Academy on the First College Year

Conduct an institutional audit and develop a plan aimed at improving the experience of students in the first college year.

Invite our experts to deliver keynote speeches exploring the drivers of student success.

Find peer support, tools, and professional development that inspires leadership and innovation.

Use guided, intensive introspection to discover paths to improved retention, transfer, and completion.

The Curricular Analytics Community is designed to involve faculty and staff in a process that leverages improvement science and curricular analytics tools to identify opportunities for equitable curriculum redesign at their institutions. High curricular complexity has been correlated with low retention rates, extended time to graduation, and increased credit accumulation for students. 

The Gardner Institute is the host of the annual Symposium on Transforming the Postsecondary Experience and other conferences. We provide events both in-person and virtual throughout the year.

Podcasts, Lessons Learned, and other offerings all featuring Gardner Institute's staff talking to higher education experts on teaching, learning, retention, and course redesign.

Deans, Department Heads and Directors: Empowering Academic Deans to lead with confidence Leading Academic Units provides academic leaders in these roles the opportunity to learn strategies for leading and supporting student success efforts within and beyond their academic units. Regardless of the initiative that each community member has been tasked with leading, during their year […]

Learn with a community focused on redesigning and improving student academic experiences.