Freethinking Higher Education

Freethinking Higher Education

Beyond Band-Aids

Building proactive learning centers that transform college readiness

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Robin Capehart
Dec 08, 2025
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Colleges today face a crisis of readiness. Far too many students arrive on campus underprepared for the demands of higher education, and the prevailing institutional response has often been to lower academic standards in the name of retention. This approach, however, undermines the value of a college degree and fails to address the root causes of studen…

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