Scaling

PACE is a first-year student program that provides intentional interventions through both curricular and co-curricular activities that support academic perseverance and enhance a sense of belonging. Beginning with First Chime, a fun convocation to “ring” in the beginning of the school year, students are connected to faculty members in their focus area and peer mentors to understand expectations for the first weeks of school. Interventions are planned and implemented in Perspectives (our first-year seminar course).

Align academic advising systems, protocols, and training to ensure that students receive consistent, timely, and proactive support throughout their academic programs.

Create structures focused on the first-year experience –scaled summer bridge program, freshman learning communities, redesigned institutional priority courses, meta-major based curricular and co-curricular activities-to promote student belonging and to guide students into right-fit academic majors in the first year.

1. High Risk Factors were identified and assessed for FTFT Cohort, which include: Late/No Pre-registration, High Course Withdrawals, DFWs @ Mid-term or Early Alerts, No Advising Activities Reported.
2. Students were classified as High, Medium, and Low Retention Risk.
3. Strategies were applied to address and resolve the specific retention risk of students. Note: Retention of AMSC students at Off-campus sites significantly and positively impact the retention rate (Within the USG)

Continuing to develop a first-year experience course, using high impact practices. This course will, ideally, be taken by all incoming freshmen who have not already completed their Institutional IMPACTS requirements. However, due to resource restraints, preference will be given to students who are first-time freshmen with no college credit. The course meets 3 hours per week and covers topics for academic and personal growth and wellness. Active Learning techniques will encourage students to tackle diverse perspectives and practice collaboration.

The College will create a dynamic roadmap to guide students on all the steps they need to take and the information they need to learn after they are admitted to the college, to ensure a successful start of their college career at Coastal.

We will increase the number of students experiencing High Impact Pedagogies as part of their curriculum across all five campuses and improve our ability to track these experiences for students.

UGA students are very well-prepared. The Class of 2027 posted an average high school GPA of 4.13, an average ACT score of 30, or an average SAT score of 1322. Often such high-achieving students have never experienced any kind of failure. But the demanding pace of a research institution like UGA often poses significant and unexpected challenges for our students.