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Credit Intensity/15 to Finish Discussion Notes

Credit Intensity/15 to Finish was one of four shared areas of interest for participants at the East Georgia CCG Regional Meeting held at Augusta University on March 7, 2016. Brief notes from the breakout conversation on this isse at the meeting follow:

Discussion Notes:

  • Measuring enrollment vs. achievement
  • Identify students on front end
  • Schedule of classes
  • Non-traditional classes
  • Correlation between students not doing well and taking fewer hours
  • Satisfactory Academic Progress – financial literacy incorporated into student’s education
  • Grade replacements now averaged/freshman grade forgiveness
  • Armstrong – allows partial withdrawals
  • 14 credit hour average, have to top it off or get extra permission for course loads over 18 credit hours
  • Misinformation about HOPE
  • Financial incentives for transfer
  • NSC data tracking for transfer students
  • Frozen tuition problems and graduating earlier
  • Disincentive for summer classes because of the way they average GPA at Georgia Southern
  • Co-requisite model problems with passing one class and not the other
  • Learning support study at SGSC
  • Faculty resistance to doing what’s best for students
  • Financial literacy has to be episodic under First Year Experience
  • Withdrawal policies
  • Tracking in Banner at GCSU - involvement in student activities and organizations, perform a risk assessment
  • Data is siloed, need to build a predictive model  
  • Open access mission, resources lacking
  • Move on When Ready/Dual Enrollment
  • Losing students to other schools