Knack

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Equity in education remains one of the most pressing challenges in higher education. Programs like peer tutoring, supplemental instruction, and targeted interventions play a critical role in leveling the playing field, ensuring that every student has the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their starting point.

Academic support

Knack

JULY 1, 2025

Today, UNH students have logged over 19,000 tutoring hours through Knack, demonstrating not just demand, but sustained engagement across courses and student demographics. Over 54% of Knack users had never engaged with tutoring before —a critical data point for any institution seeking to improve equity in access.

Tutoring

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

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. A school that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion is not only doing the right thing, but it is also making a smart investment in its future, and its community.

Financial aid

School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To ensure fairness and equity in the financial aid process, schools must rely on objective criteria. Academic support services, such as tutoring and test prep, can help students succeed academically. Personalized learning plans, tutoring services, and extracurricular activities can help students catch up and excel.

Financial aid

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Address financial concerns Promote the affordability of support services by clearly communicating when specific resources, like counseling or tutoring, are free. Empower students to seek support today Promoting help-seeking behaviors on your campus is more than an administrative initiativeits a commitment to equity and academic success.

Mental health

Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

and sending targeted reminders for tutoring or upcoming assignments to keep them on track before challenges escalate.For example, SUNY Broome recognized the need to shift away from a reactive advising approach, where students would drop in and meet with whichever advisor was available.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Fostering a deeper understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at U.S. Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs aim to right the past and present wrongs of America. colleges and universities, was the focus of a webinar sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. They're not anti-American.

Higher education

Knack

JUNE 5, 2025

This year, at the Knack Partner Awards, we recognized institutions that lead the way in peer tutoring, student support, and academic innovation. Our Top School category honors the five campuses with the highest tutoring usage across all Knack programs. These partners didnt just support students.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

At Queens College a City University of New York, or CUNY school in Flushing, New York the campus Writing Center offers multilingual tutors to make it easier and more welcoming for a student body whose ancestries can be traced to 153 countries.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) have made a pledge for educational equity, and institutional and organizational partnerships will help make that pledge a reality. Academic tutoring and guidance counselors make sure students are on track to receive credit or potentially transfer to a four-year institution.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This research showed significant increases in persistence for students who participated in tutoring programs and who received supplemental instruction. We learned that tutoring was immensely effective for males and African American students, in particular.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

What we need to do is make a funding model that’s based on an attainment goal, work it backwards with equity at the heart so that we can actually have these colleges act as the engines of social mobility that they’re supposed to be.” If they are having trouble, get them to the right tutor. Or get them the basic needs support they need.”

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Dr. Cindy Trejo According to Dr. Cindy Trejo, author of a new report produced by the Rutgers University’s Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice, what the school does is simply “magic.” “I To me, that's just a beautiful story about equity and about having that inclusive mindset that doesn't see risk factors.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

It becomes an equity issue,” said Kim Hughes, director of the UTeach Institute at the University of Texas. AAMUTeach will also provide tutoring as well as test preparation to ensure that its students are able to move into the workforce quickly. UTeach is going to give them a support network so they know they’re not alone.”

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Strengthening community-based programs that proved mentoring, tutoring, and college preparatory resources can help African American men succeed academically. This is not just a matter of equity but a necessity for the advancement and enrichment of our society as a whole.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, Equity, and Affordability: A Primer for Higher Education Leaders and Educators " a report produced by Whiteboard Advisors and created in partnership with the Harvard-MIT Axim Collaborative, details the ways in which AI can be used to assist colleges and universities with student support, data organization, enrollment, and retention. “We

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Over the past two decades, promise programs, in which recent high school graduates are offered free tuition to attend local colleges and universities, have become popular tools to bridge equity gaps in higher ed, with over 300 programs active in over 40 states. Race-neutral policies are inherently not neutral,” he said.

Adult education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Despite these promising prospects, it is crucial to acknowledge that the rapid progress in technology and related fields may not be accompanied by equity unless intentional efforts are made.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is a social justice issue, an equity issue,” said Cargas. “If We talk about academic problems all the time—we advertise our tutoring programs—now we have to make basic needs as much as issue that needs attending to, that universities and colleges have the resources for.”

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. As the Hispanic population in the U.S.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Lewis said that Generation Hope will cultivate leaders who can expand on the mission and dedicate themselves to the organization's Race Equity Blueprint, which acknowledges systemic racial inequity. The nonprofit organization plans to continue expanding its own workforce. metro area and New Orleans, their latest regional expansion.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. Alexander says one of the most pressing issues in higher education is diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s one of the reasons I’m so sad with the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in southern states, because they are diversifying fast and DEI is a practical response to making sure you have a work environment that’s collaborative and successful for all the members of the campus, and that includes your students.” asks Delgado.

Advising

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Faculty and staff who are aware of their own potential biases and the societal biases embedded in the data are better equipped to use these models to support rather than hinder equity in student outcomes. On the other hand, they could consider their role in proving the model wrong.

Literacy

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Students can go for tutoring, writing support and other things at no charge. “Because of the range of programs we have, there are many career paths,” Carter says. in management and leadership.

Retention

Knack

JUNE 11, 2024

The University of San Diego (USD) has transformed its peer tutoring system by leveraging technology to support and engage all students. This strategic shift not only increased student engagement but also aimed to close equity gaps, especially for historically disengaged learners.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

The basic needs hub offers all kinds of assistance, including help with transportation, childcare, and its own market for fresh food, a significant addition because the campus is in a food desert, according to Forde Spiers.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’” Watford says. For a lot of them, it comes down to a sense of community.”

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Although Dominican does not have graduate programs, students who show an interest in becoming nurse educators are engaged after graduation as tutors and encouraged to participate in other activities, thus setting them on the path. She says employers need to create conditions that support recruitment and retention.

Faculty

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

Student success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

Student success

COE

APRIL 7, 2023

The project aims to provide guidance and insights for colleges and universities seeking to create effective and sustainable career development programs that promote equity and opportunity for historically marginalized learners.

Grant

EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

November 17, 2021 3 ways to prevent summer melt—and why technology is more important than ever July 20, 2021 What role can student success technology play in improving equity? June 14, 2021 The post Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference appeared first on EAB.

Advising

EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Closing equity gaps may become even harder. The underlying social inequities that drove pre-pandemic equity gaps have not gone away and are now being compounded by a political backlash. The Moon Shot for Equity Learn how our partners are closing regional equity gaps. Strengthen your math tutoring and academic support.

Student success

EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Closing equity gaps may become even harder. The underlying social inequities that drove pre-pandemic equity gaps have not gone away and are now being compounded by a political backlash. The Moon Shot for Equity Learn how our partners are closing regional equity gaps. Strengthen your math tutoring and academic support.

Student success