On-going Curriculum Support
Launching a curricular approach is hard work. Sustaining and evolving it is a different kind of hard. This support is designed for campuses that have completed the launch work and want to maintain momentum, receive thoughtful guidance, and connect with peers navigating the same terrain.
This ongoing support is exclusively available to campuses that Keith has worked with directly to launch their curriculum. It includes monthly campus-specific video calls and monthly group video calls with peer institutions.
The campus calls have been invaluable as we implement a divisional curricular approach. They have kept our work moving forward with steady momentum, provided thoughtful guidance in navigating unique challenges, and offered practical examples of how peer institutions have approached similar opportunities. Keith has also been instrumental in helping us think through training and communication strategies that built understanding and buy-in from our internal teams and external campus partners.
Associate Provost for Student Success, CSB+SJU
"We have greatly benefited from working with Keith as we implement our curricular approach across the Student Success division. His monthly cohort calls provide ongoing professional learning and valuable opportunities to learn from peer institutions. Equally valuable are the monthly individual meetings, which allow for focused guidance, problem solving, and support for additional team members. This approach has built a strong learning community that has accelerated our progress and strengthened our outcomes."
Benefits of the Campus Coaching
- Technical assistance
- Helpful guidance and objective input on strategies and processes
- Structured accountability and sustained momentum
- Tips and strategies for moving forward from the micro to the macro
- Affirming progress and innovative work
- Access to approaches and tools from many different campuses
Benefits of the Group Coaching
- Idea sharing and generation
- Normalizing shared challenges
- Building relationships, connections, and networking
- Getting back on track quickly rather than after going down the wrong path
- Keith’s experience working with more than 100 different campuses and their curricular approach
Assistant Vice President and Assistant Dean of Students, University of Oklahoma
Ongoing support with Keith Edwards has strengthened our advancement as a Division of Student Affairs, while connecting us with peers who share a curricular approach to the work. Beyond the insight gained through one-on-one campus calls, the monthly community spaces have created opportunities for meaningful exchange, helping us identify strong thinking partners and deepen our practice together.
Topics Discussed
- Educational plan development by functional area
- Marketing, branding, and communicating
- Helping the outcomes choose the strategies
- Developmental sequencing
- Selection and training processes
- Integrating operations: & administration
- Assessment strategies & plans
- Staff meetings, staffing, organizational structure
- Process management/Air traffic control
- Integrating crisis management/students of concern
- Connecting campus partnerships
UMass Amherst
"Having Keith's expertise and support every month, along with a cohort of other schools available for regular consultation and resource sharing, has been invaluable. Our training, our curriculum, and my confidence in leading this work have all improved as a result of this relationship."
Benefits for Campuses
- Developing a learning organization
- Not letting your curriculum get in the way of your curricular approach
- Considering broadening to a divisional approach
- Coaching around navigating the political landscape for buy-in and support
- Comprehensive assessment
- Annual reviews – internal and external
- Revision, renewal, and restart processes
- Mapping and gap analysis
Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Engagement, Concordia College
"Being part of Keith's cohort for the last few years has been incredibly impactful. The monthly calls keep our curricular approach top of mind and allow me to bring insights from colleagues at other institutions back to our campus. When someone gets stuck, or has an interesting idea, Keith is great at providing a thoughtful perspective -- our teams are always eager to have their time with Keith."
Tips for Campus Coaching Calls
The campus calls are a chance for each campus to determine the topic and the participants that would be most helpful in advancing their curriculum. These are the suggestions for campuses that past participants had based on their experiences.
- Schedule out the topics/focus and participants a semester at a time
- More planning and accountability makes this more helpful
- Invite different people to different calls based on topic/agenda
- Key to have the point person on each call but rotate the participants based on the focus
- Topics might include: strategy level discussions about the next steps, meeting with an office that is further ahead than others, meeting with an office that is stuck and needs help getting unstuck, strategizing with the assessment (or other) committee, discussing ways to integrate into recruitment and selection, etc.
Group Coaching Calls
The group calls have a predetermined topic and are a chance to connect with others doing a curricular approach and crowdsource innovative solutions, strategies, and approaches. The group calls occur once a month with a predetermined topic from those generated by the participating schools. These calls are recorded and available to share with your teams. These were the topics the campuses that participated in 2025-26 identified for the focus of their group calls.
- Connecting & Getting Started
- AMA/Emergence
- Opening, Training, Orientation, Move-In
- ICA Reflections
- Selection
- AMA/Emergence
- Assessment
- Strategies
- Ed Plans
- Onboarding
- Maintaining Momentum
- Sequencing
Value
The cost for this year of support is $4,000 for individualized, campus-specific, and collective support for your curricular approach. Each of the past 7 years, we have had about 15 campuses participate as a cohort. You can read some of their testimonials on this page.
Senior Director of Student Housing, Trent University
"Coaching calls with Keith have been incredibly helpful, providing clarity, guidance, and momentum when we need it most. Our team has been able to work through challenges, gain a clearer understanding of how we create environments for learning, and feel confident that we are moving in the right direction."
Credentials
Keith has been one of the leaders in developing curricular approaches to learning beyond the classroom in higher education. He has facilitated or co-facilitated retreats with more than 100 campuses to develop their curricular approach.
He is co-author of this book on the curricular approach.
He regularly serves as a faculty member for ACPA’s Institute on the Curricular Approach (formerly Residential Curriculum Institute). He chaired the Institute in 2009 and co-chaired in 2018 & 2019.
He is the co-author of this article on designing, implementing, and assessing curricular approaches.
Dr. Deanne DeCrescenzo
Assistant Vice President of Student Advocacy and Engagement