East Georgia State College

The reorganization of retention/advising is almost complete. It includes:

i) Restructuration of advising and retention staffs: The Director of Retention is becoming the Director of Student Success, and we are recruiting an Assistant Director. All advisors and student success coaches will all have the same title – Student Success Coach – but they will all do a little of both roles.

Using predictive modeling to determine fall and spring semester enrollment. This requires two sets of models that must be joined together. The first set will focus on the predicted retention of currently enrolled students and the second set will focus on the enrollment of new applications.

Student Learning Communities

We would like to set up inclusive access for all the digital content used as textbook for all sections that require the purchase of a textbook. Inclusive Access, also known as automatic textbook billing, is a sales model for college textbooks. Inclusive access allows for the digital content to be delivered to students by the first day of class. Students have a period to “opt out” before they are billed through their tuition and fees.

Incorporate Success Coach workshops within the academic classrooms to improve student success.

To provide another option for students to take less credit hours and perform better academically, but still graduate in two years. See two attachments: Two-Year (four semesters) and Two-Year (Six semesters).

EGSC Faculty and staff have implemented growth mindset activities and strategies for several years. However, there is no process to report these activities, and their assessment plan and results.

EGSC Faculty have implemented High Impacts Practices (HIPs) activities in their classroom for several years. However, there is no process to report these activities, and their assessment plan and results.

Use curricularanalytics.org platform to analyze EGSC’s current academic programs to identify courses that create curricular bottlenecks and formulate strategies to improve course sequencing and/or potential courses where additional student academic support will be needed.