Innovate

(verb): 1. To make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products

A student uses a 3-D printer at a makerspace at Georgia College
The John H. Lounsbury College of Education's Maker Space
A green lightbulb

We will encourage and support innovation and creativity, enhance our leadership in transformative curricular and co-curricular experiences, and expand and deepen student engagement to enrich the student experience and prepare students to excel in an ever- changing global society.

Goals

1. Become a national leader in transformative curricular and co-curricular experiences.

a. Sustain, grow, and deepen GC Journeys as a vehicle to promote essential skills and experiential learning opportunities. 

b. Support innovative pedagogies, and transdisciplinary and transcultural relationships. 

c. Continue developing innovative and flexible curricular and co-curricular opportunities to increase student engagement. 

d. Develop programs and initiatives to foster ethical, reflective, and engaged leaders and professionals who are dedicated to excellence.

2. Serve learners at all stages of life to prepare them for the opportunities and challenges of an ever- changing world.

a. Develop and sustain adaptive and visionary strategies that respond competitively to current and future job market needs. 

b. Build flexible and pedagogically innovative curricular opportunities. 

c. Develop and support academically robust and competitive graduate and lifelong learning offerings. 

d. Grow graduate enrollment.

3. Build and sustain an institutional infrastructure and operations that foster innovative approaches across the university.

a. Develop and implement an entrepreneurial funding model for the university, seeking opportunities for revenue generation for the university as well as immersion opportunities for our students. 

b. Create an Institute of Innovation and Design to serve as the hub of innovation on campus.  

c. Build an organizational structure to recruit, admit, and support graduate and non-traditional students.  

d. Seek and implement organizational solutions to increase collaboration across internal and external partners and university constituencies.  

e. Identify resources to support scholarly/research activity by faculty, staff, and students.  

f. Promote sustainability initiatives across the university.  

g. Create and sustain institutional structures and initiatives that position our faculty, staff, and students as global citizens who respond with agility and creativity to the threats and opportunities of an ever-changing world.

Progress

Progress and metric information coming soon!