Inspirations for 2025: Innovative ways campuses are welcoming students to Nearpeer
Creative student outreach and communications fosters greater Nearpeer engagement, belonging, and success. Learn from peer institutions.
Nearpeer hosts “Belonging Before Beginning” panel discussion with Cal Poly Pomona, Athabasca University, and UCCS leaders at AACRAO SEM Conference in Boston
Leaders at three institutions across North America come together to discuss how to foster greater belonging and enrollment outcomes in strategic partnership with Nearpeer.
UC Colorado Springs discusses their Nearpeer success in student newspaper
“New app that helps incoming students form connections sees success in first month.” By: Joseph Impellitteri On: September 25, 2024
Nearpeer receives “Best in Education” award
EdTech Chronicle, the online publication covering education and education technology, today announced Nearpeer as a winner of the inaugural, 2023 “Best in Education” awards – The Besties.
Butler University, Nearpeer Announce “Belonging Before Arriving” Community of Practice to Improve Student Connection & Well-being
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Nearpeer, the leading peer-to-peer student platform for universities, today announced a new partnership with Butler University’s Institute for Well-Being to establish a working Community of Practice for higher education leaders to collaborate on data-driven approaches to creating a foundation for new student success with a focus on intentionally fostering a greater student sense of belonging early in their college journey. The Community of Practice comes at a pivotal time for the U.S. as it faces record levels of youth and young adults reporting anxiety, depression, isolation, and loneliness.
eCampus News: “Building social connection without the pitfalls of social media”
Building social connection without the pitfalls of social media by
Frank E. Ross III, PhD, Vice President for Student Affairs, Butler University
January 24, 2024
Institutions should prioritize opportunities to help students develop healthy social connections and foster meaningful relationships with other students
Webinar: The Untapped Power of Belonging (Jan 24, 2024 at 2:00pm ET)
Webinar invite: Black, transfer, male, first-gen enrollment & retention w/Cal State leaders on Jan 24, 2024
Belonging Before Arriving (Webinar): Butler University’s innovative, data-driven path to well-being & enrollment (Dec 13, 2023 at 1:30pm ET)
On-demand Replay: Butler University is widely recognized for innovative student support practices and making data-driven decisions. Using Nearpeer to cultivate healthy peer engagement early in the student journey is an example of how Butler continuously evolves their approach to new student transition and first-year experience.
Forbes on Nearpeer: A College Recruitment Tool That’s Proven To Work
Excerpt: “For those in the know, or who follow the razor’s edge world of college recruitment, boosting enrollment is gold. But also boosting retention, as was shown in this study, is platinum.”
THEY BELONG: ground-breaking new report released
In this groundbreaking study, California State University, Northridge (CSUN) studied how increased belonging & peer connection via Nearpeer impacted enrollment across 12,000 incoming Fall 2022 students from summer 2022, on to the start of their first term (Fall 2022), and first-year persistence into Fall 2023.