Our Title III Grant application featured an activity plan entitled The Learners and Leaders Project. This plan consisted of three interrelated Components:

1. Redesigned general education core: The redesigned general education core will involve faculty teams who will align syllabi with core learner outcomes, use active teaching strategies and technology, and develop instructionally-based assessments.

2. Integrated leadership and career development: An Integrated Leadership and Career Development effort (named Women as Empowered Learners and Leaders [WELL]) will bring together cross-component teams to develop a laddered leadership model across the four years of the baccalaureate designed to engage students and prepare them as 21st century leaders.

3. Unified student support services: A Learning Commons will consolidate a suite of unified support services configured to promote project-based and collaborative learning as well as offer technology-assisted instruction and skill development to improve persistence from the point of contact through graduation.