In this report, Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions share first-year experiences of 2- and 4-year colleges piloting new versions of gateway courses incorporating adaptive learning in an effort to address achievement gaps for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color by improving teaching and learning…

Literature lacks the documentation of students' perceptions of classroom community, connectedness, and learning among freshman students in a first year seminar course. First year students enrolled in college have faced many challenges and difficulties throughout the years that continue to spark inventive measures to address them within higher…