Why Study These Six Particular Institutions?

I heard a talk by Tim Renick of Georgia State that summarized how the University is currently improving quality, access, and affordability plus high points of the history of developing the capacity to make such 3fold gains (my phrase, not his). I’d been looking for an institution already improving quality, access, and affordability simultaneously. Here was the first case. I considered around thirty institutions, looking for other institutions that at least had a strategy for inclusive excellence (high quality learning for many kinds of students, including those from underserved groups. After I saw a few examples, I began narrowing the sample to institutions that were (probably) making 3fold gains in unique ways. In the end, I think any institution in this sample could profit by implementing a few distinctive features of the other five.