Gordon State’s Higgins Honored At 2021 First-Year Experience Conference
Peter Higgins, Assistant Vice President of Academic Excellence at Gordon State College, was recognized by The National Resource Center for First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the 41st annual conference of The First-Year Experience on February 12-15, 2021.
With the support and co-sponsorship of Cengage, Higgins was recognized along with nine other honorees from across the nation for their involvement and impact in high-impact practices for first-year student success.
“It’s an unbelievable honor to be recognized by an organization that has had such a huge influence on my career,” said Higgins, who was nominated for the honor by Dr. C. Jeffery Knighton, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at GSC. “Although my name is in the conference program, this is actually a team award. It reflects the fantastic—and difficult—work the entire Gordon State College Academic Excellence team does
Higgins was born in Boston, Mass., and earned a master’s degree in English from Memphis State University in 1991. He started at Gordon in 2001 as adjunct English faculty and moved into the Director of Student Success position in 2008 to over the College’s new Student Success Center.
In 2017, Higgins was promoted to his current Assistant Vice President of Academic Excellence position, in which he oversees all academic support programs; Gordon State’s First-Year Momentum Program; GSC’s Minority Advising Program; GSC’s Honors Program; and the Hightower Collaborative Learning Center and Library.