The Catherine Connection: Building a Learning Culture

Abstract

In 1991, the College of St. Catherine, a Catholic college for women in St. Paul, Minnesota, set out to improve recruitment and retention. It soon become clear that they couldn't seriously make improvements without taking a good, hard look at what the college did—and didn't—offer students. So, they turned to the bigger job of examining and building a new culture of learning. Here's what that effort looked like.