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Center for Student Success

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The Center for Student Success has as its foundation a strong commitment to the success of all students. Academic advisement at Georgia College is a shared model that assures each student contact with a professional advisor or a faculty member who can guide a student's course selection and assist in career preparation. Students who have not yet decided on a major will be advised by professional advisors in the Advising Center in the Bone House. The Center also coordinates components of a year-long recruitment and retention program for incoming students.

Advising Mission Statement
Advising sessions are required for incoming first-year students and new transfer students. In addition, academic advisors and students shall meet to review the student's degree progress by the completion of 30, 60, and 90 earned credit hours.

Advising at Georgia College is a shared responsibility between students, faculty and staff. Through a network of resources and support, students communicate with advisors to obtain information and guidance aimed at the student's successful completion of degree requirements and preparation for post baccalaureate opportunities. An inherent goal of the advising process is for students to gain self understanding that will inform their decisions regarding academic, career and life goals.

Learning Outcomes and Goals
As a result of the academic advising experience at Georgia College, students should:

  • Know the general education or core curriculum requirements
  • Know about academic support services
  • Know how to use the student information system (PAWS) to self register
  • Know how to use the online catalog
  • Be able to generate their degree audit using DegreeWorks
  • Be able to make and keep advising appointments
  • Be able to ask for help
  • Be able to access course descriptions and degree requirements using the online catalog

Defined Academic Advising Administrative Structure
The administrative structure for academic advising at Georgia College combines elements of decentralized and centralized models. The following arrangements are currently in place at Georgia College:

Decentralized Advising

  • Generally, students are advised by assigned faculty advisors within their majors.
  •  In the College of Business, business majors (first and second year) are advised in the College's Advising Center by a professional advisor.
  • In the College of Education, pre-education majors are advised by assigned faculty in the College until they are admitted into a cohort program at which time the mentor leaders serve as the student's advisor.
  • In the College of Health Sciences, pre-nursing and pre-kinesiology students are advised by professional advisors in the College.
  • In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, there are faculty who also advise students interested in specific professional programs. These pre-professional faculty advisors supplement the advising provided to students in their declared major. Students from across the four colleges may take advantage of these pre-professional advisors.

Centralized Advising

  • Undeclared students are advised through the Center for Student Success
  • Honors students receive additional advising from the faculty in the Honors & Scholars Program
  • SOAR; Bridge; specialized transition programs
  • Organizational Chart (pdf)

 

Policy Requiring Mandatory Advising Meeting for Students
All undergraduate students at GC are assigned an academic advisor prior to the start of their first semester of enrollment.

Students who have declared a major are assigned an advisor in the department and discipline of the declared major. Students who have not yet declared a major are assigned an academic advisor through the Center for Student Success. Advising meetings between students and advisors are mandatory for first year students and new transfer students. Students are expected to meet with their advisors prior to each semester's registration, and meetings with advisors to review degree progress are required for all students after 30, 60, and 90 credit hours earned. Advisors are responsible for documenting when such advising meetings take place.
 
Contact Information
Georgia College
Center for Student Success
Campus Box 115
Phone: (478) 445-2361
Fax: (478) 445-5999



ABOUT GEORGIA COLLEGE: Georgia College, the state's designated Public Liberal Arts University, combines the educational experience expected at esteemed private liberal arts colleges with the affordability of public higher education. Its four colleges – arts and sciences, business, education and health sciences – provide 6,600 undergraduate and graduate students with an exceptional learning environment that extends beyond the classroom, with hands-on involvement with faculty research, community service, residential learning communities, study abroad and myriad internships

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