To help higher education fulfill its mission in the near and long term: use behavioral science as a lens, see the system, and build behavioral science into organizations.
The elimination of student debt made headlines this year, but there was another less conspicuous change to the way millions of students pay for college that could have a big impact on college access and affordability.
Feeling uncertain about whether you belong is normal. But for some, the uncertainty persists longer than others. A duo of psychologists designed an intervention to change that.
A decade ago, it seemed like text-based interventions could help students meet their college goals. Now, those interventions don’t seem to work at scale. How are scientists meeting the problem of scalability?
What a new meta-analysis shows about the ways video and in-person instruction influence student learning.
There are plenty of policies and programs aimed at getting people to finish college, but little evidence that they work. Better understanding the barriers to re-enrollment and degree attainment can lead to more effective solutions.
We need creative, disruptive solutions that make a real and lasting dent on inequalities in college completion.
