Cluster Goals Achieved
•  Yearlong learning communities
    facilitate freshman transition to UCLA.
•  Course work helps to elevate academic
    skills needed for success at UCLA.
•  Students use an interdisciplinary
   approach to master complex issues.
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In developing the cluster program, we had three major goals.

Data from surveys of freshmen in cluster classes, as well as surveys of seniors who have been asked to reflect back on their cluster experiences, suggest that our goals are being achieved.

From these assessments we have learned that clusters facilitate an effective transition, advance the improvement of basic academic skills (particularly writing and critical thinking), and encourage students to approach major issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.