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This award from the Institute of International Education (IIE) recognizes the most innovative and successful models for developing and expanding international education in practice today.
The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the appointments of Distinguished University Professors and recognitions of faculty achievement and excellence, including an exciting new award for non-tenure track faculty. Read the list of this year’s honorees by clicking the story link.
Georgia State University is ranked the No. 2 most innovative university in the country and No. 2 for best undergraduate teaching in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges.
Georgia State improved its position in the categories, having ranked No. 3 for both innovation and undergraduate teaching in the 2021 survey. It’s the fourth year in a row the university has been ranked by the magazine in the top three among national universities for its “unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.”
Georgia State is the top-ranked public university in the category.
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When considering world languages, for some, European languages might be the first the come to mind.
However, Perimeter College at Georgia State University also offers an associate’s degree in a pathway focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), providing an in-depth understanding and using those skills in allyship for the deaf community. Rick Robinson, the Associate Chair of Humanities who works with world languages which houses the ASL department.
“The deaf community has their own culture, and then they have their own language and they’re underrepresented” said Rick Robinson, Associate Chair of the Humanities Department at Perimeter. “People are often afraid to approach deaf people because they are afraid of not knowing the culture.”
A Georgia State University experiential, project-based, and interdisciplinary learning pilot program is yielding promising results for student achievement following its initial semesters.
The Experiential Project-based Interdisciplinary Curriculum (EPIC) program was launched in fall 2019 to provide first-year students an opportunity to learn by doing in long-term projects that begin in core curriculum/general education courses, such as English composition or introduction to American government (political science 1101).
A preliminary analysis of grade point averages and DFW rates show a statistically significant impact, with improved GPAs, as well as a moderating effect on DFWs, especially among first-generation college students.
Alice S. Demi, professor emerita of nursing, has committed $1 million to the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions to build Georgia State University’s first interdisciplinary health simulation center.
The center, which will bear her name, will be used to teach students in Lewis College majors, including nursing, health informatics, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy and respiratory therapy.
Simulation centers and laboratories offer interprofessional education opportunities and are increasingly valuable as hospital and healthcare facility-based clinical placements become more difficult for students to secure.
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