
College to Career Grant Applications
Reminder: Application deadlines have been extended until May 15th
The Schools and Colleges of Georgia State University, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the QEP, are seeking qualified faculty and academic departments to take part in a College to Career (CTC) curriculum development program. Working with the Faculty Director of the QEP, these Fellowships and Departmental Incentive Grants build on the work of previous CTC initiatives through direct faculty and departmental involvement in the implementation of the QEP. Apply now using the links provided to the right.
College of Arts & Sciences: Department of History
Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing & Health Professionals

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology

College of Arts & Sciences: Department of Geosciences
2019 Faculty Fellow Recipients

Tamra Susan Ortgies-Young
Tamra plans to continue the work of her POLS colleague, Michael Evans (QEP Fellow 2018-2019) by implementing opportunities for students to prepare for careers while taking core Political Science classes and expanding these programs to Perimeter College.

Sandra L. Dwyer
If I could develop a module that increased working students’ awareness of any connections at this early point in their degree-seeking experience (both graduates and undergraduates being in the first two years of their degree program), that awareness may provide them a jump start for becoming more reflective about connections between coursework and their future career.

Laura Hastings
An engaged faculty, excited about integrating into their classes visits to an area law court or to a CDC laboratory, is a key ingredient to successful initiatives. Laura looks forward to devising more effective assessments of these kinds of co-curricular activities.

Keisha Brown
As a College to Career Faculty Fellow, Keisha is looking forward to mapping Perimeter College’s pathways into Portfolium. Students will have the opportunity to discover how what they learn in the classroom translates into their career field. By using Portfolium, they will have the ability to document their experiences as evidence to the skills they have mastered.

Susan Cody-Rydzewski
Susan is excited to work on a project focused on helping students realize the potential of their undergraduate experience to enhance not only their critical thinking and analytical skills but also their career preparation. Seeing and understanding these connections early on adds a layer of value to the college experience and serves to equip students for success after graduation.

Christa Wright
The overarching goal of Christa’s QEP Plan is to create experiential activities to enrich student learning, enhance environmental health literacy and inspire future environmental health professionals. She plans on providing professional/career development, hands-on lab training including cell culture and toxicity assessments, along with lab activities designed to teach environmental health and nanoscience concepts.

Jung Ha Kim
I am convinced that designing, promoting, and leading an active learning curriculum will further enhance students’ career-readiness competencies and their self-reflected incorporation of academic skills and knowledge with real-world experiences.

Natalie L. Stickney
My department chair and I plan to incorporate our certification programs of study, Personal Trainer and Health Coach, into Pathways to provide interested students an opportunity to become certified trainers before they complete their degrees. Additionally, I plan to develop content for students that will help them set goals that are aligned with N.A.C.E. competencies.

Sahithya Reddivari
The College to Career Faculty Fellowship will enable Sahithya to develop Portfolium based modules that will guide students to recognize marketable skills that are developed through their course work. Further, students will be able to identify gaps in essential workplace skill sets and work towards bridging those gaps.

Paul Ulrich
Engaging in original research is a transformative experience for STEM majors, and Paul will be broadening access to these Signature Experiences while building a pathway for undergraduates to effectively communicate career competencies linked to their research activities.

Melissa McLeod
The Signature Experience modules she creates will ask students to articulate in a variety of forms what skills they have acquired in their signature experience courses that prepare them for the working world and how those skills prepare them for careers.

Shelby Frost
I believe strongly that the competencies we are focusing on in the CTC initiative are beneficial to all students, and I look forward to helping students further develop those skills so that they can successfully attain their goals.

Aakanksha Angra
This summer, Aakanksha, along with her graduate student, Gabriella Ryan, developed critical thinking modules with the primary focus on experimental design and quantitative skills. This Fall, they are piloting these modules in one section of introductory biology and hope to expand the implementation to multiple sections in the future.
2019 Departmental Incentive Grant Recipients

WomenLead

Department of Biology

STEM
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
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Department of Kinesiology & Health

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Institute (ENI)

Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing & Health Professionals
