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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Student Engagement: A Key to Student Success | |
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| Why Effective Educational Practice Matters | |
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| Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) | |
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| Keep in Mind | |
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| No Single Blueprint for Student Success | |
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| Properties and Conditions Common to Educationally Effective Colleges | |
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| "Living" Mission and "Lived" Educational Philosophy | |
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| Mission | |
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| Operating Philosophy | |
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| Meet the DEEP Schools | |
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| Making Space for Difference | |
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| Mission Clarity: "Tell Me Again-What Are We About? " | |
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| Summary | |
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| What's Noteworthy about a Living Mission and Lived Educational Philosophy | |
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| An Unshakeable Focus on Student Learning | |
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| Valuing Undergraduates and Their Learning | |
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| Experimenting with Engaging Pedagogies | |
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| Demonstrating a Cool Passion for Talent Development | |
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| Making Time for Students | |
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| Feedback: Improving Performance, Connecting Students and Faculty | |
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| Summary | |
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| What's Noteworthy about Focusing on Student Learning | |
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| Environments Adapted for Educational Enrichment | |
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| Using the Setting for Teaching and Learning | |
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| Creating Human-Scale Learning Environments | |
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| What's Noteworthy about Adapting Environments for Educational Advantage | |
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| Clear Pathways to Student Success | |
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| Acculturation | |
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| What New Students Need to Know | |
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| Affirming Diversity | |
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| Alignment | |
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| What's Noteworthy about Creating Clear Pathways to Student Success | |
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| An Improvement-Oriented Ethos | |
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| Realizing the Vision: The University of Texas at El Paso | |
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| Making Student Success a Priority: Fayetteville State University | |
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| Investing in Undergraduate Education: The University of Michigan | |
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| Fostering Institutional Renewal: University of Maine at Farmington | |
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| Championing Learning Communities: Wofford College | |
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| Creating a Campuswide Intellectual Community: Ursinus College | |
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| Positive Restlessness | |
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| Curriculum Development | |
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| Data-Informed Decision Making | |
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| Summary | |
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| What's Noteworthy About Innovating and Improving | |
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| Shared Responsibility for Educational Quality and Student Success | |
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| Leadership | |
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| Faculty and Staff Diversity | |
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| Student Affairs: A Key Partner in Promoting Student Success | |
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| Fostering Student Agency | |
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| The Power of One | |
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| What's Noteworthy about Sharing Responsibility for Educational Quality | |
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| Effective Practices Used at Deep Colleges and Universities | |
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| Academic Challenge | |
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| High Expectations for Student Performance | |
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| Extensive Writing, Reading, and Class Preparation | |
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| Rigorous Culminating Experience for Seniors | |
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| Celebrations of Scholarship | |
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| Summary | |
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| Active and Collaborative Learning | |
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| Learning to Learn Actively | |
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| Learning from Peers | |
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| Learning in Communities | |
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| Serving and Learning in the Local Community | |
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| Responding to Diverse Learning Styles | |
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| Summary | |
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| Student-Faculty Interaction | |
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| Accessible and Responsive Faculty | |
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| Academic Advising | |
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| Undergraduate Research | |
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| Electronic Technologies | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enriching Educational Experiences | |
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| Infusion of Diversity Experiences | |
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| International and Study Abroad | |
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| Electronic Technologies | |
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| Civic Engagement | |
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| Internships and Experiential Learning | |
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| Cocurricular Leadership | |
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| Summary | |
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| Supportive Campus Environment | |
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| Transition Programs | |
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| Advising Networks | |
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| Peer Support | |
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| Multiple Safety Nets | |
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| Special Support Programs | |
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| Residential Environments | |
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| Summary | |
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| Summary and Recommendations | |
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| Principles for Promoting Student Success | |
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| Tried and True | |
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| Sleepers | |
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| Fresh Ideas | |
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| Perennial Challenges | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Organizing for Student Success | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Advancing the Student Success Agenda | |
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| Drifting Off Course | |
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| Sustaining Effective Educational Practice | |
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| Campus Culture and Sustaining High Performance | |
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| Final Word | |
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| References | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Research Methods | |
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| Project DEEP Research Team | |
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| National Survey of Student Engagement | |
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| Index | |