Refining/Maintaining

Over the past year, the Office of First and Second Year Experience in collaboration with the First and Second Year Advisory Team, Office of Career and Professional Development, and the Office of Global Engagement redesigned course content for CORE 2000 to move the course to a co-requisite model for Core courses to better focus on elements of Inform, Discern, & Affirm, reflections on academic mindset, challenges to perseverance, and highlight the importance of transitions through college (rather than just into college—i.e., meaningful choices in majors, minors, co-curricular engagements,

Provide more data and direction to department chairs and deans regarding student course needs.

Developing internal RPA tools across divisions to streamline the creation of Academic Improvement Plans (AIPs) by the Academic Success Center for students on Academic Intervention (AI); streamline the creation of documents (GPA calculation forms and plans) required for Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Appeals in the Office of Financial Aid.

Provide real-time guided Change of Major process for students aided by low-level AI to help them see the implications of a change and direct them to areas in first-generation friendly language to move to the best-fit major. 

Georgia Tech’s Big Idea from Momentum Summit IV in 2021 was to link our Momentum work with our Institute Strategic Plan (ISP) by establishing an internal mini-grant program—the Amplify Momentum Project or GT-AMP.  Evaluating the mini-grant projects and examining their impact was a key component of our 2023 Momentum plan.

Meeting with undecided students at orientation to provide supports early in the process and explain implications of purposeful choice.

• CETL will create and sustain faculty book talks, workshops, and faculty learning communities to promote growth mindset, purpose through course redesign or enhancements.  
• IESI: Faculty will examine faculty mindset survey and area F course for Mindset, Purpose, or High Impact Practices. 

CDAC (now referred to as Career Services) offers all students the opportunity to receive career counseling and coaching to assist them with identifying and reaching their career readiness goals. All students are provided access to the Mastering Career Readiness modules in D2L to begin taking steps towards their career and professional development through self-assessment and career exploration.

The First-Year Seminar (FYS), GGC 1000, is a 1-credit course that aims to support and increase the academic and personal success of GGC’s first-year students. This class covers subjects such as campus resources, study skills, time management, growth mindset, and major and career exploration. For students with 30 or fewer credits, it counts towards degree requirements and can substitute for one physical education activity course.

Online Advising and Mentoring Tools: Grizzly Peer Mentoring (Grizzly Mentor Collective) and EAB Navigate