Membership Application

The LearningWell Coalition is particularly interested in educational experiences that contribute to students' long-term flourishing, including through the development of students’ sense 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.

Initiative Description
Describe the initiative you are putting forward as the basis for LearningWell Coalition membership. What is the initiative, who participates, and what does it look like in practice?

Please include:

• When the initiative began and its current stage of development
• Who currently participates
• A description of the primary activities or experiences involved
• Who leads and delivers the work

Institutional Context and Commitment
How does the initiative described in this application fit within your institution’s broader priorities for the undergraduate student experience? Describe the institutional priorities or goals that have shaped this work and the evidence of institutional commitment to it, such as senior leadership involvement, dedicated resources, organizational structures, and/or cross-campus partnerships.

Alignment with the LearningWell Coalition Framework
How does this initiative contribute to students’ long-term wellbeing and flourishing? Describe the mechanisms through which the experiences or practices included in the initiative are intended to influence dimensions such as identity, purpose, belonging, agency, character, meaningful relationships, or other capacities that help students flourish in work and life.

Faculty Engagement
How does the initiative create opportunities for meaningful engagement between faculty and students? Describe how faculty-student interactions contribute to the initiative’s goals for student flourishing and wellbeing. 

Describe the role faculty currently play in the design, leadership, delivery, or evaluation of the initiative. If greater faculty or curricular integration is a future goal rather than a current feature, please describe what exists today and what you plan to develop.

Student Experience
Give one or two concrete examples of what a student actually experiences as a result of this initiative.

Intended Student Outcomes
Identify two to four primary student outcomes the initiative is intended to influence. These might include purpose, identity, belonging, agency, character, relationships, resilience, or other dimensions of lifelong wellbeing and flourishing.

Assessment
How are you assessing, or how do you plan to assess, the initiative’s impact on the student outcomes identified above? Please describe the measures or methods being used or developed, when data are collected, and how findings are or will be used to refine the initiative. If you plan to examine longer-term or post-graduation outcomes, please describe that approach separately.

Scale and Reach
What proportion of the undergraduate student population currently participates in or is affected by this initiative? What are the institution’s goals for expanding its reach over the next three to five years? If the initiative is not intended to reach all undergraduate students, describe the population it is intended to serve and the rationale for that scope.

Sustainability and Institutionalization
How is the institution working to embed this initiative into its broader culture, structures, and practices over time? Describe the structures, resources, partnerships, policies, or other institutional commitments that will support the initiative’s long-term sustainability and help maintain momentum through changes in leadership or staffing (For example, the initiative is built into existing courses, advising, or other student systems). 

Contributing to the Coalition and Transferability
What expertise, experiences, practices, tools, research, or lessons could your institution share with other LearningWell Coalition members?

Describe which aspects of your work could be adapted or applied in other institutional or educational contexts.

Learning from the Coalition
What does your institution hope to learn or develop through participation in the LearningWell Coalition? Please identify two or three specific questions, challenges, or areas where engagement with peer institutions would advance your work.

Coalition Team
Who will lead your institution's engagement with the LearningWell Coalition? Identify one to two primary contacts and additional faculty, administrators, staff, or leaders that will participate.

Conditional Question: Artificial Intelligence, if applicable
If your initiative incorporates artificial intelligence, please describe how AI is being used and how you are addressing its potential impact on students. In your response, please address, as applicable:

How student privacy and data are protected;
How you will assess the impact of AI-enabled elements on student wellbeing, including both intended benefits and potential unintended harms; and
How the initiative preserves and supports meaningful relationships between students and faculty and among students and their peers.

Leadership Endorsement
(Required for institutional membership)
Please provide a signed letter of endorsement from your institution's president or provost. The letter should describe how the proposed work fits within the institution's broader aspirations for student flourishing and whole-person development and affirm institutional support for participation in the LearningWell Coalition.

The Coalition also hosts an annual Presidents' Convening, bringing together higher education leaders to explore opportunities and challenges related to student flourishing. While participation is optional, the Convening offers a valuable opportunity for presidents to connect with peers, exchange ideas, and engage in conversations about advancing student wellbeing and flourishing across higher education. We encourage applicants to make their presidents aware of this opportunity

Additional Supporting Materials (Optional)
Please upload any additional documents or appendices that may help the Coalition better understand your initiative here.