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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.

Excerpt: “As vital as institutions’ support services are to cultivating student belonging, many miss the mark, especially among Black students and other persons of color. Thanks in part to feeling a lack of belonging, Black students have lower six-year college completion rates, according to the Lumina Foundation. However, a new study out of California State University, Northridge illustrates that minority and underresourced students introduced to a third-party peer connection tool improved their retention and overall enrollment rates.”