Landmark College offers a master class in designing and delivering an exceptional student experience. The college deeply understands its students and goes to great lengths to create a collegiate experience in which they can thrive. Here’s an example: Landmark unofficially boasts a 27:1 student-to-therapy dog ratio.
If you’re not familiar with Landmark, it’s a small Vermont institution designed exclusively for neurodivergent students. The students we’ve talked to there consistently reinforce the same lesson: when the college experience is designed around how students actually learn and engage, it can fundamentally change their ability to succeed.
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Full disclosure: Landmark is an Intead client. But our perspective is grounded in the work we see them do every day. So, are we biased? Yes. Do we confidently stand by our views? Also, yes.
A recent Chronicle of Higher Education piece backs us up by featuring institutions turning to Landmark for guidance on creating classroom experiences that work better for their students. Landmark trains hundreds of educators each year through its on-campus research institute LCIRT and partners with an increasing number of schools to help them improve. Another proof point: the steady stream of educators at Landmark’s booth at the recent AHEAD conference in Providence, Rhode Island. Clearly, educators aren’t just admiring what Landmark does. They want to know how to do it themselves.
Landmark has spent decades working to deeply understand its students and design an experience around what it is their students actually need, rather than simply asking students to adapt to the institution.
That distinction matters far beyond the practice of educating neurodivergent students.
When an institution understands its students well enough to remove friction and create the right conditions for them to thrive, student experience becomes more than a promise in a recruitment campaign. It feeds the reasons they choose the institution, and the reasons they stay.
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