An urban, public, university located in eastern Virginia, Norfolk State University (NFU) is the home to two “models of success.” One is the Summer Bridge Program that helps academically challenged students to make the transition from high school to college. Held during a four week summer session, this nonresidential program addresses the academic, developmental, and social integration needs of students through courses in such fields as English and mathematics as well as through co-curricular programming and intrusive developmental advising. The other model of success is the Faculty Communities of Inquiry (COI) Program in which faculty and staff engage in a year-long interdisciplinary adventure in which they share pedagogical ideas for enhancing student learning and development at both the undergraduate and master’s level in such domains as “critical thinking assessment,” “service-learning,” and “scientific reasoning.”