The Partnership Brief

What 3 Years of Partnership Data Actually Looks Like

What 3 Years of Partnership Data Actually Looks...

Most of what gets published about student development programming is either a single-semester pilot report or a theoretical framework with no applied data behind it yet. What’s genuinely rare is...

What 3 Years of Partnership Data Actually Looks...

Most of what gets published about student development programming is either a single-semester pilot report or a theoretical framework with no applied data behind it yet. What’s genuinely rare is...

The First-Generation Application Surge: Is Your Support Ready?

The First-Generation Application Surge: Is Your...

Common App data from this admissions cycle shows first-generation applicant growth consistently outpacing continuing-generation growth, at various points in the cycle running as high as 12 to 14% year over...

The First-Generation Application Surge: Is Your...

Common App data from this admissions cycle shows first-generation applicant growth consistently outpacing continuing-generation growth, at various points in the cycle running as high as 12 to 14% year over...

Attention Spans on a Screen Have Dropped From 2.5 Minutes to 47 Seconds. Now What?

Attention Spans on a Screen Have Dropped From 2...

Dr. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at UC Irvine who has been measuring sustained attention for nearly two decades, has documented one of the more striking cognitive shifts of...

Attention Spans on a Screen Have Dropped From 2...

Dr. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at UC Irvine who has been measuring sustained attention for nearly two decades, has documented one of the more striking cognitive shifts of...

4 Gaps in the K-12 to Higher-Ed Readiness Pipeline

4 Gaps in the K-12 to Higher-Ed Readiness Pipeline

Most of the attrition institutions lose sleep over doesn’t happen because a student wasn’t capable. It happens in the handoff, the space between a student leaving a K-12 environment built...

4 Gaps in the K-12 to Higher-Ed Readiness Pipeline

Most of the attrition institutions lose sleep over doesn’t happen because a student wasn’t capable. It happens in the handoff, the space between a student leaving a K-12 environment built...

What a 34% Anxiety Rate Means for Your Building

What a 34% Anxiety Rate Means for Your Building

National anxiety symptom rates among college students rose from 22% in 2014 to 34% in 2024, according to Healthy Minds Network data compiled by the American Council on Education. Depression...

What a 34% Anxiety Rate Means for Your Building

National anxiety symptom rates among college students rose from 22% in 2014 to 34% in 2024, according to Healthy Minds Network data compiled by the American Council on Education. Depression...

The Pilot Program Trap: Why 1-Semester Interventions Don’t Stick

The Pilot Program Trap: Why 1-Semester Interven...

Walk into most institutions and you’ll find a familiar pattern: a workshop series here, a guest speaker there, a semester-long pilot program that generates a tidy outcomes report and then...

The Pilot Program Trap: Why 1-Semester Interven...

Walk into most institutions and you’ll find a familiar pattern: a workshop series here, a guest speaker there, a semester-long pilot program that generates a tidy outcomes report and then...