University of North Georgia President Bonita Jacobs will spend this week in Vienna, Austria, where she plans to talk about the university’s 2013 consolidation as a panelist on trends in education during the International Association of Presidents triennial conference July 5-8. “I was honored to be asked to serve on the panel to discuss innovative trends in higher education,” Jacobs wrote in an email to The Times Friday. “The University System of Georgia is unparalleled in its approach to institutional consolidations in the United States, but mergers have taken place in many countries around the world with varying degrees of success.