Collaborative learning promotes behavior expected after college. Provide considerable time on task. Respect diverse talents and ways of knowing. Not all students learn the same way. Making a student conform to the predominant curriculum may militate against success.
Diversity challenges the curriculum to represent learning in multiple, coherent, purposeful forms. .
Increase informal contact with students. A minority of students' time is spent in the classroom. Students value the mentoring and advice offered by faculty outside the classroom. Make the curriculum and extracurriculum work together to support student learning. . Give special attention to the early years.