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Perimeter College: Serving Students, Engaging Communities

Perimeter College: Serving Students, Engaging Communities. Themes for today: Who,Where, How. Who?. Georgia State University 50,000+ students, the largest institution of higher education in the state and one of the largest in the country. Perimeter College

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Perimeter College: Serving Students, Engaging Communities

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  1. Perimeter College: Serving Students, Engaging Communities

  2. Themes for today: Who,Where,How.

  3. Who?

  4. Georgia State University 50,000+ students, the largest institution of highereducation in the state and one of the largest in thecountry. PerimeterCollege 40% of the students atGeorgia State.

  5. Build on ourSuccesses Perimeter Students areExcelling Designing a MarsRover Perimeter engineering students Emily Paxton and Joshua Dulle designed a mock Mars rover prototype this summer at Langley Research Center in Virginia as part of NASA’s National Community Aerospace Scholarsproject. HelpingAbroad Decatur Campus students and Professor Fernando Rochaix loaded 10 donated computers with Spanish language educational software.The computerswere delivered by Guatemala study abroad students led by Perimeter professors Ernie Guyton and Dr. PriscillaDodds.

  6. Build on ourSuccesses Gates Scholar Perimeter 2016 graduate Yizra Ghebre was named a Gates MillenniumScholar. Jack Kent Cooke Scholars Yitbarek Katzentet, one of the 15 Perimeter students who have received the Jack Kent Cooke scholarship. He now studies petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California.

  7. Build on ourSuccesses An algae-bloom-collecting, Roomba-style robot proposed by Perimeter College students was a national finalist in the second annual National Science Foundation Community College Innovation Challenge. Perimeter won the People’s Choice award during the competition in June in Washington,D.C.

  8. Build on ourSuccesses Fun with Math and Science Since 2012, Marjorie Lewkowicz’s math classes have volunteered at Austin, Dunwoody and Vanderlyn elementary schools to offer Math Nights and STEM Days, devising games to engage youngstudents. ScienceOlympiad Perimeter hosts a Science Olympiad event each year for high school students, typically drawing 24 teams from participating highschools.

  9. Build on ourSuccesses Performing On Stage Perimeter’s children's Theatre class performed "Me No Choose None:The Stories of Anansi" for children at the Clarkston Library and at Onstage Atlanta. Studying Abroad Students from Perimeter toured London during a Study Abroad trip this summer.

  10. Build on ourSuccesses Summer BridgeProgram Perimeter Collegeoffers STEM programs aimed at giving two-year students a chance at undergraduate research. The programs—the Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, along with STEP, the Science, Technology, Engineering and MathematicsTalent Expansion Program—are funded through grants from the National ScienceFoundation.

  11. Where?

  12. Goals • Georgia State University’s StrategicPlan • Undergraduateeducation • Graduate and professionalprograms • Research • Cities • Globalization

  13. The Context:Diversity “Our students, who come from every county in Georgia, every state in the nation and more than 150 countries, deserve a first-rateeducation.” Georgia State University StrategicPlan

  14. Strategic Direction • Georgia State conveys our strategic direction using six pillars. • Perimeter College alignswith: • Guiding students to success • Leading thecommitment • todiversity • Cityconnections • Extendingconnections • across theglobe

  15. Perimeter’sAlignment • Guiding Students toSuccess • Advising • Analytics • Support • Commitment toDiversity • Diverse ethnic, racialand • gendermakeup • • Ages 15 -73

  16. Perimeter’sAlignment • Connecting toCities • Connect with communities throughvisits • Problems and issuesof • metropolitan areas • Connections Across the Globe • 3300+ InternationalStudents • 150 countriesrepresented

  17. NationalModel • Demonstrating • Increasedenrollment • Improved graduationrates • Increased transition andtransfer • Improved debt to credentialratio • – Reduced number of credit hours todegree • Reduced debt forstudents

  18. How?

  19. Things that the college has alwaysdone: • Affordable quality educationthat • meets the needs of thecommunity • 40%cheaper • Provide a key gateway to higher education for traditional andnon- traditional students, for local and internationalstudents • Transforming lives througheducation

  20. Campuses in diversecommunities • Alpharetta, Dunwoody &Newton • 900 High Techcompanies • Clarkston • International Students &Communities • Decatur • LIFT (Learning, Income & FamilyTransformation) • Support from a majorcorporation • Online • Complexpicture

  21. WorkforceDevelopment • IdentifyNeeds: • Respond: • Taking Classesto • Employers • On-CampusClasses • OnlineClasses • CertificatePrograms

  22. Engaging InternationalStudents • Clarkston is “MostDiverse • Square Mile inAmerica” • Clarkston Campus Reflects the Diversity of theCommunity • Perimeter Now Has Faculty Associate for the Office of InternationalInitiatives • College’s Existing Initiatives: ProjectShine

  23. Decatur CampusInitiatives • Proposed Decatur Campus initiative focuses on learning as a catalyst for transforming income levels and raising up families and communities • Threegoals: • Boost the retention and graduation of underserved high-school students and non-college-credentialed adults in South DeKalb County. • Increase the number of these individuals who pursue a post- secondarycredential. • Ensure these students graduate with the knowledge and skills • tosucceed. • A major corporation has shown interest in supporting thiseffort.

  24. AugmentSupport for OnlineStudents • Recent Study by Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy at Cal State Sacramento revealed a 70 percent online dropout rate in California CommunityColleges. • However, the study also reported higher graduation rates for students taking online courses.

  25. Additional Areas ofInterest • StrategicPlan • Promotion andTenure • Professional • Development • Bylaws • FinancialStanding

  26. LifelongLearning • Meeting student needs for learning regardless of age or stage inlife. • Meeting the educational needs of businesses, industries and nontraditional communities where theyexist.

  27. EngagingStudents Serving Communities • What’s Needed? • YourIdeas • YourExperience • Your Knowledge of and Access toResources • YourDedication • YourPassion • YOU

  28. We need you! Part1. • For future community partnershipswith • yourcampus: • Who are the keypeople? • What are the keyorganizations? • What are the most usefulresources? • Who should we be talkingto?

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