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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.
 

Independent Research Links Foundations of Excellence Process to Significant Gains in Retention as Tracked Through IPEDS

An analysis of first-year retention rates for the 132 institutions that participated in the Foundations of Excellence® self-study process from 2003 through 2008.

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Snapshots of the FoE Experience provided by past participants that have completed the self study
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The John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, strives to improve the beginning college experience for both first year and transfer students.

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