients.