Who We Are

Reimagining undergraduate education to increase student success while decreasing student costs

Welcome! The College-in-3 Exchange is a collective of campuses hosting conversations to design undergraduate degree options that increase student success while decreasing student costs. This idea has moved from an experiment of a few campuses to an organized movement, serving as a catalyst for reimagining undergraduate education using evidence-based practice to inform a variety of designs that are not only shorter and less expensive, but better.

The College-in-3 experiment is now launching a national higher education innovation incubator – the College-in-3 Exchange – building on the work of the early pilots to bring a variety of new designs to scale.

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Exchange Members

Adrian College

California State University Dominguez Hills

Eastern Illinois University

Loma Linda University

Lasell University

Merrimack College

Northern Illinois University

Southern Utah University

The Chicago School

The College of New Jersey

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Weber State University

Youngstown State University

and more…

Leadership

Lori J. Carrell

Chancellor of the
University of Minnesota Rochester

Lori J. Carrell

Lori Carrell, chancellor of the University of Minnesota Rochester, focuses on transformative communication, learning innovation and well-being in higher education communities. Co-author, Communicate for a Change: Revitalizing Conversations for Higher Education.

Robert Zemsky (Bob)

Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania

Robert Zemsky

Bob Zemsky, long-time professor at Penn, has forcefully argued that colleges and universities need to be transformed from within. Co-author, Communicate for a Change: Revitalizing Conversations for Higher Education.

Madeleine Green

Independent Consultant and former Vice President at the American Council on Education

Madeleine Green

Madeleine Green, independent consultant and former Vice President at the American Council on Education. She has translated her experiences working with varied institutions on leadership development, change management and international education into many books and articles, including co-authoring “On Change” a series
of monographs.

Debbie Beauchene

Project Coordinator for College-in-3 and Former Educator

Debbie Beauchene

Debbie Beauchene, project coordinator for College-in-3 and former educator. A passionate advocate for transforming volunteer and community engagement.

Our Convener/Cluster Strategy

The College-in-3 Exchange is a national endeavor, organized with a Convener and Cluster strategy. Conveners may be a lead campus, an accreditor serving a region, or a national higher education organization. Cluster Participants will have access to the community of early pilots and other participants in their Cluster as well as the thought-leadership and consultation of the national Exchange leaders. Cluster Participants can connect to these communities virtually through ongoing conversations; further, Cluster Participants are invited to meet in person during future annual convenings. This process will support design, internal and external permission, launch, and assessment of student outcomes.