Best Practices
Exemplary campus initiatives advancing student wellbeing at scale
About Best Practices
The Best Practice Repository features exemplary initiatives from LearningWell Coalition member institutions. Each highlighted program reflects the Coalition’s mission to prepare students to flourish in work and life, demonstrates measurable impact on mission-related outcomes, and reaches the majority of students at the institution or is actively scaling toward that goal.
UF Quest at University of Florida
UF Quest is the University of Florida’s signature core education program, a transformational, four-part sequence of interdisciplinary learning experiences that challenge students to wrestle with life’s most important questions, explore real-world issues through a scientific lens, apply their learning in the world, and reflect on how their education shapes who they are becoming.Grounded in a […]
University of Florida
Work+ at Arizona State University
Arizona State University’s Work+ framework reimagines student employment as a high-impact, developmental learning experience that integrates work and learning. Rather than treating campus jobs as transactional, Work+ positions student employees as “working learners” and intentionally connects their roles to career readiness, skill development, and long-term goals. Launched in 2020, Work+ expands access to experiential learning […]
Arizona State University
The Center for Purposeful Work at Bates College
Launched in 2014, Bates College’s Purposeful Work program has drawn national recognition for its approach to student development and career preparation. It is rooted in the core principles of the liberal arts, has curricular and co-curricular aspects, and takes a four-year, developmental approach to working with students with a dedicated staff focusing on exploration as […]
Bates College
Research Learning Experiences (RLE) at University of Maine
The UMS TRANSFORMS Student Success and Retention Initiative, with funding from a grant provided by the Harold Alfond Foundation, supports a developmental pathway based upon three sub-initiatives: Research Learning Experiences (RLEs), Gateways to Success (GTS), and Pathways to Careers (PTC). The Research Learning Experiences (RLE) program is a signature sub-initiative of the University of Maine […]
University of Maine System
The 4D Experience at the University of Denver
The Four-Dimensional (4D) Experience is a university-wide strategic imperative at the University of Denver that prepares students for lifelong learning, engagement, and flourishing. It does so through nurturing students’ growth across the four dimensions of intellect, character, well-being, and purpose, both in and out of the classroom. Championed by senior leadership, the initiative focuses on […]
University of Denver