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Georgia is one of three states to receive a $1 million grant to help
students in high-demand fields graduate on time.
Recently, Gov. Nathan Deal announced that the Lumina Foundation
and Complete College America would be awarding this grant to
provide assistance for the state’s “Guided Pathways to Success”
program, designed to reduce the amount of unnecessary credits
students accumulate and push students toward graduating within
four years, as opposed to six. Helping students toward the four-year
mark, GPS offers streamlined scheduling, advising and structured
degrees. The GPS program is currently used at Georgia State
University and has increased graduation rates by 20 percent in the
last 10 years.
The $1 million in grant funding would not only reduce the amount
of debt students incur, but it would benefit the Complete College
Georgia initiative which, having launched three years ago, aims to
increase the number of college graduates in the state by 250,000 by
the year 2020.
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