Includes bibliographical references and index.

What matters most -- Core themes -- We already have most of what we need -- Visions of the possible -- Using this book -- Learning matters -- Take institutional responsibility for student learning -- Create opportunities for learning in and out of the classroom -- Recognize the complexity of meaningful learning -- Help students integrate learning experiences -- Promote and reward learning for everyone at the institution -- Relationships matter -- Make relationships central to learning -- Create pathways to lead students into relationships with peers, faculty, and staff -- Nurture both learning and belonging through relationships -- Encourage everyone on campus to cultivate relationships -- Celebrate and reward relationship building -- Expectations matter --
Focus expectations on what matters most to student learning and success -- Communicate, and reiterate, high expectations --Set expectations early -- Implement policies and practices congruent with espoused expectations -- Help individuals and groups develop the capacity to set and meet their own expectations -- Alignment matters Make alignment a shared goal -- Align administrative practices and policies -- Align academic programs and campus practices -- Challenge students to align their learning -- Leverage the benefits of alignment -- Improvement matters -- Recognize that assessment is fundamental to improvement -- Focus assessment on improving what matters most -- Commit to using evidence to inform changes -- Involve everyone in the process of making change -- Adapt best practices from elsewhere -- Cultivate an ethos of positive restlessness -- Model the process of improvement for students and the institution -- Leadership matters -- Lead through collaborative practices -- Articulate clear, aspirational goals linked to institutional mission and values -- Cultivate a culture that keeps students and learning at the center of decision making -- Foster shared responsibility and leadership at all levels of the institution -- Make strategic choices and take informed risks -- Focus on dynamic, improvement-oriented planning, executing, and communicating -- Acting on what matters most -- Focus on institutional culture -- Make learning central -- Take action! do not allow constraints to stymie change --
An optimistic final note.

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