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A new study finds that incoming students who participated in an online belonging exercise completed their first year as full-time college students at a higher rate than their peers, but only when their institution had strong strategies and resources in place to support diverse students’ belonging. Led by the College Transition Collaborative and the IU Equity Accelerator, the research team offered a brief online reading and writing exercise to nearly 27,000 students from 22 diverse colleges and universities across the United States in fall 2015 and 2016, including IU. These results, the country’s largest multi-site randomized controlled trial of this belonging intervention, were published May 5 in Science.
“There are hundreds of thousands of students being left behind and not supported by institutions in the way they need to be supported, said Mary Murphy, IU professor of psychological and brain sciences, Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor and founder of the IU Equity Accelerator. “The Equity Accelerator is helping institutions understand what they can do to help students feel like they belong, that they are supported academically. It is important that students never feel alone, and that the institution offers tangible affordances that are recognized and used by students to help them feel a sense of belonging and to be academically successful in college.”
A new study finds an online belonging exercise offered to incoming college students showed an increased rate at which they completed the first year as full-time students, but only when their institution had strong strategies and resources in place to support diverse students’ belonging. Led by the College Transition Collaborative and the IU Equity Accelerator, the research team offered a brief online reading and writing exercise to nearly 27,000 students from 22 diverse colleges and universities across the United States, including Indiana University. These results from the country’s largest multi-site randomized controlled trial of this belonging intervention were published May 5 in Science.