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Georgia State Faculty Honored at Celebrating Faculty Excellence 2021

Georgia State Faculty Honored at Celebrating Faculty Excellence 2021

The Office of the Provost congratulates faculty honorees who were recognized during the Celebrating Faculty Excellence event on Thursday, Oct. 1, where award recipients from 2020 were also commended for their achievements.

Learn more about the award recipients and their work at this web page, where you can also find a photo gallery from the event. List of individuals honored for promotions and/or tenure are also available on this page.

Featured News, News and Announcements, Student Success, Teaching and Learning

State Farm Award Supports Digital Literacy Through Learning Community Development at Georgia State

State Farm Award Supports Digital Literacy Through Learning Community Development at Georgia State

Georgia State University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Online Education (CETLOE) has received a $48,000 award from State Farm to expand development of online learning communities focused on helping students obtain technology and career skills through project-based learning and mentorship.

The award will support professionally-led virtual events, including a bootcamp on cloud-based programming and a series of workshops aimed at helping students identify and leverage career strengths. The award also funds extension of CETLOE’s Digital Learners to Leaders program.

The Digital Learners to Leaders program offers undergraduate coursework and events designed to inspire students, particularly those from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, to strengthen their digital skills through problem solving, exposure to emerging technologies and guidance from a diverse set of technology professionals across Atlanta’s education, business, government and non-profit communities. In addition to undergraduate coursework, an online summer camp for middle and high school students introduces coding, digital creation and esports.

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Georgia State Sets Research Funding Record

Georgia State Sets Research Funding Record

Georgia State University faculty set an institutional record, earning $150.2 million in research funding in fiscal year 2020. The record surpasses the previous high of $147 million set in fiscal year 2017 and is $22 million higher than the previous year’s total. This is the sixth consecutive year research awards have topped $100 million, and the first year awards have exceeded $150 million.

Among the university’s top 20 grant recipients, 12 are women. Thirty-three investigators brought in more than $1 million each. The College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Public Health and the College of Education and Human Development each set college funding records.

Georgia State is one of only 115 public and private universities in the Carnegie Foundation’s elite category of R1: Highest Research Activity. For the past three years, the university has been the highest-ranked institution without an engineering, medical or agricultural school in the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development survey, a nationally recognized barometer of university research activity.

Appointments and Faculty News, Featured News, News and Announcements

Call for Nominations: International Education Awards

Call for Nominations: International Education Awards

Do you know an outstanding faculty member, staff member, student or alum who deserves recognition for her or his international engagements? The Office of International Initiatives is accepting nominations for the 2019 International Education Awards.

Since 2012, the International Education Awards have recognized stellar faculty, staff and students for their commitment to international education. Awards are given during the annual International Honorary Reception during International Education Week in November.

Click the link to learn more about deadlines for the awards. Award recipients will be honored at the invitation-only International Honorary Reception on Monday, Nov. 18.

Featured News, News and Announcements, Student Success, Teaching and Learning

State Farm $55,000 Award Supports Digital Literacy At Georgia State

State Farm $55,000 Award Supports Digital Literacy At Georgia State

Georgia State University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) has received a $55,000 award from State Farm to expand programs and events to promote digital literacy.

The award will fund increased access to workshops and events held by two organizations sponsored by CETL, the Digital Learners to Leaders program and PantherHackers student organization. Both organizations encourage students to explore technology through project-based and experiential learning.

News and Announcements, Student Success, Teaching and Learning

Political Science Department Wins National Digital Learning Award For Adaptive Learning

Political Science Department Wins National Digital Learning Award For Adaptive Learning

The Department of Political Science was awarded the Digital Learning Innovation Award by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) for its work using adaptive learning courseware to assess and improve individual students’ performance in an introductory class on global issues.

The Georgia State team, which included Chris Brown, senior lecturer, Jeannie Grussendorf, senior lecturer, and Ph.D. candidate Michael Shea, conducted a full-scale academic study to assess students’ engagement with adaptive learning software in both face-to-face and online classes, and compared their performance in the course to a control group of students receiving a traditional, non-adaptive presentation of the course using the same software platform. Among students receiving the adaptive version of the course, rates of grades of D or F or withdrawal from the course decreased by 20 percent in one semester measured by the trial study.

The global issues course is offered by more than 15 instructors, typically in large classroom settings, and is taken by about 2,500 students at Georgia State each year.

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