Institutions are playing a more hands-on role in preparing young people for greater things after earning their degree. At the 2024 University Innovation Alliance National Summit, we heard from two speakers spotlighting two very different initiatives, each striking a similar chord of mentoring and supporting young people to launch their careers.
We sat down with Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, for a return visit to the
In his powerful, straightforward keynote at the UIA National Summit, Dr.
When we hosted our 2024 National Summit on Student Success, we selected keynote speakers to guide our critical three-day conversation. One of these luminaries was Dr. Raj Chetty, Director of Opportunity Insights and the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Angela Duckworth, co-director of the Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, discusses the threshold for institutions joining the program, how it supports first-year and transfer students, pitching it to administrators, and using the resulting data.
In 2024, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) celebrated a decade of transformative impact. What began in 2014 as a bold experiment by 11 universities has grown into a collaborative movement to dramatically redefine what’s possible in higher education: increased student success. We knew that graduating thousands more students would require reimagining how institutions tackle big challenges. Together, we innovated, shared knowledge, and built a culture of collaboration that now inspires change far beyond our campuses.