Co-published with and Students need more than just academic skills for success in college and career, and the lack of an explicit instructional focus on the "soft skills" critical to postsecondary success poses a challenge for many students who enter college, especially the underprepared.

Based on a multi-campus, cross-disciplinary collaboration, this book presents a set of habits-of-mind-based strategies that demonstrably help not only low-income, ESL, and first-generation college students overcome obstacles on the path to degree completion, but all students. They promote life-long, integrative learning and foster intellectual qualities such as curiosity, openness, flexibility, engagement, and persistence.