Cost & Fees

^*: Optional two-year extended payment plan available. Add 5.5% surcharge to base fee.

For further information on costs and/or payment options contact John Gardner at gardner@jngi.org / 800-385-8399 x103 or Drew Koch at koch@jngi.org / 800-385-8399 x108.

What Participants Receive

Information and Fees

Information and Fees for New and Returning Institutions Conducting the Foundations of Excellence® in the First College Year Self-Study, the Foundations of Excellence® Transfer Self-Study, and/or the Foundations of Excellence® Refresh Self-Study

Participating institutions receive:

• Intensive advisory support provided by Gardner Institute team
  • Senior staff advisor assigned to each institution
  • Frequent written and oral feedback
  • Periodic web seminars
  • Click here to learn more about what participants in the First-Year Focus receive.
  • Click here to learn more about what participants in the Transfer Focus receive.
  • Click here to learn more about what participants in Refresh receive:
• Use of intellectual property
  • Foundational Dimensions® , Performance Indicators, Current Practices Inventory, and Action Plan template
• Access to FoEtec® web-based self-study technology platform for two years
• Foundations of Excellence New Student Survey(optional for Former FoE Institutions)
  • Includes analytic tools for customized campus analysis
  • Benchmarking with peer institutions
• Foundations of Excellence Faculty/Staff Survey(optional for Former FoE Institutions)
  • Includes analytic tools for customized campus analysis
  • Benchmarking with peer institutions
• Registrations for the Foundations of Excellence® Launch Meeting for three persons (attendance is required for new FoE Institutional Participants)
• Registration for the Foundations of Excellence® Summit Meeting for two persons
  (attendance is required for new and former FoE Institutional Participants)
• National publicity

Important information for New Institutional Participants

• Although there is no additional registration charge for the FoE Launch Meeting (for up to 3 institutional representatives) or Summit Meeting (for up to 2 institutional representatives) institutions are responsible for travel expenses and hotel accommodations; most meals will be provided by the Institute. The Summit date is June 14-15, 2012.
• If an institution chooses to participate in the optional Winter Meeting, there will be a modest cost recovery registration fee TBA plus travel and accommodation costs for each institutional representative. The 2013 Winter Meeting will be on February 22, in Orlando, FL.

Important information for former institutions participating in a second self-study process:

• Although use of surveys is highly encouraged, it is not required, which provides further cost reduction and flexibility;
• Your institution’s familiarity with FoE will enable you to get your study up and running more expeditiously. You would also be able to immediately build on your prior work in the first self-study.

Information and Fees for FoE Implement

Participating institutions receive:

• Gardner Institute support for implementing a recently completed FoE action plan
• Ongoing formal access to the Gardner Institute staff’s internationally recognized student success and strategic planning expertise
• Formal continuation with a Gardner Institute FoE senior staff advisor including:
• Quarterly conference calls
• Quarterly reports with subsequent written feedback
• Unlimited ad hoc e-mail support
• Optional on campus site visit (extra fee required)

For further information on costs and/or payment options contact John N. Gardner at gardner@jngi.org / 800-385-8399 x103 or Drew Koch at koch@jngi.org / 800-385-8399 x108.

Discounts

Discounts for Foundations of Excellence® First-Year, Transfer, and/or Refresh

• Returning for a second self study and applying for FoE Refresh. See note 3 above.
• Multiple campuses from the same university system participating in the same year.
• Multiple campuses from the same community college district participating in the same year.

The John N. Gardner Institute is a non-profit higher education center and is entirely dependent on support it receives from fee-paying institutional participants.

For further information on costs and/or payment options contact John N. Gardner at gardner@jngi.org / 800-385-8399 x103 or Drew Koch at koch@jngi.org / 765-838-8025.

Definitions

Definitions Applied to the Cost Overview

New Foundations of Excellence® (FoE) Institutions are defined as colleges or universities that have never participated in a FoE process before.

Returning FoE Institutions are defined as colleges or universities that have participated in a FoE process one or more years ago and are signing up for a new self-study process. This includes:

• Institutions that conducted a first-year study in the past and now wish to conduct a transfer study;
• Institutions that conducted a transfer study in the past and now want to conduct a first-year study;
• Institutions that want to repeat (refresh) a first-year study several years after completing an initial FoE first-year plan; and,
• Institutions that want to repeat (refresh) a transfer study several years after completing an initial FoE transfer plan.

For further information on costs and/or payment options contact John N. Gardner at gardner@jngi.org / 800-385-8399 x103 or Drew Koch at koch@jngi.org / 765-838-8025.