Piloting

This project continues to build on Momentum Year activities, improving success rates in gateway courses, particularly targeting ENGL 1101 courses. Various strategies will be employed to improve student success rates, including curriculum redesign, innovative pedagogical strategies, mindset activities.

AMSC will implement pre, real-time, and post semester strategies to improve student retention.  Retention strategies will be targeted based on student type, age group (traditional vs. adult learners), gender, first generation, and enrollment status (full-time vs. part-time).  Hanover Research has completed a study to identify factors that impact student retention at AMSC.

This project involves process mapping to identify and remove process barriers that prohibit students from graduating within 150% of expected time to completion.  Complete College America (CCA) will conduct a process mapping analysis of AMSC’s admissions and retention processes. Based on the outcomes of this analysis, AMSC will address CCA recommendations for process improvements and monitor the impact on student progression and completion.

Gateway courses have the lowest pass rates. This is particularly difficult for new freshman because it stifles their momentum and motivation to successfully past their first two semester classes and avoid academic warning and/or probation, which also impacts their ability to meet financial aid academic requirements.

This project focuses on increasing student admission (access), increasing semester-to-semester persistence, reducing time to graduation, increasing course pass rates, and ultimately increasing the number of completions.

ABAC has reliable data on its Momentum initiatives and retention and graduation rates (internal tracking, USG Qlik, and IPEDS). The top data gaps for ABAC identified during the Momentum VI Summit include:

Engage faculty in development of best practices for improving student success outcomes in lower-level math courses.  The goal is to increase completion of Quantitative Skills courses in the first year.

Encourage students to use of Stepping Blocks data to better understand their career path and the salary and job opportunities associated with this choice.

In freshmen orientation classes each 1^st-year student will be required to complete an assignment designed to encourage the use of stepping blocks data.  Based on an academic major of interest, students will research common jobs associated with the major as well as the job market and the salaries associated with these positions.

Pilot introduction of AI enhanced Chat Bot for academic support in large sections of the core curriculum.

Georgia State University was one of the 1^st institutions in the country to use an AI-Enhanced Chatbot to address issues of summer melt for new students and continuous enrollment for continuing students. .[1] This project expands the use of this technology to the classroom to increase successful completion of the class.

Offer peer tutoring for students enrolled in common/core courses (i.e. Math, Science and Humanities).