The Office of Leadership Programs maintains institution-wide responsibility for management, coordination, and development of all Georgia College leadership programs and initiatives. Beyond Georgia College’s core leadership programs, which are directed and administered by the Office of Leadership Programs, the staff works collaboratively with members of GC's faculty and staff to develop affiliate programs. Affiliate Programs are courses and student programs that engage with leadership-related topics, including mentorship, civic engagement, social justice and inclusion, strategic thought, and global citizenship, and have as their goal developing students as citizens and leaders for the public good. Students may review their options and choose from a range of Georgia College’s leadership programs by visiting gcsu.edu/leadership. For questions about curricular and co-curricular leadership experiences, contact the Leadership Office.
Leadership maintains its own independent assessment program
KPIs: Participation in leadership programs
Baseline measure (for each KPI): The previous year’s program: 664 students (2023-24)
Current/most recent data (for each KPI): 1019 students (2024-25) (53% Increase)
Goal or targets (for each KPI): grow participation in Leadership programs
Leadership Georgia College hosted TedXGC; and continued its Leadership Ideas Festival. The Leadership program started publishing the Leadership Forecast, a digest of leadership principles which should be released around January 2026.
The Office of Leadership Programs has been preparing for a submission for the Carnegie Classification in Leadership for the Public Good. This will be submitted in 2026 for 2027. The Office has prepared a proposal to become the Institute for Leadership and the Public Good. The Office of Leadership Programs has also had an abstract accepted to present at the AACU National Meeting in January 2026. Co-presenting will be representatives from Rice University, Eastern Carolina University and East Tennessee State University.
With current interest in programming (53% increase), the biggest challenge has been scaling and staffing this growth. Additional staffing has been provided and subsequently requested for upcoming years.
