Helping students communicate their stories while advancing their academic and professional careers.
Marisa Anne Pagnattaro — UGA Vice President for Instruction and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Planning
The future of the workplace is changing. As technology develops new jobs and replaces old ones, the value of foundational skills will become even more important. Increasingly, employers are prioritizing skills such as analytical thinking, creative thinking, communication, and leadership. We know students are already learning these skills through their courses and activities, and we want to help them articulate them. We want to change students’ educational experience and motivate them to acquire these life-long skills while working toward their degree.
The Comprehensive Learner Record at UGA is the new digital credential that will combine students’ courses and activities, highlighting their validated achievements and competencies. This platform will be woven into students’ learning journeys from day one, helping all UGA students, from undergraduates to graduates, communicate their stories while advancing their academic and professional careers.
UGA is the first university to implement a CLR on such a large scale.
University supported and validated.
A full range of learning experiences.
Available to all undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
The Comprehensive Learner Record, or CLR, is designed to help students connect their experiences, both in and out of the classroom, to UGA's new Institutional Competencies. These six competencies, Critical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Communication, Social Awareness & Responsibility, Creativity & Innovation, and Leadership & Collaboration, cover a spectrum of learning experiences and will help students visualize and document their professional growth.
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
The capacity to engage in the relational process of optimizing personal and collective strengths toward a common goal.
Students will begin using their CLR Portal starting their first day at UGA. As students complete courses and activities, their CLR Dashboard will track their progress and help them navigate future opportunities. Through the Portal, students will be able to easily search for opportunities, filtering by courses and/or activities, and by each of the six Institutional Competencies. The competencies will also appear in Athena and the Bulletin, ensuring students can find and register for the opportunities that work best for their educational path.
At any time, students can create a customizable Comprehensive Learner Record to share online or in person. Students have full control over their CLR and will be able to decide what is and is not included. The Comprehensive Learner Record will help students emphasize their most impressive and relevant competencies and achievements as they put together job applications or build their portfolios. There will be no limit to how students modify their CLR – it is a tool to help students put their best foot forward and stand out from the competition.
When UGA students share their customized CLR with employers, the employers will be able to access a link to view the highlights and dig into details on every competency, course, and activity included. If a student chooses not to include one of the competencies or particular courses or activities from their shared CLR, the employer will not see it.