New Academic Year 2015-2016

Currently there are 11,900 registered students, I am not sure why this number is more than the target figure mentioned at the previous program. One of the numbers does not seem to be consistent.



GGC New hires
SST has had 20 new faculty new hires for AY 2015-2016. 2 Math and 1 Physics faculty from Vietnam will be visiting GGC for shadowing in lectures, it is a part of an agreement between GGC and a Vietnam's national university.


New Constructions
The C-bldg will have an addition to it to double its size, and the following year AY 2016-2017 there will be further addition to bldg C. It will have school of Business and Education in bldg-C, AEC will move into bldg-C. In AY 2015-16, the focus is on the classroom and teaching spaces, and in the following year, the concentration will be on increasing faculty spaces. Eventually faculty from RL will me moved out to free-up space for students in RL bldg.

New major
GGC has started new major in environmental science from AY 2015-16. The major in Interdisciplinary Science is being OKed by GGC. Dean suspects, that there might not be a new major added at GGC after the Interdisciplinary Science. However, there might be additions to "tracks" to existing majors.

STEM Initiation-III
Dean was not aware if USG would offer the III phase of the STEM initiative, as it is a part of GGC's teaching culture. Dean is planning to have a sustainable STEM initiative inbuilt at SST.



Foundational courses (algebra/quantitative) reasoning to Access courses. With the introduction of Co-requisite model (get information from Math faculty/Keri about the access courses)

New Hire for Administrative staff:
There are 80 applicants for this open position and the search committee would finalize its selection after starting sorting through the applications in Sept 01 2015. To aid the current admin staff, it is advised to complete travel-related documents at least 2 weeks ahead of the scheduled travel.

Budget Program Manager Position Open
Manage SST budget and coordinate with GGC campus for summer camps etc. The advert for this would be soon posted.

Current Student Enrollment
The target was 11,700 in AY 2015 beginning. It was about 11,000 students during the Spring 2015 term. Dean was not sure if GGC would meet its target, as he felt that many other colleges have been advertising in Gwinnett County and GGC has not been active on this front.

Sabbatical Leave policy
Techinically its called educational leave. Is available in GGC faculty policy hand book. 

E-core courses
The USG is trying to push GGC to have e-core that circumvents students to take few courses in the college and instead they take it at home, online......It is a strange proposition. For now, GGC is not offering the e-core courses until USG mandates it to GGC. Currently, e-core courses are offered by other USG institutions, it can be taken under transient student status.

PNC committee
Alvina Atkison
Wei Liu
Peter Meso
Karen Perell-Gerson
Dave Purcell (chair)
Stella Smith
Candace Timple

-Turn in dossier the dossier in USB drive and drop off at Dean's office by 4 pm in Sept 4th 2015
-Support letters with signed waiver form to Dave Pursell directly from writeres via email by 4 pm on the deadline
-P&C recommendation given to dean by Oct 9th 2015
-P&C committee values dossier organization and brevity
-Name dossier folders and files appropriately (name and length)

-If you plan to submit the dossier:
email Dave Pursell as soon as possible
Dave Pursell eill email the status of support letters recieved by him


Faculty Senate Update
-upto 10% representation of various STEM disciplines.
-Senate website is up