The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most identifies successful practices in undergraduate education worthy of adoption by others. The foreword, written by Freeman A. Hrabowski III, President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, highlights two overarching ideas that serve as the foundation for the book’s six themes. The first is that successful institutions have a culture of ‘positive restlessness’, which is a concept discussed by George Kuh and his co-authors in Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter. Hrabowski describes institutions with positive restlessness as those that are ‘constantly seeking and striving to improve, determined not to be satisfied’ (p. viii). The second overarching idea is ‘optimism at a time when we need it more than ever’ due to the challenges facing higher education (p. viii). While the authors acknowledge the existence of obstacles that make success difficult, they still believe it is possible to achieve excellence.
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