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Webinar invite: Black, transfer, male, first-gen enrollment & retention w/Cal State leaders on Jan 24, 2024

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.

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.”

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.