How is the Gardner Institute different from the University of South Carolinas National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition?
The Policy Center (now Gardner Institute), founded in 1999, is a direct outgrowth of the USC National Center, founded in 1986. In granting the original funding for the Policy Center, The Pew Charitable Trusts envisioned that the Policy Center would complement and not duplicate the work of the National Resource Center. The Center at USC was founded by John Gardner who remains a Senior Fellow in that Center and who is the President of the Gardner Institute. The Gardner Institute’s Vice President and Senior Scholar, Betsy O. Barefoot, also holds an appointment as Fellow of the USC Center. Both centers work collaboratively in designing, organizing, hosting a number of joint initiatives for the improvement of the first college year. While the USC Center is focused on a wide range of undergraduate improvement initiatives and the dissemination thereof, the Gardner Institute’s focus is much more narrowly confined to one signature effort, the Foundations of Excellence self-study and improvement
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