There’s good news and bad for colleges wanting to enhance undergraduate education, based on a new book on the subject: you’ve already got everything you need and you’ve already got everything you need. The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most(Jossey-Bass) contains no quick fixes, no gimmicks and, well, nothing really new. But its five authors draw upon their decades of experience studying successful undergraduate programs to distill their common features into six themes — themes that the book argues can be applied across all manner of institutions working toward excellence.
