ABSTRACT
In 2003, Georgia State University was a growing public, research-intensive institution with over 20,000 undergraduates as well as several thousand graduate students. From 2003 to 2018, Georgia State gradually assembled a number of initiatives that, together, led to substantial 3fold gains. Many were created under the aegis of the enrollment and student success programs and were intended from the start to become permanent features of the university if they were demonstrably effective. Meta-majors are an element of Georgia State’s constellation that is intended to reduce the time and costs of getting a degree. Georgia State’s use of evidence helps generate ideas for continual improvement of an initiative and then, once the improvement is in place, to see whether it’s really working. Georgia State’s evaluations of MILE courses did attend to learning, comparing grades in sections taught differently. College to Career’s use of ePortfolios will provide even more direct evidence of learning over time.
