Now more than ever in challenging economic times, your campus needs a strategic action plan for the critical beginning college experience. Foundations of Excellence® will yield a new vision for enhanced learning and retention of first-year and transfer students as well as priorities for resource allocation. APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 24th.

 

NEW! Focus on Transfer Students

The Policy Center is pleased to announce an expansion of the Foundations of Excellence self-study and action-planning process that will address collegiate transfer.

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The Policy Center on the First Year of College, a constituent unit of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, strives to improve the beginning college experience for both first year and transfer students.

2,327 participants provide their views about the FoE process…

 

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