How can a degree program, general education program, or other course of study make substantial, widely appreciated improvements in who learns, what they learn, and how well they learn it? Under the right circumstances, such improvements are possible. What follows are suggestions, some counter-intuitive, that increase the chances of their being successful and sustained.

• Don't implement a change strategy by delegating each part of it to a different stakeholder—this recommendation for faculty, that one for the information technology unit, a third for administrators, a fourth for the assessment staff. Instead, work with a team composed of people from all those groups and more.
• Simultaneously upgrade content, deepen learning, and improve the program's ability to attract and retain a variety of students.
• But in doing so, take your time.
• Use technology as a lever for change, but slow down. Don't leap from one hot technology to the next.
• Find ways for faculty and students to save time.

Before elaborating on these suggestions, I'll explain why they allude to time so frequently.