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"The council's advice to the president is to hang back for the time being and "let market forces decide which innovations in online teaching and learning are best," rather than leaping to subsidize a favorite."

"California State University is moving aggressively to offer web-based science labs, a systemwide virtual campus and online advising as remedies for "bottlenecks" that impede student progress and graduation rates, officials said Tuesday. Some of these efforts will be ready to roll out this fall. The detailed strategies were presented in a meeting of the Cal State Board of Trustees in Long Beach as a response to Gov. Jerry Brown's call for the Cal State and University of California systems to improve student performance in exchange for long-term funding increases."

"Codon Learning is a college science courseware developer that supports the practice of evidence-based teaching. Our student-centered approach applies active engagement, assessment, inclusivity, and analytics to improve learning outcomes. The company is advised by discipline-based education research professors, National Academy scientists, college presidents, and provosts."

An assessment model for undergraduates

"Career services are a natural evolution of focus for the student success movement. If we abandon low-income or first-generation students at graduation with a poorly designed handoff between college-to-career, we risk failing to deliver on the full promise of higher education," said Dr. Bridget Burns, Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance. "Strada Education Network understands that innovation starts with listening to, and understanding, the perspective of students. This project is about providing career services professionals with the capacity and time to redesign career readiness in order to better prepare students for an increasingly dynamic future of work.""