Student success in college: creating conditions that matter

Student engagement: a key to student success

Properties and conditions common to educationally effective colleges

"Living" mission and "lived" educational philosophy

An unshakeable focus on student learning

Environments adapted for educational enrichment

Clear pathways to student success

An improvement-oriented ethos

Shared responsibility for educational quality and student success

Effective practices used at deep colleges and universities

Academic challenge

Active and collaborative learning

Student-faculty interaction

Enriching educational experiences

Supportive campus environment

Part Four: Summary and recommendations

Principles for promoting student success.

Student engagement: a key to student success

Why effective educational practice matters

Documenting effective educational practice (DEEP)

Keep in mind

No single blueprint for student success

Properties and conditions common to educationally effective colleges

"Living" mission and "Lived" educational philosophy

Mission

Operating philosophy

Meet the DEEP schools

Making space for difference

Mission clarity : "Tell me again

what are we about?"

Summary

What's noteworthy about a living mission and lived educational philosophy

An unshakeable focus on student learning

Valuing undergraduates and their learning

Experimenting with engaging pedagogies

Demonstrating a cool passion for talent development

Making time for students

Feedback: improving performance, connecting students and faculty

What's noteworthy about focusing on student learning

Environments adapted for educational enrichment

Using the setting for teaching and learning

Creating human scale learning environments

What's noteworthy about adapting environments for educations advantage.

Clear pathways to student success

Acculturation

What new students need to know

Affirming diversity

Alignment

What's noteworthy about creating pathways to student success

An improvement-oriented ethos

Realizing the vision: the University of Texas at El Paso

Making student success a priority: Fayetteville State University

Investing in undergraduate education: the University of Michigan

Fostering institutional renewal: University of Maine at Farmington

Championing learning communities: Wofford College

Creating a campuswide intellectual community: Ursinus College

Positive restlessness

Curriculum development

Data-informed decision making

What's noteworthy about innovating and improving

Shared responsibility for educational quality and student success

Leadership

Faculty and staff diversity

Student affairs: a key partner in promoting student success

Fostering student agency

The power of one

What's noteworthy about sharing responsibility for educational quality

Effective practices used at DEEP colleges and universities

Academic challenge

High expectations for student performance

Extensive writing, reading, and class preparation

Rigorous culminating experience for seniors

Celebration of scholarship.

Active and collaborative learning

Learning to learn actively

Learning from peers

Learning in communities

Serving and learning in the local community

Responding to diverse learning styles

Student-faculty interaction

Accessible and responsive faculty

Academic advising

Undergraduate research

Electronic technologies

Enriching educational experiences

Infusion of diversity experiences

International and study abroad

Electronic technologies

Civic engagement

Internships and experiential learning

Cucurricular leadership

Supportive campus environment

Transition programs

Advising networks

Peer support

Multiple safety nets

Special support programs

Residential environments

Principles for promoting student success

Tried and true

Sleepers

Fresh ideas

Perennial challenges

Organizing for student success

Research methods

Project DEEP Research Team

National survey of student engagement.