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Mission and Unit Goals of the Academic Support Division

The goals of the Academic Support Division are directly linked to the following institutional goal(s) of Georgia Highlands College:

• Effect quality teaching and learning that are focused on academic achievement and personal and professional growth.

Unit Mission

The Academic Support Division provides three kinds of support for learning.  First, Academic Support offers the courses that are part of the state's formal Learning Support program (ENGL 0099, MATH 0097, MATH 0099, and READ 0099).  Learning Support courses carry Institutional credit only, which means that grades are not computed in the semester grade point average or in a transfer or graduate average. However, these courses prepare students for credit-level courses ahead. The Academic Support Division places students into Learning Support courses and tracks progress through them according to policies of the Georgia Board of Regents (BOR) and Georgia Highlands College. Academic Support is also responsible for the content of the Learning Support courses, with input from the Humanities and Mathematics Divisions.

Second, Academic Support provides the Regents' Test Preparation courses that the state requires of students in transfer programs who do not pass the Regents' Test within three semesters of entering the college (RGTE 0199, RGTR 0198).  The Academic Support Division insures that students are placed correctly into test preparation courses, tracks progress through them, and determines the content of the courses with input from the Humanities Division.

Finally, Academic Support provides the college success course called "The College Experience" (FCST 1010). 
 

Unit Goals

Administrative Goals

The Academic Support Division will

1.  Assess the requirements for placement (COMPASS) testing for prospective students in the re-admit, transfer, and post-baccalaureate categories, and notify those students of what tests are required and when (date and time) to test.

2.  Insure that students are placed into Learning Support classes according to policies of the Georgia Board of Regents (BOR) and Georgia Highlands College, and track students' progress through those courses in order to provide the appropriate number of attempts allowed.

3.  Notify students of their progress through Learning Support classes before Learning Support dismissal is required.

4. Check student placements in Learning Support courses at the beginning of each term to catch and correct advising errors resulting in mistaken enrollments.

5.  Train advisors at Faculty Academy and other times in Learning Support advising to reduce advising errors and make Learning Support advisors readily available at orientations. 

6.  Insure that students either exempt or take the Regents' Tests as required by policies of the Georgia BOR and Georgia Highlands College, and place students into test preparation courses according to policies of the same organizations.
 

Academic Goals

The division's academic goals are well expressed in the Student Learning Outcomes for our courses. 

In addition to those, we have an overall performance goal of insuring that our exiting Learning Support students are able to perform well in credit-level classes.

Assessment of Unit Goals

Information about assessment of our unit goals is presented here.