Students at Georgia Highlands College (GHC) recently named one faculty and one staff member as the college\u2019s \u201cAdvising is Teaching Award\u201d winners. Students chose Assistant Professor of Biology Brandy Rogers, who was named \u201cFaculty Advisor of the Year,\u201d and Academic Advisor Josh Grant, who was named \u201cProfessional Advisor of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese award nominations are submitted by students,\u201d college Quality Enhancement Program Coordinator Elizabeth Tanner said. \u201cWith the nominations, we get to see all the important ways staff and faculty advisors have an impact on our students. These nominations are an important reminder of the quality and high-caliber advising that a student receives when they come to GHC, and we are helping students meet their educational goals and find a pathway to graduation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The \u201cAdvising is Teaching Award\u201d program is part of GHC\u2019s ongoing \u201cQuest for Success\u201d advising mission.<\/p>\n
The college\u2019s Quality Enhancement plan (QEP), titled \u201cQuest for Success,\u201d places advising at the forefront of student academic and personal success. Quest for Success aims to increase the value of the student experience at GHC by emphasizing advising as a core component of learning at GHC. By creating required advising activities, GHC students participate in on-going, goal-focused advising, helping students on the path to graduation.<\/p>\n
GHC students choose Brandy Rogers as the \u201cFaculty Advisor of the Year.\u201d Rogers is an assistant professor of biology. She said her favorite aspect of advising is seeing students gain a renewed sense of clarity and determination, helping them to see the clearest path to achieving their goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdvising students is an important part of what faculty at GHC do,\u201d Rogers said. She began advising students during her first year as an instructor. \u201cAdvising students gives us the opportunity to encourage students, to help them see their potential and to help them realize that their dreams are within reach. For me, being a part of a student\u2019s journey and helping them design and carry out their plans is very rewarding.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
GHC students choose Josh Grant as the \u201cProfessional Advisor of the Year.\u201d Grant serves as an academic advisor, but he originally started teaching until he discovered a passion to help students through advising full time.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter teaching for the better part of a decade, I discovered that there was a whole profession dedicated to helping students in the ways that I had been helping them outside of normal class work,\u201d Grant said. \u201cI could spend all day helping students at the exact moment when they needed help getting a clearer picture of what their options were and what they needed to do to accomplish their goals. Teaching outside the classroom \u2013 that\u2019s what led me to professional advising.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Both Rogers and Grant serve on GHC\u2019s Cartersville site and see the recognition as an example of how GHC puts students first and how important quality advising is at the college.<\/p>\n
Please visit highlands.edu<\/a> to learn more about GHC\u2019s \u201cQuest for Success\u201d advising mission.<\/a><\/p>\n
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