IDEA BANK (paraphrases from TCDS)
• Every student can learn anything under the right conditions. • Will student learning be improved? • Programs are merely the vessels; people are the wine. • He was . . . the poster child for grit. • He had to take remedial math, which left him wondering whether he was good enough to be at the university. • A college education gives students intellectual capital and social capital. • Our job is to provide you an opportunity; your job is to take advantage of it. • What can you expect? /What they can become? • It’s the happy face the university puts on an artificial intelligence system that messages students to keep them focused once the school year begins. • Telling students how experience alters the architecture of the brain could lead them to adopt a growth mindset. • Having someone who is a year or two older than you deliver this message makes an immense difference. • Data analytics and short psychological interventions are attractive to administrators because they don’t intrude upon the lives of deans and professors. • Each autumn, about 40 percent of all first-time college students enroll in community colleges…more than 80 percent of them say that earning a BA is their goal.
• The data also showed that new-gen students are reluctant to seek help from their professors, so the university hired upperclassmen as tutors. • 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.
Submitted:
Approved for submittal to the Board:
Linda Schactler Chief of Staff
James L. Gaudino President
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