The Student Support Services (SSS) program provides support services to first generation, low-income and/or students with disabilities. The goal of SSS program is to increase the college retention and graduation rates of its participants and is based upon the belief that all students, regardless of age, family background, learning style, or presence of a disability, should have equal opportunity to reach their full personal, academic and career potential.

A Seat At The Table: Social Justice Food for Thought Series is centered around 6 Social Justice Leaders and their legacy as a servant leader and Social Justice advocate. Attendees will engage in critical conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion and reflect on their own identity, intersectionality and capacity to make an impact.

Welcome Receptions/ Mixers are bi-annual affinity-affirming events that invites members of diverse communities. Our signature events include, but are not limited to: The American-International Student Mixer, LGBTQ+ Welcome Reception, Student of Color Welcome Reception, Interfaith Community Mixer, and the First Generation Welcome Reception.

Serves as a safe space for the African- American student athletes. This will be a comfortable space that will solicit much needed conversation around their college experience and mental health needs.

Georgia’s (GA) workforce and health system are underprepared to address the unique healthcare needs of the rapidly growing, racially and ethnically diverse population of older adults. The purpose of the GA GEAR is to improve the health and well-being of older Georgians, their families and their communities. This will be accomplished through partnerships in a program of interdisciplinary education to improve health outcomes across urban and rural areas while addressing the five objectives of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) GA GEAR Program. The School of Nursing at Georgia State will work with GA GEAR to provide training on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). Georgia State’s work will address the provision of training on the ADRD through an educational outreach program in the African American faith community, Dementia-Friendly Faith Congregation community program. Faith-based communities are important outlets for health-related information and access to services, particularly for African Americans. Historically, churches have been a safe haven for African American families, but many churches do not have programs to support families/congregants living with dementia. The Dementia-Friendly Faith Village Community Program (a nurse-led program) will offer workshops and community forums and include health profession students/trainees. The community forums (2 hrs.) and workshops (4 hrs.) include lectures, testimonies, memory screenings and simulated dementia experiences. Georgia State will further implement, expand and evaluate this program in African American congregations in the Atlanta metro area and replicate the program where Memory Assessment Centers are located (Albany, Augusta, Columbus, or Macon). Ultimately, the program will provide churches with the knowledge needed to support African American families living with dementia.

The Senior Brunch and Learn program serves alumni of the university who are over the age of 65. The events include an outing to a local attraction like a museum and a group lunch. The purpose of the initiative is to deliver content that is appealing to our aging alumni while giving them an opportunity to be with allow retirees and people their age.

The Pipeline project provides informal mentorship of the current graduate students to the undergraduate student (hereafter, candidate) who are in good academic standing and recommended by faculty members, to help them figure out whether graduate school is right for them. Such information and mentorship are generally lacking in the underrepresented students and we fill in this gap. With our diverse body of undergraduate students, we hope to build a pipeline that feeds into our graduate program.

The Public Policy Camp is an APPAM (Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management) initiative aimed at introducing the field of public policy to underrepresented undergraduate students who might not otherwise be familiar with it and increasing the pipeline of diverse students into graduate public policy and public affairs schools or professional fields. It has an application process and only 2-3 schools are selected each year as hosts.

This is a student chapter of Ascend, the largest Pan-Asian organization for business professionals in the United States. This university-level club provides the standard opportunities available to participants, including leadership opportunities, professional development and network building.

NCAA leadership development has created a four-part virtual series that will educate student-athletes on the power they have and how they can use it to effectively enact meaningful change. Weekly sessions will be engaging and center on action, preparing student-athletes to be effective change leaders on campus and within their communities.

A Higher Education Hub Empowering the Region’s Global Agenda The Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC) builds international awareness, global competence and advanced language capacity in higher education, the private & public sector and the K-12 community to empower the region’s global agenda. AGSC prioritizes and integrates principles of Education for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

The Big Ideas program gives students the opportunity to look at societal issues such as immigration, voting rights and environmental regulations through a critical lens that seeks to expose systemic racism, sexism, homophobia and classism. Presented with background information about current events, students analyze the problems from multiple perspectives and consider possible actions they can take towards resolving the social issues.