Department of Technical and Adult Education

Technical Education Improvement & Innovation Project
Project Abstracts


ABSTRACTS BY COLLEGE


ABSTRACTS PROJECT CATEGORY

Activities to Meet Perkins Benchmark

Project Purpose
To improve performance on one or more of the core sub-indicators of performance. Each core indicator may be a separate project.

Augusta Technical College
Clayton College and State University
Gwinnett Technical College
Northwestern Technical College


Career Guidance

Project Purpose
To focus on a student’s abilities, interests, and values as building blocks to successful career guidance and retention. To employ factors other than the aforementioned to enhance career guidance and create a valuable career program.

Altamaha Technical College
Central Georgia Technical College Project 1
Central Georgia Technical College Project 2
Central Georgia Technical College Project 3
Sandersville Technical College
Swainsboro Technical College
West Georgia Technical College


Career Placement

Project Purpose
To help students develop job-search competencies and present themselves effectively as candidates for employment. Additionally, Career placement process should also obtain information on employment opportunities, trends, and prospective employers.

Coastal Georgia Community College
Columbus Technical College


Enrollment Management (Student Recruitment and Retention)

Project Purpose
To synergize enrollments, to link our outstanding programs to recruitment and retention, to optimize resources, to improve services, to improve quality, to improve access to information, and to develop and evaluate strategies and make appropriate changes.

Appalachian Technical College
Bainbridge College
Coosa Valley Technical College Project 1
DeKalb Technical College
Flint River Technical College
Middle Georgia Technical College
North Metro Technical College
Columbus Technical College


GAP

Project Purpose
To increase the number of high school students successfully achieving a smooth transition from secondary education to success in technical college and/or the workforce.

Augusta Technical College Project 1
Savannah Technical College


Institutional Research/Institutional Effectiveness

Project Purpose
To encourage continuous quality improvement by enhancing institutional research/institutional effectiveness in the institution.

Chattahoochee Technical College


Internship/Apprenticeship

Project Purpose
To improve student learning through multiple delivery methods.

Valdosta Technical College


Job Readiness/Employability Skills/Job Retention

Project Purpose
To assist students in overcoming barriers to employment. To increase opportunities for student employment. To provide support for job readiness, job searches, placement, and retention.

East Central Technical College


New and Emerging Technologies

Project Purpose
To encourage continuous quality improvement in adopting new and emerging technologies that enhance learning experiences.

Albany Technical College
Atlanta Technical College Project 1
Dalton State College
Lanier Technical College
Moultrie Technical College


Perkins Project-Other

Project Purpose
Purpose will vary by college.

Heart of Georgia Technical College
Southwest Georgia Technical College


Special Populations

Project Purpose
To innovatively improve the effectiveness of the services and activities provided to special population students so that they can achieve at the same level as other students.

Athens Technical College Project 2
Atlanta Technical College Project 2
Coosa Valley Technical College Project 2
Griffin Technical College
North Georgia Technical College
South Georgia College
Southeastern Technical College
West Central Technical College


Staff Development

Project Purpose
To promote best practices in staff and faculty development; to create technical colleges in which students, faculty and staff are all learners who continually improve their performance.

Athens Technical College Project 1
Ogeechee Technical College



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