• When we changed the critical thinking class, the biggest in the university, from a flat-out lecture into a flipped class—watch lectures outside class on video, do group projects in class—we got a 17 percent increase in students’ grades. • Undergraduate tutors, embedded in over a thousand courses, are trained in the tools of belonging and growth mindset. • The Rutgers Honors Living Learning Community shows that students whom other universities wouldn’t give a second thought to will thrive if they get the kind of attention their peers at more prestigious places take for granted. • People learn truths about themselves, which is that they are what they do. • I’m in the TIP program because I went to a bad high school. • Like everyone else, professors respond to inducements, and the quality of instruction improved when the university introduced financial incentives, including a $7,500 salary boost, for excellence in the classroom. • The college is how the students experience us—which is why so much attention gets devoted to what’s happening in classrooms.
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