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Explore the breadth of work from Frontier Set institutions, intermediaries, and support partners. Read about Guided Pathways implementation at community colleges, learn how HBCUs built a collaborative learning community, access an online open-source course on the principles of transformation, and browse more insights from the 29 colleges and universities committed to pursuing institutional transformation.
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Key Findings From the Frontier Set: Institutional Transformation Among 29 Colleges and Two State Systems
In this report, the American Institutes for Research® (AIR®), which served as the research and learning partner for the Frontier Set initiative, presents key findings for transformation as a change process to create more equitable student outcomes.
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Completion By Design + Frontier Set Learning Study
Through interviews and documentation review, ASA Research conducted this retrospective analysis focusing on factors that enabled institutional transformation, the evolution of equity, and how the CBD/FS frameworks influenced policies and practices related to closing racial equity gaps.
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Designing for Transformation: Insights From Frontier Set Institutions
The Aspen Institute gained a deeper understanding of how community colleges advanced student success and equity strategies through the Frontier Set. This report summarizes key learnings from those institutions about how institutional capacities and integrated approaches further transformation.
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Dynamics of Institutional Transformation: Observations of Research Institutions’ Efforts to Transform for More Equitable Student Outcomes
The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) provides an overview of learning from the Frontier Set in partnership with the University of Central Florida, Arizona State University, and Georgia State University.
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Reflections on Transformation: Perspectives From the Frontier Set (2020)
This compilation includes insights distilled from the reflections of Frontier Set institutions and intermediaries, focused on equity-centered strategies in transformation. It also includes a set of editorials written by Frontier Set intermediaries providing first-person perspectives on institutional transformation efforts.
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Transforming Together: The HBCU Frontier Set Experience
This report details the journeys of the six HBCUs in the Frontier Set through institutional transformation, and the role the HBCU Intermediary Team played in supporting their successes.
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Working Together for Equitable Student Outcomes: State of the Frontier Set (2018)
This report provides an overview of the Frontier Set in 2018 and highlights common themes that had emerged about institutional transformation. These themes were gleaned from annual reflections from the Frontier Set institutions and include the network’s student-centered mission, their data-informed decision making, and what it means for institutions to transform.