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Green Zone training is offered to all faculty and staff to learn more about our military- connected student population. The military-connected student population is 12-14% of our total student population at Georgia Southern University.

College-wide intentional Career Readiness curriculum built into non-Core foundation courses across Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes with specific course-based assessments for credit to enable students to engage with a professional development arc beginning during their first year. This is paired with an Opt-In Career Readiness co-curricular certification program.

As part of the Mental Health Initiative by the University System of Georgia, the Helping Eagles Recognize Distress and Offer Support was created by a collaborative effort involving the Counseling Center, Athletics, Human Resources, Office of the Dean of Students, Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Office of Student Wellness & Health Promotion, University Communications and Marketing, University Housing, and University Police. 

Student engagement online platform that captures and promotes student events, organizations, community service, and other experiential opportunities 

The overarching focus for The Eagle Experience is to provide an experience that creates a successful transition for incoming students and tightly integrates key university Divisions working collaboratively and connecting the social, academic, and support elements of the student experience.

Over the past year, the Associate Provost and Provost’s Faculty Fellow have been expanding on the embedded dual enrollment pilot to include Chatham County schools. The Office of the Provost has established a partnership with the SCCPSS Superintendent's office as well the principles within the Chatham public school system to provide on-site courses where access to our Armstrong campus location would be difficult (due to lack of transportation) or awareness of DE as a viable option (lack of partnership/communication).

Georgia Tech continues its efforts to enhance academic advising through a renewed focus on major selection protocols and how students select and change majors. Georgia Tech students declare a major before admission, and academic advising is primarily major specific. Since undecided/general studies students do not exist on campus, major selection and major change protocols significantly impact the student experience.

Exploring equity in success metrics and expanding access through enhanced support for underserved populations (e.g., first-generation students, transfer students)

Georgia Tech’s curricular analytics efforts are ongoing to study degree programs, identify majors with high program complexity, and develop adjustments designed to lower complexity and accelerate time to degree completion.

The curricular analytics analysis aligns to the Expand Access focus area of the ISP and overlaps with our examination of equity in student success metrics described in Activity 2. 

This project aims to put in place academic interventions for student populations identified as at-risk (i.e. students with multiple early alerts, students on academic warning and probation, students who withdraw frequently)