PORTLAND, Maine, April 2, 2024 — Nearpeer, the leading peer-to-peer student platform for universities, today announced that was an inaugural winner of the 2023 “Best in Education” awards – The Besties  – by EdTech Chronicle.  Nearpeer earned this special award in recognition of its groundbreaking THEY BELONG report about its program and 12,000 student study with California State University, Northridge.  The report is available here: https://info.nearpeer.com/theybelong.