First year coursework is interdisciplinary, co-taught, and changes from year to year. Topics reflect research interests of professor, not survey courses. Stress outside activities and speaking skills. Students negotiates and completes a contract for 1 st year work. Surveys students to predict attrition, peer mentoring, builds students groups, employs intrusive intervention to stem attrition.
Faculty workshops to improve teaching.
Courses each cover the areas of evaluation and each course evals marks student progress. They train faculty from other institutions in this method.