Piloting

The Bobcat Summer Leadership Program (BSLP) is open to all first-time full-time freshmen planning to attend East Georgia State College immediately after high school. The program is designed to provide the student with an opportunity to build a strong academic foundation to ease the transition from high school to college. In addition to taking courses for credit toward their degree, the student will connect with support services and engage in a range of leadership development activities.

The Roadrunner Experience is a residential and immersive summer bridge program designed for students requiring learning support math and English.  In this six-week program, students were enrolled in both learning support math and English as well as their credit course counterparts.  Roadrunner Scholars were provided tutoring assistance, peer education, development opportunities, as well as social activities.  All aspects of the program were provided at no cost through scholarships offered by our Dalton State Foundation.  Students were invited to apply for the program based on their high sch

Expand the use of Student Lingo as a course supplement/academic resource for students beyond the PRSP curriculum.

A first-year experience course, using high impact practices.

The College will create a 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.

Augusta University has a robust, multi-year plan to promote student retention and graduation utilizing the Four-to-Finish principles of Mindset, Purpose, Pathways and Engagement. Over the previous years, AU has implemented new strategies to support enrollment growth, and most recently created holistic student support structures organized by meta-majors.

This project continues to build on Momentum Year activities, improving success rates in gateway courses, particularly targeting ENGL 1101 courses. Various strategies will be employed to improve student success rates, including curriculum redesign, innovative pedagogical strategies, mindset activities.

AMSC will implement pre, real-time, and post semester strategies to improve student retention.  Retention strategies will be targeted based on student type, age group (traditional vs. adult learners), gender, first generation, and enrollment status (full-time vs. part-time).  Hanover Research has completed a study to identify factors that impact student retention at AMSC.

This project involves process mapping to identify and remove process barriers that prohibit students from graduating within 150% of expected time to completion.  Complete College America (CCA) will conduct a process mapping analysis of AMSC’s admissions and retention processes. Based on the outcomes of this analysis, AMSC will address CCA recommendations for process improvements and monitor the impact on student progression and completion.

Gateway courses have the lowest pass rates. This is particularly difficult for new freshman because it stifles their momentum and motivation to successfully past their first two semester classes and avoid academic warning and/or probation, which also impacts their ability to meet financial aid academic requirements.