Initial Research Project

The initial research project consisted of seven mentor institutions, each of which agreed to work with three institutions (mentee institutions) over a two-year span. Mentee institutions committed to work towards achieving the student-success related goals they set for the two-year project. Each group of one mentor institution and three mentee institutions was referred to as a pod. The pods were identified in the fall of 2016.

Throughout the next two years the participants, in the form of pods, met in a variety of ways to discuss goals and progress on issues related to campus culture change and equity gap reduction.

After the two-year project, many lessons were discovered and key levers were identified in a final report .