Meetings
Meetings and Events
2018 USG Advising Academy
September 20, 20184021 Lakeview Drive
The University System will convene the 2018 Advising Academy at the Atlanta Evergreen Conference Resort at Stone Mountain Park on September 20-21. This year’s Advising Academy will focus on supporting successful student transition to college, investigating the ways institutions serve a diverse group as they navigate the steps from application through the completion of their Momentum Year. This broader scope is intended to encourage a conversation about the numerous transition points students encounter and how to best manage them in order to support their success in the institution.
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2018 USG Mindset Summit
May 16, 2018875 West Peachtree Street NW
Building a productive academic mindset is a key component of the USG Momentum Year (www.completegeorgia.org/what-momentum-year). The Academic Mindset Summit is the focal event for our shared work in this area and will include presentations and discussions on a range of topics, including the results of the initial administration of the USG Getting to Know Our Students Survey, essential practices for mindset initiatives, and areas of opportunity for early work and engagement.
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Spring 2018 Learning Support Academy
March 23, 20182000 Clayton State Blvd.
Following on last Fall’s two-day Learning Support Academy, the 2018 Spring Learning Support Academy, held at Clayton State University’s Student Activities Center on Friday, March 23, will continue the sharing of experiences and proven practices with corequisite remediation among faculty and staff across the system. Institutional teams are invited to come together to investigate the pedagogies, technology, academic support, advising, high impact practices and logistics of corequisite delivery. The Academy will include general sessions in the morning and English and mathematics tracks in the afternoon to address subject-matter specific challenges.
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2018 USG Momentum Summit
February 15, 2018800 Spring St NW
For several months, the Office of Academic Affairs and Policy has worked to convene faculty and staff from across all USG institutions to introduce the Momentum Year and initiate a statewide discussion about student success in the first academic year. From these initial conversations, the University System of Georgia will work with institution leadership during spring 2018 to implement strategies that support all incoming students to:
Make a purposeful program choice; develop a strong academic mindset; and attempt the first 30 hours of a clear pathway that include 9 credit hours in a focus area and an initial English and math
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2017 Advising Academy
November 1, 20171601 Maple St
The Complete College Georgia Advising Academy is the first of a series of discussions with faculty and staff focusing on the connection of large-scale initiatives across the system to promote student success in the first academic year. The theme of the conference series is Momentum Year--a starting point that helps students find their path, get on that path, and build velocity in the direction of their goals as they begin their college career.
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2017 Learning Support Academy
October 3, 20171630 Metropolitan Parkway SW
The Learning Support Academy is hosted by Complete College Georgia and is part of a series of discussions with faculty and staff focusing on the connection of large-scale initiatives across the system to promote student success. The theme of the conference series is "Momentum Year"--an effort to combine several proven elements of success during a student's first academic year to help them stay in school and graduate on time.
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2016 Beyond Financial Aid
October 3, 2016100 University Pkwy, Macon, GA 31206
Beyond Financial Aid is a toolkit designed to help two- and four-year institutions close attainment gaps for low-income students. BFA expands the concept of “financial supports” for college beyond grants, scholarships and loans and describes six college-tested strategies for helping low-income students overcome the significant challenges created by limited resources. BFA features a self-assessment that college teams can use to analyze their service capacities and an interpretation guide to help map out their first steps toward strengthening these capacities.
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The Classic Center - Athens, Georgia
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Most academic programs in the USG have sequences of courses that convert to program maps. These tools are essential to help students navigate programs of study and succeed. Program maps provide concrete guidance for students to help them take the right courses at the right time, to stay on track to completion, and when coupled with appropriate milestones, to know what other steps they need to take to be ready to finish on time. They help to make program requirements and course sequences transparent to students, leading to a decrease in unnecessary credits and increased persistence and graduation. Furthermore, they are useful tools for increasing the efficiency of advising systems by providing frameworks for students’ progress through a program of study.
This workshop outlined practical tips on building program maps with constrained choices and appropriate milestones with ample time for experimentation, discussion and collaboration.
Examining and Enhancing Resources and Support for Economically Disadvantaged First Year Students Part II
November 2016University of North Georgia
CCG Collaborative Capacity Grant Symposium
This project proposes to develop a customized publication of resources and services that can strengthen support for first-year low-income students to address their needs beyond financial aid. Please join us on November 3 as we solidify resources within our region to increase retention and completion rates for students who are in dire need of our help. The University System of Georgia and The Lumina Foundation will offer insights to ensure academic success for low-income students in your service area and throughout the state of Georgia.
Recommended Audience: First-Year Coordinators, Advisors, Academic Affairs, Financial Aid Counselors, Student Affairs, Institutional Research, Student Success Coaches, and Retention Coordinators.
Strategies for Success: Best Practices to Support Advising Learning Outcomes
October 2016Atlanta Metropolitan State College
CCG Collaborative Capacity Grant Symposium
This professional development opportunity on October 20th will explore best practices to support core learning outcomes for academic advising. Sessions will convey a consistent message to increase student retention and persistence system-wide while providing a fundamental framework in which institutions can build upon to best serve their unique student populations. Attendees will have the opportunity to leave sessions with a foundation to develop meaningful assessment plans to make data driving improvements to academic advising.
