Apply for Membership
How It Works
1. Pre-application meeting
Schedule a meeting with us to discuss the process and choose or shape an initiative that fits the Coalition’s mission. E-mail dana@learningwell.org to get started!
2. Submit Application
Review the questions below and begin completing your application. If you save your progress, you’ll receive an email with a link to return to it.
3. Pre-membership meeting
After review, the Coalition will invite your team to talk through any open questions and how Coalition membership could support your work.
Application
Please schedule your pre-application meeting before completing the application
What We Look For
The Coalition is particularly interested in educational experiences that contribute to students’ long-term flourishing, including through the development of identity, purpose, belonging, agency, character, meaningful relationships, and other capacities that help students thrive in work and life.
Successful applications will demonstrate:
- Alignment with the LearningWell Coalition’s mission, values, and goals, with a clear focus on supporting student flourishing
- A focus on long-term wellbeing with an understanding of how the experiences students have during college can contribute to their flourishing in work and life beyond graduation
- Meaningful faculty involvement and institutional integration; Initiatives should include meaningful engagement of faculty and/or faculty-student relationships, while also demonstrating how the work is becoming embedded within the institution’s culture, structures, and practices in ways that can be sustained through changes in leadership or staffing
- The potential to reach a broad population of students; LearningWell is particularly interested in approaches that can scale to serve a significant portion of the undergraduate student population, rather than initiatives designed exclusively for a small or selected group of students.
- A thoughtful approach to assessment, including a plan to evaluate outcomes related to student wellbeing and flourishing
- Meaningful support from senior leadership, demonstrating that the initiative is connected to broader institutional priorities and has the commitment necessary to develop and grow over time
What You’ll Need for Your Application
Word limits are maximums, not targets. Concise responses and bullet points are welcome. If questions overlap, refer back to an earlier answer, and make clear what is in place today versus what you plan to develop.
1. Initiative Description (500 words): What it is, when it began and its current stage, who participates, the primary activities, and who leads it.
2. Institutional Context and Commitment (300 words): How the initiative fits your institution’s priorities for the undergraduate experience, and the evidence of commitment (leadership involvement, resources, structures, partnerships).
3. Alignment with the Coalition Framework (300 words): How the initiative is intended to influence identity, purpose, belonging, agency, character, relationships, or other capacities for lifelong flourishing.
4. Faculty Engagement (300 words): The role faculty play in design, leadership, delivery, or evaluation, and how faculty-student interaction advances your goals.
5. Student Experience (300 words): One or two concrete examples of what a student actually experiences.
6. Intended Student Outcomes (300 words): Two to four primary outcomes the initiative aims to influence.
7. Assessment (500 words): Your measures or methods, when data are collected, and how findings inform improvement. Describe any longer-term or post-graduation approach separately.
8. Scale and Reach (300 words): The share of undergraduates currently reached and your three-to-five-year goals. If the initiative serves a specific population, explain why.
9. Sustainability and Institutionalization (300 words): How the work is being built into courses, advising, or other systems so it endures.
10. Contributing to the Coalition (300 words): Expertise, practices, tools, or lessons you could share, and what could be adapted elsewhere.
11. Learning from the Coalition (300 words): Two or three questions or challenges where peer institutions could advance your work.
12. Coalition Team: One or two primary contacts plus other participants.
12. Leadership Endorsement: A signed letter from your president or provost describing how the work fits institutional aspirations for student flourishing and affirming support for Coalition participation. We also encourage you to make your president aware of the Coalition’s optional annual Presidents’ Convening.
If applicable:
13: Artificial Intelligence (350 words): If your initiative uses AI, describe how you protect student privacy and data, assess impacts on wellbeing, and preserve meaningful student-faculty and peer relationships.
