East Georgia State College

As an access institution, we are offering an alternative pathway for students who may have faced challenges resulting in their withdrawal from a course. This provides a revised roadmap to completion, depending on course rotation.

Redesign content and format to improve transition experience for students and increase student success and retention

Update the curriculum maps for the 7 academic degrees offered by EGSC to encompass Fall, Spring and Summer semesters with a redesign of the maps to make them more engaging to students.

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.