Client Stories

Proven strategies, real impact

Nine institutions. One approach to how students actually work.

Each story below follows the same arc: a stubborn problem, a metacognitive strategy installed into instruction and support, and the results that followed. Start with the institution most like yours.

From a STEM-only polytechnic to an athletics program to a century-old technical college, the common thread is teaching students to manage their minds, not just their time.

Client stories

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Denison University
Granville, OH · Private liberal arts university
Hired to build a mentorship program; built a Peer Learning Strategist model that made the hidden work of learning visible and outlasted a pandemic. Featured in The Learning Assistance Review, Fall 2026.
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Florida Polytechnic University
Lakeland, FL · Public STEM university
Turning a failing first-year gateway course into the engine of record enrollment.
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Dunwoody College of Technology
Minneapolis, MN · Technical college
Making the learning beneath expert technical performance visible, transferable, and measurable.
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University of the Cumberlands
Williamsburg, KY · Private university
A required accreditation plan, Think for Tomorrow, that lifted student-athlete GPAs from 2.1 to 3.1 and laid the groundwork for a decade of growth.
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Samford University
Birmingham, AL · Private university
A Quality Enhancement Plan built on Powerful Assignments, commended by SACSCOC as a model with national potential.
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UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA · Public research university
Metacognitive learning support at research-university scale.
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LSU Shreveport
Shreveport, LA · Public university
Installing the infrastructure of academic work into instruction and support.
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Clemson University
Clemson, SC · Public research university
Faculty and learning-center collaboration on how students engage with academic tasks.
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Lenoir-Rhyne University
Hickory, NC · Private university
A study hall built on how athletes already think lifted the athletics GPA above 3.0 and ended a faculty-coach feud; orientation attendance went from 60% to 98%.
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What these stories share

Most student-success efforts target time management or surface behavior. This work goes underneath, to the mental labor deep learning requires: the infrastructure of academic work.

Installed, not added onStrategies live inside classroom instruction and learning support, so they reach every student rather than the ones who seek help.
Driven by Trench Data™Each engagement collects data on how students actually study, which guides what faculty and support staff change next.
Measured where it mattersFirst-year success, retention, graduation, performance gaps, and enrollment are the yardsticks in every story.

Leonard Geddes has studied how students think, struggle, and succeed across disciplines for more than two decades. He is a SACSCOC approved evaluator, a columnist for The Learning Assistance Review, and the author of How to Successfully Transition Students into College: From Traps to Triumph.

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