• Methodology
• Team
• Interviews and Conversations
• Collaborators

About the Lab

The Lab launched in 2009 with an initial effort to map the current experience of college students and to identify opportunities for significantly enhancing the student experience. Learn more about this important phase of work.

• Methodology

  Designers in the Lab use observational and ethnographic research, self-reporting, and interviewing to characterize the experience of current, former and prospective students at various ages and from diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds.

• Team

  Members of the Lab team come from diverse backgrounds and represent a spectrum of design, research and communication skills. The team leverages their unique skill sets to bring a fresh, multi-disciplinary perspective to their work.

• Interviews and Conversations

  The Lab team share stories from the first phase of activity. In this series of short videos, learn about the origins of the project, the methodologies and approaches employed on a day-to-day basis and the lessons learned.

• Collaborators

  In addition to the core team and satellite researchers around the country, the Lab team garners input and support from a Project Advisory Committee, education experts and advocates from all sides of the debate and students from over 30 schools.