Approach
Our Approach Empowers Learners And Institutions To Thrive No Matter Where They Are In Their Journeys.
Our Approach:
We guide rather than direct.
We’ll never prescribe a one-size-fits-all model. Wherever we enter the process, we help institution’s harness their greatest strengths and navigate their most pressing challenges.
We illuminate the data.
Data analysis isn’t just a task we check off the list. Data is a powerful tool we use from start to finish to explore student realities, uncover opportunities, set priorities, and assess progress.
We integrate the moving pieces.
We don’t lose the forest or the trees. Our process carefully balances the urgent need for progress with the strategic design and implementation of a seamless student experience.
We elevate the role of faculty.
Our process invites faculty to shape – not simply tolerate – the journey to completion. Faculty student relationships, subject matter expertise, and dedication to excellence enhance our work.
We build a foundation for lasting change.
We dive beneath the surface, building the commitment, capacities, and fundamental practices that set students and institutions up for enduring success.
We align student success with institutional success.
By prioritizing initiatives that reduce costs and increase graduations, we empower institutions to create exceptional, sustainable student experiences.
Successful Beginnings Lead to Successful Completions.
We synthesize decades of data and first-hand experience to help institutions focus on the drivers of student success.
Our Focus Areas:
Gateway Courses
Improving teaching, learning, and success in historically high-failure rate courses.RELATED SERVICES:
Curriculum Structures
Redesigning curriculum to improve equitable outcomes.RELATED SERVICES:
Teaching & Learning
Improving teaching, learning, and success in historically high-failure rate courses.RELATED SERVICES:
Retention
Engaging field-tested strategies to improve retention and completion rates.RELATED SERVICES:
Transfer
Exploring practices that build transfer-student success and retention.RELATED SERVICES:
First Year
Harnessing pivotal first-year determinants of student success.RELATED SERVICES:
Insights And Tools That Align Student Success And Institutional Health.
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