Middle Georgia State University buries time capsules to mark milestone

Ceremonies held across campuses to preserve artifacts from 2025–2026 academic year

Middle Georgia State University is preserving a moment in time, burying capsules across its campuses filled with artifacts from today for students to rediscover decades from now.

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –To commemorate the first year of a second decade as a University, Middle Georgia State hosted several ceremonies to bury the university’s first-ever time capsules.  

Forty years from now, Middle Georgia State University students and staff will dig up the campus capsules that will showcase how far the university as come. The capsules contain a collection of artifacts capturing the spirit and daily life of the 2025-2026 academic year, including campus memorabilia, academic work, and items representing current regional trends.  

Michael Stewart, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs for the Macon campus, says burying these campus treasures will have a lasting impact on the university for years to come. “I just hope they realize the legacy this university has for community, not just the Macon community, but the Middle Georgia community. And the people and the shoulders that they stand on, to get to that point and the people that have helped get to that point forty, fifty years from now,” said Stewart.

Doug Rizer, Campus and Community Director for the Warner Robins campus, says he hopes many years from now, students will understand what those before them did for their education. “Our goal is that even as we look into the future, we will grow and have even more Houston County participation in our university, and I look forward to it. Hopefully, it will be interesting to see in forty years, to see what life is like when that fifty-year anniversary comes around, so it’s exciting,” said Rizer.

Middle Georgia state also held other ceremonies in Cochran, Eastman, and Dublin.