We are a diverse network of people and organizations.
We work together to accelerate transformational change in higher education settings.
We do this so that all college students have the opportunity to thrive and flourish.
Purpose
The purpose of this network is to accelerate transformational change to:
- Improve student wellbeing now to improve lives for a lifetime
- Remove wellbeing related barriers to learning and academic achievement
- Create equitable higher education conditions for all students to thrive and flourish
These audacious goals call for unprecedented collaboration and unprecedented action. The network catalyzes impact by focusing on:
- who is involved in changemaking through unprecedented co-leadership, collaboration, and co-production of changes
- how we create change through the use of improvement science, human centered design, and innovation methods
- what changes get made by addressing root causes and shifting from department-level projects to systems-based approaches with a portfolio of promising solutions
We aim to build institutions of higher education that are committed to student thriving and wellbeing as a key condition and purpose of higher education and thereby significantly:
- Increase the proportion of students who are flourishing and reduce the proportion of students who experience significant psychological distress.
- Reduce the proportion of students whose wellbeing negatively impacts their learning and/or academic achievement.
- Narrow disparities in wellbeing outcomes among subpopulations of students who are impacted by inequitable conditions.
Our Shared Values
We are interconnected in this journey of unprecedented collaboration and action in pursuit of unprecedented results. Our Shared Values ground our ability to lead together to co-create impactful change through the power of our mindsets and how we relate to ourselves and one another.
We are…
- all teachers, all learners, and all leaders
- continuously curious and always questioning
- pursuing radical transformation
- accepting of responsibly failing forward as individuals and systems
- widely sharing and spreading our discoveries
- redefining what’s possible