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Dr Karen Stout is an American educationalist who leads Achieving the Dream (ATD), a national network of more than 300 tertiary community colleges in the United States.
She is visiting New Zealand to share her experience of how tertiary education organisations (TEOs) can redesign themselves around the needs of learners.
She says the network has proved that innovative, evidence-based community college programmes, and interventions can produce and sustain improved student success.
The Tertiary Education Commission, which is supporting Dr Stout's visit, has conceded the tertiary system is not working for many, including Maori, Pasifika, disabled and working students.
So, what can tertiary institutions here, learn from Achieve the Dream?
