May 21, 2026

UNC Asheville joins Advancing Student Success: Strategic Prioritization for Student Success. Offered in partnership with the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), this commitment will help the institution reinforce their commitment ot student success with a focus on key areas including career readiness.

“My Gardner Institute colleagues and I are honored and excited to partner with UNC Asheville and COPLAC in this important work,” said Andrew (Drew) Koch, chief executive officer of the Gardner Institute. “Our experience — supported by external evaluation of our work — shows that programs, while necessary, are not enough on their own to produce lasting gains in student learning and success. Institutions make the greatest progress when they develop and implement a comprehensive plan for student success. This effort will help UNC Asheville bring together strong existing work into a more coherent  whole, informed by the Institutional Transformation Assessment and the collective wisdom and  contextual knowledge of its faculty and staff.”

Learn about how this partnership supports faculty and staff in reinforcing their commitment to student success: