| NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practices |
| The
National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the American
Association for Higher Education (AAHE) are launching the Documenting
Effective Educational Practices (DEEP) project. Project DEEP
will plumb the everyday workings of high performing colleges
and universities to learn what they do to promote student success.
The effort is the first in what will be a series of activities
undertaken by the NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practices
to respond to the national concern to improve the quality of
undergraduate education. Specifically, Project DEEP aims to
discover the programs, policies and practices of colleges and
universities that successfully engage their students in learning
activities and have strong graduation rates.
Over the next two years Project DEEP researchers will look closely at about 20 colleges and universities. The schools will be selected based on their better-than-predicted performance on the annual National Survey of Student Engagement and their higher-than-predicted graduation rates. Thus, the institutions are doing something rare and important in that they are clearly adding value to the student experience. Institutions selected for Project DEEP will be announced Fall, 2002. Project DEEP and the NSSE Institute are supported by a $1.3 million grant from Lumina Foundation for Education, a private, independent foundation dedicated to expanding access to higher education nationwide. Additional support for selected NSSE Institute activities is being provided by The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN). The Center serves as a catalyst for reshaping liberal arts education in the 21st century. Among the other organizations endorsing the DEEP project are The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. For more in |
