View the overview webinar slides
April 25 |
Campus Plan Updates instructions released |
May 8 |
Campus Plan Updates webinar |
May 14 |
Strategy Survey Available |
June 26 |
Validated Data distributed to Campuses Deadline for Optional Draft Review |
Strategy Survey Closes Optional Reviews returned to campuses |
October 11 |
Update reports due to System Office |
December 1 |
Reports submitted to Governor's Office |
The CCG Campus Plan Updates are intended to be an opportunity for your institution to reflect on your past work and plan for next steps. Updates are living documents rooted in your institutional mission and student body profile and reflecting the work that will most impact your goals for improved student success. It is our intention for updates to be a part of a campus planning process that helps to identify success and challenges and communicates these to peers at institutions across the University System
For 2019, the Campus Plan Updates retain the reporting structure from the previous three years, with a few simplifications. The 2018 update has two sections:
Together these elements will help to paint a comprehensive picture of the varied and productive work in place on our campuses.
NEW FOR 2019What's New for 2019 |
part 1CAMPUS PLAN STRATEGY SURVEY |
part 2NARRATIVE OVERVIEW |
part 3SUBMITTING YOUR UPDATE |
For the 2017 and 2018, the System Office provided institutions with data workbooks from the Academic Data Collection across a range of common indicators to supplement institutional reporting. For 2019, the System is providing a subset of these as data visualizations and other elements as a data file. It is hoped that the data visualizations will allow you to investigate your institution’s status and progress and share this across your campus in a more readily digestible form.
The Strategy Survey is updated for 2019, with more targeted questions about your work. The survey has also been reduced in scope overall.
The 2019 Updates features a section on the Momentum Year that aligns with institutional reporting for the budgetary process around the Momentum Year.
As we continue to foster institutional networks for success, for 2019 we’re asking for institutions to let us know who is on their Student Success and Completion team.
For 2019, we are again asking campuses to explicitly link the work they are highlighting in their reports to the priorities that emerge from the review of the institutional mission and student body profile. Institutions are asked to briefly describe how successfully implementing a strategy will achieve a high priority, high impact objective highlighted in their reflection.
High priority: a high priority strategy is one that addresses an immediate and clearly identified need on your campus, or is closely aligned with your institutional mission or student body. High priority strategies should be those that would be first to be addressed in considerations of allocation of resources and attention on campus
High impact: a high impact strategy is one that affects (or has the demonstrated potential to affect) a large number of students, affects a more limited number of students in a critical area or has the demonstrated potential to have significant demonstrated impact on students regardless of scale. These decisions should be aligned with the institution’s mission and its student body profile.
This brief survey is an opportunity for you to identify all of the high-impact strategies you are pursuing. This first part of the update report enables the System Office to collect aggregate information about strategies that are being used across the. The survey is available online at http://completecollegegeorgia.org/survey2019 beginning May 8, and closing July 19. The survey is more detailed this year in order to provide a more complete picture of work at the campus level. You can save, exit, and return to the survey prior to reviewing and submitting your response. Each campus will have a single logon to the survey, distributed to the principal CCG contact (as identified by the institutional CCG team).
Reports should include the institutional profile, a summary of each of your high impact, high priority completion strategies, including a general description of the activity, a summary of activities undertaken in the 2018-2019 academic year and their results, and any lessons you have learned about this activity this year. Your update may be structured in a manner similar to previous year’s if that is most convenient, but you are equally invited to report in a fashion that supports your internal needs.
Provide a brief overview of your institutional mission and student body profile. Please briefly describe enrollment trends, demographics (for example, % Pell grant-eligible, % first-generation college students, % adult learners), and how your institutional mission influences your completion work’s key priorities.
Discuss the major actions undertaken as part of your Momentum Year plan. What components are still in the development or implementation phases? In addition to other elements, please describe strategy taken in supporting students making a purposeful choice of a program or focus? Discuss any early results to date.
Many of your existing strategies will be included in your Momentum Year work. For those that are not, provide a general overview and description of each high priority, high impact activity, a summary of the work your institution has undertaken on each this past year, the results or outcomes of this work, your long-term goal for this strategy and any observations of lessons you have learned about this activity this year. Your update may be structured in a manner similar to previous year’s if that is most convenient, but you are equally invited to report in a fashion that supports your internal needs.
What strategies and activities have been most successful? What have been least effective? How has your institution made adjustments to your completion activities over the past year? What are your plans for the coming year?
Please provide the names and titles for the individuals on your campus responsible for implementing, monitoring, and evaluating your Student Success and Completion Strategies.
Institutions are not limited in the number of strategies they may report on, but we do ask that institutions provide sufficient reporting to give a meaningful sense of what is underway on campus while focusing on those activities that are both high impact and high priority. We encourage you to be mindful of the intent of the Updates to highlight work that you are doing that has potential to improve the capacity of campuses across the system. Each activity or strategy should be reported separately. Activities that fall under a common goal or functional area can be arranged together, but each discrete strategy or activity should be discussed independently where possible.
While campuses are encouraged to report on as many strategies and activities that meet the criteria of being high priority and high impact a necessary, we are encouraging limits on overall reporting. We ask that institutions limit the length of their updates to no more than 10 pages, not counting appendices.
Campus Plan Strategy Surveys should be completed online. Narrative reports may be submitted beginning June 1 here as a Microsoft Word file. Files not submitted through the CCG website should be sent via email to CCG@usg.edu. Questions on your update can be directed to Jonathan Watts Hull at jonathan.hull@usg.edu, 404-962-3129.