What is the Gardner Institutes relationship with Educational Benchmarking, Inc.?
EBI is a for-profit company focused on helping higher education improve its core functions through systematic surveying and data collection. EBI and the Gardner Institute were the co-developers of a benchmarking survey, the “First-Year Initiative,” designed to benchmark the effectiveness of first-year seminars. The Gardner Institute has a contractual partnership with EBI to deliver the Foundations of Excellence technology support, surveying, and data analysis infrastructure.