REMINDER: PART 1 COMPLETION DEADLINE APPROACHING! PART 1 SECTIONS SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2019.
Dear New GHC Student,
As you may or may not already know, the University System of Georgia (of which Georgia Highlands College is a part) has partnered with EVERFI, whose mission is to help students address critical life skills such as alcohol abuse prevention, sexual assault prevention, and financial literacy in higher education institutions across the country. Each year over 1,500,000 students and employees complete these courses nationwide, and every student at all USG institutions are required to complete these courses during their time at any state institution of higher education.
As part of our comprehensive prevention program for new students, Georgia Highlands College expects you to complete AlcoholEdu and Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates (or Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate/Adult Students). This online education will empower you to make well-informed decisions about issues that affect your years at GHC and beyond.
BOTH AlcoholEdu and Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates modules are required for all new students under the age of 21.
Only Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate/Adult Students is required for all new students aged 21 or older.
All NEW students at GHC for Fall 2019 are required to complete these modules within the allotted deadlines to prevent a hold from being potentially put on your SCORE account. If you are a continuing student, you may want to check your completion status by logging into your EverFi account to make sure you have completed both sections of the required module(s).
AlcoholEdu and the Sexual Assault Prevention modules are all immediately available to you. We encourage you to go ahead and complete Part 1 before classes begin. A reminder message will be sent after the start of fall semester classes, and again prior to the Part 1 completion deadline.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:
You are expected to complete the age-appropriate modules: both AlcoholEdu and Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates if you are under the age of 21; or only Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate/Adult Students if you are age 21 or older. You will need one EverFi Higher Education Account to access the course(s) from your dashboard.
To fulfill Georgia Highlands College’s requirement:
- Go to: http://www.everfi.com/login and click Register
- Under “Student/Learner,” enter the Registration Code: ed4dfb65 if you are under the age of 21; or 1c6ae480 if you are aged 21 or older, and click “Next” to create your EverFi account
- Complete Part 1 of AlcoholEdu and Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates, or Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate/Adult Students, by SEPTEMBER 30, 2019.
- After 30-45 days you will receive an invitation to complete Part 2 of AlcoholEdu and Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduates, or Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate/Adult Students, which must be completed by NOVEMBER 15, 2019.
*If you already have an EverFi Higher Ed Account, go to http://www.everfi.com/login, enter your login information, then enter the age-appropriate registration code in the “Add a Course” box in the top right corner of the Dashboard.
Other Important Information:
- You will need Internet access and audio capabilities.
- To avoid technical issues, please use any major web browser (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome) released within the previous two years.
- You may take the course in multiple sittings. It will continue where you left off when you come back. Expect a minimum of 30-45 minutes per course to complete Part 1.
- The course may include surveys to help personalize your experience and measure participants’ attitudes and behaviors. All survey responses are confidential; the school will only receive information about the participant group as a whole and will never see individual answers.
- EVERFI has partnered with the National Domestic Violence Hotline to provide access to an anonymous “Chat with an Advocate” feature within this course. If at any time during the course you would like to chat with a trained Hotline advocate, you can click the “Chat with an Advocate” button. Advocates are available to chat every day from 8 a.m. – 1 a.m. Eastern Time. No identifiable information of learners using the chat feature will be collected by EVERFI nor shared back with GHC.
- Should you experience problems, technical support is available 24/7 and can be accessed from the “Help” link within the course or by visiting support.everfi.com.
Thank you, and enjoy the course!
Sincerely,
Office of the Vice President for Student Services
and Department of Student Life
John S. Spranza III, Ed.S
Director of Student Life
Georgia Highlands College
Dept. of Student Life
3175 Cedartown Hwy. SE
Rome, GA 30161
706-295-6363
jspranza@highlands.edu