The Best Place to Learn: How Leaders Can Transform College Teaching and Student Success

A comprehensive look at how colleges and universities can improve support for teaching at the institutional level and deliver the transformative learning experiences we promise The Best Place to Learn is a guide for higher education leaders who want to foster a culture of evidence-informed teaching and transformative learning at their institutions.Joe O'Shea, Leslie Richardson, and Jen Bartman provide readers with a blueprint for facilitating institutional change, drawn from extensive education research and their experience enhancing teaching support in ways that drove award-winning graduation rates at Florida State University. While teaching and learning are at the heart of any college's mission, competing priorities make it difficult for leaders to focus on supporting faculty in their teaching.To assist leaders in creating the kinds of learning experiences they want to provide, the authors supply a self-assessment tool to identify institutional strengths and areas for growth.They the