Scholarship to Practice Interview With Professor Angela Duckworth, Co-director, Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative

Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, speaks with Angela Duckworth, Co-director, Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, on the Innovating Together Podcast. Professor Duckworth talks about the threshold for institutions joining the program, how it supports first-year and transfer students, pitching it to administrators, and using the resulting data. Topics include:

• Which institutions are the best fit for BCGI’s grit-based program
• How the program’s one-size-fits-all approach makes it more effective as a study
• Ease of implementation at the administrative level
• Bottom-line assessment about the value of the data collected