Knack

JULY 1, 2025

Since 2021, the University of New Hampshire has partnered with Knack to offer scalable, peer-led academic support to its undergraduate students. For UNH, this growth hasn’t come at the expense of its on-campus academic support services. What began as a pilot initiative has evolved into a full-scale, campus-wide strategy.

Tutoring

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In today’s higher education landscape, creating a successful student experience means seeing the whole student—not just their academic performance. Insights help teams create tailored support plans, but many institutions find it difficult to access quality data. So, how can schools access clean, usable data?

Advising

Knack

JULY 9, 2025

As Senior Program Manager and Knack Program Administrator (KPA), Chyna plays a vital role in ensuring that every student has access to meaningful, flexible academic support. From scaling tutoring operations to integrating new support models, she leads with purpose, strategy, and care.

Tutoring

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Higher education has long been heralded as a path to personal and professional growth. Yet, for many underrepresented college students, navigating academic life can feel akin to scaling an invisible mountain. Unclear systems: Overlapping or confusing systems for accessing resources can deter already overwhelmed students.

Mental health

Knack

JULY 23, 2025

During a recent webinar co-hosted by Knack and EAB, Dawna Perez from UNH shared how they’ve built a unified student support ecosystem by combining peer tutoring through Knack with early alerts and case management via Navigate360. The result?

Retention

Civitas Learning

MAY 27, 2025

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript As higher education faces intensifying pressurefrom financial strain to public skepticismbold leadership is more vital than ever. But with pressure comes possibility. In this episode of Next Practices , were joined by Dr. Nicholas S. The message?

Financial aid

Knack

JUNE 24, 2025

More than half of college students—an estimated 53%—have never accessed any form of academic support on their campus. Learning centers remain a vital hub for academic support, yet their capacity is often shaped by hours, staffing, or space.

Academic support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

In a timely publication released Thursday, education experts outline concrete strategies to support Black student success in college amid growing national pressures on diversity initiatives and following the 2023 Supreme Court decision limiting race-conscious admissions.

Higher education

Knack

JANUARY 24, 2025

As colleges and universities strive to enhance student success, one key strategy is increasing access to academic support services. However, even the most effective resources can go underutilized if they aren't convenient or accessible for students.

Tutoring

Knack

APRIL 17, 2025

Ten years ago, Knack was founded with a bold vision: to make academic support equitable and accessible for all students.

Academic support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

Student Success - Sessions address retention strategies, academic support systems, and innovative approaches to ensuring students graduate prepared for 21st-century careers. Systems Change - Strategic sessions examine how HBCUs can work collectively to influence policy and create systemic improvements in higher education.

Literacy

Knack

MARCH 6, 2025

Higher education was built for a different time. Many juggle jobs, family responsibilities, and commutes that make accessing support services difficult. If colleges and universities want to help every student succeed, they need to rethink how academic support is delivered.

Student success

Knack

MAY 28, 2025

The Knack Partner Awards celebrate campuses that go above and beyond to expand access, scale impact, and empower students through peer tutoring. In this multi-part series, weve been highlighting institutions that are reimagining academic support in powerful ways.

Tutoring

College Planners of America

JUNE 11, 2025

During the 1980-1981 academic year, public and private colleges spent $20.7 billion in total on instruction and $13 billion on academic support, student services, and college support services combined, according to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics.

Administration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

The setback represents a significant hurdle for proponents of enhanced support for Black students in California higher education, coming just months after the state made history by becoming the first in the nation to establish a Black-Serving Institution designation through Senate Bill 1348, signed into law by Governor Newsom in September 2024.

Grant

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

Hamm Supporters of TRIO assembled on Capitol Hill in March during COE’s annual Legislative Conference. The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. EOC programs report that 60.6%

First generation

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Despite decades of proven success in expanding college access and economic mobility for low-income and first-generation students, the federal TRIO programs now face elimination in the President’s budget—prompting over 10,000 alumni to urge Congress to protect this vital engine of opportunity.

First generation

Knack

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) has long been committed to fostering student success through innovative academic support initiatives.

Tutoring

COE

JULY 10, 2025

This year’s honorees include: Beverly Black’ s early experience with TRIO Talent Search at Southern University of New Orleans and Student Support Services at the University of L ouisiana at Lafayette instilled in her the confidence and tools to pursue higher education.

Education

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 10, 2025

Attending college full-time, participating in campus activities, and consistently using academic support services improves students likelihood of degree completion. Unlike datasets that only include information on students income level, NPSAS examines how students pay for college. No other sources are as robust in this regard.

First generation

Knack

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Knack, were proud to partner with institutions committed to expanding academic support for their students, and Valdosta State University (VSU) is a shining example. Since launching our partnership in Fall 2024, VSU has made tutoring more accessible than eversupporting all students in all courses.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new study examines potential effects of artificial intelligence on current challenges faced in higher education and notes that few are ready. The survey was conducted by Cengage Group and Bay View Analytics to better understand attitudes and concerns of higher education instructors and leadership.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

And while I am always trying to find ways to support community college students, I believe this work can be applied to all higher education institutions. Institutions of higher education budgets should be value statements and represent the needs of our students.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. Academic Advancement Program AAP is rooted in the purpose of public education, notes Alexander.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Over the last four decades, Latino and African-American students were among the fastest-growing demographics in higher education. The university was founded to close an educational access gap in a major American city not served by a public university. During the same 40-year period, Black enrollment doubled.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In an effort to address the needs of Black and Latinx men in higher education, male resource centers have been looking to increase belonging, persistence, and graduation rates. Carey Seventy percent of Black men in California pursuing higher education attend a community college, but degree attainment lags. Dr. Roderick L.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The detrimental ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education won’t be going away any time soon, and student mental health is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, according to a recent EAB report. Lower K-12 test scores extend back to elementary school and foretell heightened demand on academic support staff.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Jeff Strohl, director of CEW and lead author of “ Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade of Demographic Change at Selective and Open-Access Institutions Prior to the End of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action.”

Accessibility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The research, published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education , focused on participants in the first such program, the Kalamazoo Promise. Reducing the financial barriers to access doesn’t necessarily reduce the financial barriers to success,” said Dr. W.

Adult education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The first, the Educational Preparedness Program (EPP) , offers courses, academic support, and career-building resources to currently and formerly incarcerated (CFI) students. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

To help them, colleges are going beyond academic support. When campuses make these changes to the physical space, it makes things more accessible for all,” she said. These factors make it harder for first-gen students to function in institutions that were developed for elite whites.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education. In addition to focusing on associate degree earners, they have an explicitly stated emphasis on diversity and equity,” said Harrison.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education. The 37 students are part of the new state-funded California Medicine Scholars Program (CMSP), which seeks to diversify the field of primary care and address health workforce shortages.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About seven years ago, Columbia University welcomed its first HBCU Fellowship cohort, allowing students who had graduated from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to pursue select master’s degrees in the university’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), all the while getting financial, career, and academic support.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Organizations rooted in sports incorporate educational curriculum that helps participants be better prepared for higher education. It also seeks to improve access to quality education for kids in under-resourced communities. Armory College Prep is supposed to open a world view that they don’t have access to.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. We’re really proud of that program,” says Morishita, whose first job in higher education was as a counselor in the EOP at San Francisco State University.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is year 19 for Examples of Excelencia, an annual recognition given by Excelencia in Education. Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. Founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A.

Tutoring