Early Alerts

On June 1, 2025, Georgia Tech launched Navigate360, a new digital platform designed to support academic advising, streamline student success efforts, and strengthen collaboration across campus.

The Advising Center established as a pilot on the Waycross Campus requires faculty to schedule a minimum of one hour per work to provide academic advising to students on an ongoing basis. Student Support staff are assigned case loads of students for whom they provide referrals, conduct skills workshops, and address non-academic needs.

KSU has identified courses that are high enrollment courses with significant DFW rates and will continue to ensure that sufficient sections are offered to meet student demand, offer targeted academic supports to achieve greater impacts, and engage faculty in learning communities focused on course redevelopment.

This project is aligned with one of our “Top 5 Strategies,” which is to expand faculty knowledge and practices that support student success.

Overview:
Always Alert is Gordon State College’s proactive early alert and academic intervention initiative designed to identify and support students who may be at risk of academic difficulty in one or more courses. The program aims to improve student persistence and success by providing timely, personalized outreach and targeted academic coaching.

This initiative will expand the utilization of an academic chatbot in core courses.  The chatbot provides basic academic information, utilizes intelligent agents in the LMS to monitor student engagement and prompts as necessary, evaluates readiness for quizzes and reminds students about assignments and deadlines. GSU received a $7 million Post Secondary Student Success grant from the Department of Education to launch this technology in introductory English and Math courses in Fall 2024.  Chatbot technology is already used in American Government, Macroeconomics and Chemistry.

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)

The Academic Success Center (ASC) requests progress reports three times a semester to gather feedback on student performance. This helps identify potential barriers to student success and determine which students may need intervention and referral to campus resources to help them be successful. 

A targeted initiative to monitor the academic progress of student-athletes through structured grade checks and midterm reports, with referrals to additional resources as needed. Coaches, academic advisors, and support staff collaborate to ensure timely support for those at risk.

This activity expands the work ASU currently conducts within its University College. 

Albany State University currently does not require students to have standardized test scores prior to admission.  As such, it has been difficult to identify incoming students’ specific strengths nor areas that need improvement.  Our student success supports are therefore often too general to directly address specific student-related deficiencies.  To overcome this barrier to success, we are piloting a First Year Student Assessment Protocol (FYAP).