October 2025 Provost Notes

Ms. Courtney Bentley – Communities in Schools – School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Project Title: CIS Model to Improve HS Graduation Rate FY26

Sponsor: Communities in Schools Milledgeville

Funded Amount: $50,000

Dr. Lindee Morgan - Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy

Project Title: Unified Literacy Coaching

Sponsor: Governor’s Office of Student Achievement

Funded Amount: $1,052,730

Academic Affairs Small Grant Award Recipients

Dr. Shyh-Chi Chen

Biological and Environmental Sciences

$4,990 for A Novel Humidity-Entrained Clock for Mosquito and Fly Activities

Dr. Brittney Hardin

School of Health and Human Performance

$4,948 for Evaluating the Accuracy of Baseline SCAT6 mBESS Scores Compared to IMU-Derived Postural Stability Metrics in Division-II Collegiate Athletes

Dr. Michelle Moyer

Biological and Environmental Sciences

$4,949 for Examining the Fitness Costs of Sex-Specific Song in an Understudied Caribbean Endemic (Icterus portoricensis)

Dr. Tom Prato

School of Health and Human Performance

$4,870 for Using Novel Visual Outcomes for Detecting and Tracking Concussion-Related Neural Dysfunction

Dr. Danielle Pullan

Government and Sociology

$3,200 for Women's Place Is in the Statehouse: The Politics of Presence in Discourse before and after Dobbs

Community-based Engaged Learning Grants

Dr. Daniel Wu

Information Systems and Computer Science

$1,000 for Bridging Theory and Practice: A Data-Driven Community Partnership to Optimize Maintenance Effectiveness

All Core IMPACTS and Education courses offered must have publicly accessible syllabi. Simple Syllabus will continue to be the platform to facilitate this process.

Faculty are encouraged to access their Simple Syllabus dashboard to view and edit syllabi for their course sections. A direct link to the Simple Syllabus dashboard is available in Service Apps on my.gcsu.edu, and via the Course Syllabi link at the bottom of any gcsu.edu webpage. Syllabus templates are still available to edit in GeorgiaVIEW, but, once you click on the Syllabus link in the course navbar, you will need to select the specific section from your list of courses in order to edit the syllabus.

If you are teaching a cross-listed course that is required to have a published syllabus, each section within that cross-listed course must have a published syllabus. Please see the helpful information document for details.

Faculty Training:

https://digitalspaces.gcsu.edu/media/Simple+Syllabus+-+Faculty+Training+-+Session+1+%28Aug+1%2C+2025%29/1_1uqfs5x7

Approver Training:

https://digitalspaces.gcsu.edu/media/Simple+Syllabus+-+Approver+Training/1_pk8vbpv3

To ensure compliance, syllabi for all Core and Education courses must be posted by Monday, October 20, one week prior to the start of the spring registration October 27, and must include the specified components below:

• Course Prefix, Number, and Name
• Semester and Academic Year
• Course Description
• Course Learning Outcomes: These are the approved outcomes for the course.
• Required Course Materials: List of textbooks with ISBN, articles, lab supplies, equipment, course packs, etc. that students are expected to read or reference as part of the course.
• Grading Policy: Specify how final grades will be determined, including weighting scales or points assigned to various course requirements.
• Attendance Policy
• Academic Honesty/Integrity Statement
• Core IMPACTS Statement (if applicable)

For concerns/questions and appropriate contact:
Content and Course Consistency: Department Chair
Policy and Requirement: Kevin Bucholtz, Office of the Provost
Technical D2L related: Alison Shepherd, Center for Teaching & Learning
IT Related Issues: Brian Watson and Ashley Waddell, Information Technology

Professional Leave of Absence Policy and Application

• If the professional leave application is approved at the chair level, the Chair should provide workload coverage documentation to the Dean via email.
• If the professional leave application is approved at the Dean level, the Dean should email the Provost the workload coverage documents along with the Dean’s cover letter to provost@gcsu.edu.

If the application is approved by the Provost, faculty will need to fill out the Leave of Absence Policy and Form.

Hosted by the Office of Leadership Programs, this year’s TEDx event invites you to ignite your curiosity and fuel your imagination. Held in Russell Auditorium on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 1:00 pm, the event will feature thought-provoking talks from poets, neuroscientists, historians, and more—each sharing the spark that drives their work and ideas.

Tickets are available until October 14, so grab yours before they’re gone!

Student Success and Retention Series Session:

Fall 2024 First Year Retention Data Overview and Sophomore Student Panel

Date/ Time: October 23, 2025, at 12:00 noon

Location: Pat Peterson Museum Education Room

Register Here

Enhance Your Teaching with Kaltura: Creating, Storing, and Sharing Videos - November 4, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. Register here.

Writing Across the Curriculum Workshops with Dr. Chris Anson will be hosted throughout the day on Thursday, October 23, 2025.

Spend the day with one of the nation's leading experts on writing pedagogy. Dr. Anson offers practical strategies for designing better assignments, managing AI challenges and supporting student writers without overwhelming your workload. These workshops combine research-backed methods with hands-on application — bring your own assignments and teaching challenges to work through.

Don't miss the brown bag Q&A lunch for personalized conversation and advice. Whether you attend one session or all four, you'll leave with concrete tools you can use immediately.

The Office of Graduate Admissions will launch its application fee waiver this year from October 20 to November 1. The fee waiver will be available for all graduate programs.