Knack

AUGUST 1, 2025

At the College of Charleston, student success isn’t just a priority. And starting Fall 2025, that commitment will take an exciting new form: a dynamic partnership with Knack that brings free, flexible peer tutoring to students in science, math, computer science, and business courses. It’s a community-wide commitment.

Student success

Knack

MAY 14, 2025

Sustaining Student Support Amid Shifting Budgets Across the country, colleges and universities are grappling with a difficult truth: even as the need for student support intensifies, the financial resources available to provide it are shrinking.

Academic support

Knack

JULY 23, 2025

At the University of New Hampshire (UNH), student success isn’t left to chance. 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

Knack

JULY 9, 2025

At Missouri S&T, the heartbeat of the Student Success Center is Chyna Howell. 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.

Tutoring

Knack

JULY 31, 2025

Most students graduate with academic knowledge, but many still struggle to explain the real-world skills they’ve developed along the way. The disconnect isn’t that students haven’t gained these skills. Communication. Problem-solving. Leadership. Employers consistently rank these competencies as critical, yet underdeveloped.

Academic support

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) has established a framework where senior leadership and all academic support units understand how their roles contribute to student success. Transforming raw data into high-quality insights is a game changer for making decisions that affect student success.

Advising

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

When we talk about student success, it’s easy to focus on the classroom. But even the most capable students can struggle if they don’t have access to basic resources like quiet study spaces, reliable Wi-Fi, group meeting areas, and academic support services.

Success

School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Mentorship and Support Programs: Academic Support: Provide academic support services, such as tutoring and counseling, to ensure the success of financial aid recipients. Personalized Support: When families feel valued and understood, they are more likely to trust the school’s financial aid decisions.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2025

She previously served as the Associate Dean of Student Support Services and Director of Student Success and Support Services at Long Beach City College.

Student affairs

Knack

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Higher education thrives on connection—between students and faculty, among peers, and within the broader campus community. As institutions seek innovative ways to elevate student success, one of the most promising strategies is leveraging peer interaction as a cornerstone of academic support.

Tutoring

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. Today, UNH students have logged over 19,000 tutoring hours through Knack, demonstrating not just demand, but sustained engagement across courses and student demographics.

Tutoring

Knack

MARCH 20, 2025

His work has shaped how we think about student success, and his influence continues to push the field forward. At the Association for the Coaching & Tutoring Profession (ACTP) conference in Orlando, I had the absolute privilege of catching up with Dr. John Gardnerone of the biggest inspirations for many of us in higher education.

Academic support

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

Civitas Learning

MAY 27, 2025

More than a philanthropic win, Opportunity Vanderbilt forced the institution to reevaluate its alignmentensuring that student services, academic support, and financial investments worked in sync to set students up for success both in and beyond college. You can’t just ask, Are our students graduating?

Financial aid

Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

In response, they implemented several targeted strategies: Weekly instructor check-ins to align on content and assignments APA and writing workshops for students enrolled in ENGL 1301 Academic support referrals to help students build foundational skills These efforts led to a notable result: persistence rose from 59% to 70% in a single term.

Scheduling

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We’re excited to announce Knack’s new partnership with Union County, New Jersey, to offer free tutoring to middle school students (grades 5-8), with support from dedicated tutors from local colleges and universities.

Tutoring

Knack

MARCH 6, 2025

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

AUGUST 7, 2025

Higher education is facing mounting challenges that demand scalable, student-centered solutions.

Tutoring

Knack

AUGUST 6, 2025

Across the country, K–12 schools are searching for new ways to help students recover academically and thrive. But there’s a promising solution hiding in plain sight: local college 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

Knack

JULY 3, 2025

Nearly one in four first-year students doesn’t return for their second year of college. That’s the sobering takeaway from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s latest report on student persistence.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

ATLANTA — The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) launched its premier UNITE 2025 conference in this week, drawing over 1,300 attendees from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide for a transformative four-day gathering focused on advancing institutional excellence and student success.

Literacy

Knack

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

At Jacksonville University (JU), student success is always top of mind. Like many institutions, JU understands that fostering meaningful academic support and engagement is key to helping students persist and thrive.

Tutoring

Knack

MAY 1, 2025

Rethinking Academic Support in Higher Ed Colleges and universities are currently facing a host of challengesdeclining enrollment, budget constraints, shifting workforce demands, and the urgent need to improve outcomes for historically underserved students.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 11, 2025

The Black-Serving Institution designation requires institutions to enroll at least 1,500 Black students or maintain a student population that is at least 10% Black, along with demonstrating academic resources and support services specifically designed to promote Black student success.

Grant

Knack

JULY 10, 2025

Across the country, students are arriving on campus with AP credits and dual enrollment experience, only to find themselves floundering in college courses. Even students in honors programs, selected through holistic review and loaded with early college credits, are turning in shallow essays and skimming the surface in class discussions.

Higher education

Knack

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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

Tutoring

Knack

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Peer tutoring has long been a staple of academic support in higher education, but could it rise to the level of a high-impact practice (HIP)?

Tutoring

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

In addition to its proven effectiveness, TRIO is essential in rural communities and under-resourced schools that often lack the infrastructure to support students from historically marginalized backgrounds. TRIO bridges that gapproviding personalized advising, mentorship, academic support, and a clear pathway to college completion.

First generation

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

The other helps lead the nation’s largest TRIO advocacy organization and began his journey as a TRIO student in a rural Washington town. If TRIO is eliminated, we lose a national infrastructure of academic support and college access that has been quietly yet consistently transforming lives for nearly six decades.

First generation

Knack

JULY 17, 2025

Nursing education has never been more rigorous, or more necessary. As the healthcare system faces staffing shortages and evolving clinical demands, the next generation of nurses must be equipped with more than clinical knowledge. They need soft skills like collaboration, communication, critical thinking, empathy, and leadership.

Leadership

Knack

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Peer tutoring offers a unique experience that combines academic support with personal growth and development for everyone involved. While students benefit greatly from working with a knowledgeable peer, the tutors themselves experience an equally valuable, often life-changing, opportunity.

Tutoring

COE

JULY 10, 2025

Natalia Giraldo-Santiago , PhD, LCSW , overcame early academic and emotional challenges through the critical academic support and mentoring provided by the TRIO Upward Bound program at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Education

Knack

JULY 24, 2025

As economic uncertainty continues to shape the future of work, business schools are facing increased pressure to prepare graduates with skills that can weather market volatility.

Tutoring

Knack

APRIL 16, 2025

As the 20242025 academic year winds down, were also marking a full year of the ICLCA / Knack Learning Center Leader Roundtable Seriesan initiative designed to bring campus leaders together for candid, practical conversations about the future of academic support.

Academic support