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Lindsey selected for national effort dedicated to student success Lindsey Wilson College has joined a national effort to improve college students' success. The college has joined the Gardner Institute's Transforming the Foundational Postsecondary Experience initiative. Launched in fall 2023, Transforming the Foundational Postsecondary Experience aims to close performance gaps and improve student success in ways that move toward eliminating factors such as ZIP codes as the best predictors of who graduates. The initiative is partially funded by support from Ascendium Education Group, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ECMC Foundation, Lumina Foundation and The Kresge Foundation. The Gardner Institute initiative started with 11 schools, and Lindsey Wilson is among nine additional schools - five of which are from Kentucky - chosen to participate in the project. The nine additional schools collectively enroll over 19,000 undergraduate students. Nearly half (47%) of the students receive a federal Pell Grant; about one-third (33.4%) of the students identify as either African American, Hispanic, Indigenous or two or more races. "Lindsey Wilson is proud to be working with the Gardner Institute to improve our student success efforts," said Lindsey Wilson Vice President for Academic Affairs Ray Lutgring. "Our mission calls for us to ensure that every Lindsey Wilson student has the opportunity to be successful, no matter the challenges they face. The Gardner Institute will help us identify and remove any roadblocks preventing our students from graduating." The Kentucky schools in the new cohort - Lindsey Wilson, Bellarmine University, Kentucky State University, Simmons College of Kentucky and Thomas More University - are participating in the work in conjunction with efforts underway with the Kentucky Student Success Collaborative and support from Lumina Foundation. "Colleges and universities must have high expectations for their students. They must also have high expectations for how they teach and support the students they serve," said Gardner Institute Chief Executive Officer Andrew (Drew) Koch. "These nine institutions join the 11 colleges and universities in the first cohort in making a long-term commitment to focusing on what they control, who they serve, and building a more effective undergraduate experience where every student they admit can thrive." Over the next five years, the schools will collaborate closely with the Gardner Institute to create and implement strategies aimed at fostering a more successful postsecondary experience. "By the end of the initiative, institutions are expected to be well on their way to removing demographics and zip codes as the primary determinants of who succeeds in and graduates from college," said Koch. The John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Higher Education is a North Carolina-based non-profit, mission-driven organization that partners with colleges, universities, philanthropic organizations, and others to create and implement strategic plans for student success that improve teaching, learning, retention, and completion. Through doing so, the institute strives to advance higher education's larger social mobility and justice goals. This story was posted on 2025-01-30 10:49:17
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