From commmunity colleges to R-1 universities, an ever-increasing number of our students enter our classrooms underprepared. How do we respond? In this session we argue that you can start at any level and have a meaningful impact. One presentation begins at the level of the classroom, with Learning Boot Camp. The other begins at the level of the college, with the Student Success Plan. Both presentations begin from the fact that most of our students come to us from an impoverished learning environment that offers a narrow range of learning opportunities, demands mostly lower-order thinking skills, and rewards a limited set of study skills and classroom behaviors. Students' ways of learning have developed randomly, and often counter-productively. Learning Boot Camp aims to remedy this by teaching students new methods of learning based on recent discoveries in cognitive science and neurobiology. The Student Success Plan seeks to change the ways students and faculty think about learning and to enhance students' success by surrounding them with an on-demand support system diversified enough to serve every student's learning needs in any discipline.
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