Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's goal is to contribute to a better-educated Georgia. To that end, it engages in a comprehensive planning and assessment process, enabling it to build upon its many strengths. The College's faculty, staff, and administration are committed to excellence in preparing students to be informed and productive citizens.
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) is a State College in the University System of Georgia with a Fall Semester 2011 enrollment of 3,248 students. Over 1,200 students live on the Tifton campus in either ABAC Lakeside or ABAC Place.
Because of its depth of programs, the college attracts students from 149 Georgia counties, 17 states, and 22 countries. The School of Agriculture and Natural Resources is the largest school of study on campus. Nursing is the largest single major at ABAC with over 700 students taking classes for their associate degrees, aiming for Registered Nurse (R.N.) status.
Bachelor's degrees with concentrations in a variety of different areas of study are offered on the ABAC campus. Programs include Social and Community Affairs, Arts and Culture, Writing and Communication and Business and Economic Development, all under the umbrella of Rural Studies, as well as Diversified Agriculture, Turfgrass and Golf Course Management, Forestry, Wildlife Management and Biology.
There are 48 programs of study in the two-year curriculum. Students at the college choose from 39 transfer programs, which transfer without loss of credit to other units of the University System of Georgia, or the nine majors in the career technological program, which are designed to be completed after two years of study.
In 1987, ABAC expanded its scope to include classes in Moultrie, Ga., at a location in the center of downtown called "ABAC on the Square." Over 200 students now attend classes there.
ABAC has joined with Georgia Southwestern State University to offer junior and senior level classes on the ABAC campus leading to other bachelor's degrees in early childhood education, management, accounting, and resource management.
The United States Department of Education has named ABAC one of America's most affordable colleges.
ABAC has an annual economic impact of more than $241 million on Tifton and the surrounding area.
Expanding experiential learning through connections with co-curricular (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-2024)
Increase opportunities for experiential learning activities that provide meaningful professional experience to students through private and public partnerships.
Local, early, and efficient engaged learning opportunities (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-2024)
Increase opportunities for experiential learning activities that provide meaningful professional experience to students through private and public partnerships.
Comprehensive Program Living Learning Communities (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-2024)
ABAC’s Office of Student Affairs is creating Living Learning Communities (LLCs) for incoming first-year students living on campus. The LLCs will incorporate mentorships and peer support that will focus on academic and social skillsets, communication practices, leadership, empathy, community engagement, and relationship building.
ABAC Housing has a long track record of hosting LLCs over the last decade, in Lakeside, the typical first-year student dorm; however, this new model will be the first that the LLCs will be hosted outside of the typical freshmen dorms.
“Yellow Brick Road”- Creating a four-year plan for career services (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-2024)
In preparation for the Momentum VI Summit, ABAC’s CCG team identified a data gap in the institution’s ability to capture what its graduates were doing after graduation, including workforce-related data. To help close this gap, the College incorporated Career Services into its Strategic Plan, which is also tied to USG’s Student Career Development initiative as part of their Strategic Plan 2029.
FLEX (First-year Learning Experience) (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-2024)
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-2023-Implementation with Data Collection, Analysis, and Management (Data CAM): Career Data
ABAC has reliable data on its Momentum initiatives and retention and graduation rates (internal tracking, USG Qlik, and IPEDS). The top data gaps for ABAC identified during the Momentum VI Summit include:
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-2023-FLEX (First-year learning experience)
Academic Support decided to re-envision the AIM (Academic Intervention Management) program, implemented in 2012, to work with first-year students on academic probation after their first semester. The AIM program is considered reactive and doesn’t provide the “just in time” support many of our students need. A pilot of the FLEX program was run during the fall 2022 and the fall 2023 semesters alongside the AIM program.
Supplemental Updates for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College - 2023
15-TO-FINISH
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College 2023
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) is a residential institution that has long been the higher education destination for students who want to study agriculture and natural resources. Today, ABAC has grown to become a destination for students seeking a wide variety of baccalaureate programs from a broad range of academic disciplines. ABAC is a unique, intimate learning environment where students are given the tools to embrace their full potential and pursue their career and personal aspirations through a hands-on educational experience.
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