The Gateway Program is a faculty-led effort to improve student learning and retention in courses with high enrollments of first-year students. It represents a collaboration among the Office for Professional Development, University College, academic departments that offer Gateway courses, and units such as the Office of Information Management and Institutional Research, the Office of Student Life and Diversity, the Diversity Inquiry Group, and the Office of Enrollment Management. The program includes faculty development offerings, a series of Gateway Forums open to all members of the campus community, a Web Forum for exchanging information on successful strategies and best practices, course and curriculum revision, and Structured Learning Assistance. The success of the two-year-old effort in improving student retention led to national recognition by the Theodore M. Hesburgh Award program in February of this year.
Information on the program is available on the Web sites linked above. To view a recent PowerPoint presentation on the program"s impact on retention, click here. For a presentation on revised courses, click here(PowerPoint) . For examples of revised courses, click example 1, example 2, or example 3. To read the materials on the program submitted for the Hesburgh Award, click here.
