There is no one-size-fits-all model to create the student-centric, transformative educational ecosystem to promote community and a sense of belonging: It is context and mission dependent. However, effective programs share many elements.
There’s no magic formula to creating inclusive curricula and the concomitant impacts on promoting student success and closing equity gaps. It will require a concerted, collaborative, all-hands-on-deck campus effort to remove structural barriers to the success of ALL students, but particularly those from disadvantaged and underrepresented groups.
As colleges and universities assess approaches to promoting student success, it may be worthwhile to consider the value proposition of higher education, which requires a reimagining and reengineering of higher education, laser-focused on student success and closing equity gaps, while ensuring accountability and transparency.
To ensure financial sustainability, colleges will need to employ a portfolio of approaches including a reimagining and reengineering of higher education, laser-focus on student success and closing equity gaps, while ensuring accountability and transparency. The key to achieving viability and sustainability is for colleges and universities will be to demonstrate the value proposition of higher education.
Academic institutions have continually adjusted to the changing landscape of the coronavirus, in the context of the fraught environment, NWCCU is helping create quantitative data and analytical systems and resources to identify benchmark quantitative and qualitative indicators
Affordability & Access: I owe, I owe, off to College I go
Justice. Equality. Equity. Diversity. Inclusion. While America has always aspired to these ideas, our approach to achieving the same has been fraught throughout our history.
NWCCU’s intent is to help create quantitative data and analytical systems along with a culture of quality.
We know from experiences with various segments of our economy that innovations without intentionality is a fool’s errand.
As colleges and universities continue to develop a path forward to ensure financial sustainability, it’d be worth remembering that the effort will be akin to that of a marathon and not a sprint. There are a number of options and concomitant actions institutional leadership might consider.