Goal 4: Quality Education

Goal: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

UGA is working to address UN Sustainable Development Goals through focused research, teaching, service, and stewardship on campus, across the state, and around the globe. Some examples of how students, faculty, and staff are addressing Goal #4 are listed below.

Experiential Learning Requirement

UGA is one of nation’s largest public universities to require each of our undergraduate students to participate in experiential learning such as internships, research, study abroad, and service-learning. These types of activities have been linked to greater engagement, more in-depth learning, and higher graduation rates.

Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE)

Using a multidimensional, cultural-historical framework focused on reducing academic achievement gaps, CLASE provides professional development and resources for K-12 educators, outreach support through mentoring and tutoring, program support in developing a pipeline to post-secondary education, and research to inform educators on ways to improve teaching and learning.

Robotics Outreach in Tanzania

Using lesson plans developed by faculty in the Mary Frances Early College of Education and translated into Kiswahili, the project empowered Tanzanian educators to train others in their country and grow the robotics curriculum—something that can have large-scale economic impacts for the country as a whole. The curriculum also has been used in the U.S., China, Korea, and Honduras.

Red Clay Writing Project

Housed in the Mary Frances Early College of Education, the Red Clay Writing Project is a professional learning community for teacher educators. All Red Clay Writing Project activities are open to P-16 teachers interested in learning more about writing as teachers, writing pedagogy, writing communities, social justice, classroom-based inquiry, and teacher leadership.