Collaborating for Change: Early Lessons in Redesigning First-Year Students’ College Experience

This brief details early lessons from MDRC’s OnPath project, which helps colleges redesign how first-year students experience enrollment, financial aid, registration, and academic planning. It shares insights that the MDRC team gleaned while developing and testing prototypes of student-facing resources, and includes interventions colleges can use to improve student persistence and collaboration across campus departments.

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