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InSpace is an immersive learning environment for connecting and collaborating online. InSpace is a place for virtual teaching and learning with research-backed best practices. InSpace isn’t purpose-built for boardrooms and slideshows (although you can use it for board meetings too)...

By Narine Hall, CEO Two years ago, I listened to an ASU+GSV talk with SNHU President Paul LeBlanc about how so many well-intentioned educators inadvertently dehumanize the people they are supposed to serve. It resonated: I had witnessed some of these same things in the pandemic’s shift to remote learning, and I remember wanting to […]

Academic advising can reach every student at the institution; it’s time to leverage it. According to Eric R. White, executive director of the Division of Undergraduate Studies, the associate dean for advising at Pennsylvania State University, and a past president of NACADA, “Some configuration of academic advising is available at all American higher education institutions...

Students and professionals benefit from the flexibility of virtual advising when offered on all types of campuses. When emergency remote advising was in full swing, flexibility to ‘meet students where they were’ was essential. This aspect of pandemic-era advising for students and advisors alike must be sustained...

Proactive student services help students find what they need and give them greater access to their own data. As one Student Voice survey respondent from a California community college states, “There were times I was looking to do something, and I needed help on where to find it...

Academic advising is no longer a casual, drop-in endeavor; it’s essential to the student academic experience. Interviewed on Office Hours with John Gardner, Georgia State’s Dr. Tim Renick characterizes past generations’ academic advising as a casual enterprise...

Proactive practices and holistic wraparound services will help professional academic advisors navigate the student experience. As Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in the May 2022 University Innovation Alliance panel on the future of academic advising, “We know the majority of folks who go to college don’t graduate […] I don’t think anyone has […]

High percentages of students still aren’t meeting with advisors, and those who would most benefit tend to be at-risk learners who would benefit from appreciative advising practices. One in ten students doesn’t meet with their advisor during the academic year (Kuh, 2008), citing the inconvenience of sessions and poor perceptions of the academic advising experience […]

The rapid shift towards virtual learning has increased reliance on video conferencing for education. While Zoom has emerged as a popular choice, there is a need for socially sensitive alternatives that prioritize building social capital for students on virtual campuses...

Learners want to make meaningful connections with their advisors, peers, and professors, but whether on-campus or online, it’s not happening enough. The struggle is, by now, familiar. Craters, potholes, cracks, and gaps dapple the road to college...

In the wake of recent surveys revealing inequitable access to academic advising, it’s time to prioritize a new student-centered approach that reaches every student enrolled at an institution. Spend enough time as an academic advisor and you’ll see a certain Kuh (2008) citation trotted out more than a few times in the lit: One in […]