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Supplemental Updates for University of Georgia - 2025

The University of Georgia continues to invest in additional key student success efforts on enhancing academic support and cultivating an active, engaging learning environment that equips students for success at UGA and beyond. Additional ongoing initiatives include:
• Active Learning Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): UGA’s Active Learning QEP aims to transform undergraduate teaching and learning through instructor development, student preparation, and classroom redesign. 

Academic Coaching (University of Georgia-2025)

UGA students are very well prepared. Ninety-one percent of the admitted Class of 2029 posted an average core high school GPA of 4.0 or higher, with 98% having completed at least one advanced course (such as AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment). Often such high-achieving students have never experienced any kind of failure. But the demanding pace of a research institution like UGA often poses significant and unexpected challenges for our students.

Peer Learning Assistants (University of Georgia-2025)

The Peer Learning Assistants (PLAs) initiative is a cornerstone of UGA’s strategy to strengthen active learning across high-impact classrooms. Through this program, trained undergraduate students are embedded in large-enrollment, introductory and gateway courses, particularly those with historically high DFW rates, to support peer-to-peer instruction and engagement.
PLAs are recruited and trained by the Office for Student Success and Achievement (OSSA), where they develop core competencies in active 

University of Georgia Campus Plan Update 2025

Introduction and Institutional Mission
As the birthplace of public higher education in America, the University of Georgia provides an exceptional teaching and learning environment that fosters student success across a diverse community of learners. Guided by its land- and sea-grant mission, and by its motto, “to teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things,” UGA advances the economic, intellectual, cultural, and environmental well-being of Georgia and the nation.

Supplemental Updates for University of Georgia - 2024

UGA recruits and enrolls undergraduate students with outstanding academic qualifications and lofty expectations for academic performance and post-graduate success. To meet the needs and expectations of these students, UGA has long been focused on excellence in undergraduate education. Evidence of this focus includes a long history of initiatives designed to enhance undergraduate education and increase our already high retention and completion rates. Examples include the following:

Peer Learning Assistants (University of Georgia-2024)

The Peer Learning Assistants (PLAs) initiative is central to UGA’s approach to enhancing the effectiveness of active learning practices in the classroom. This initiative puts trained students in large enrollment, introductory/gateway classes (prioritizing historically higher DFW rates) to facilitate peer instruction. PLAs are hired and receive training through the Office for Student Success and Achievement (OSSA).

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