Nearpeer, Inc.

09/19/2024

🎓 New college grad Jean-Daniel Liwanga discusses the power of and in . We love his story and wanted to share it with you. Jean-Daniel was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and emigrated to the U.S. as a child with his family. In 2020, he began his first year at the University of Southern Maine and graduated in 2024. Jean-Daniel has been a student Nearpeer user, and we loved having him as a full-time summer intern. Congratulations on your success, Jean-Daniel, and your bright future ahead! ☀️

04/12/2024

Welcome to the Nearpeer family, Athabasca University! AU is our first partner in Canada 🍁. We're excited to foster AU student and to improve , , , , and more.

04/04/2024

Award alert! 🏆 Nearpeer is honored to receive this "Best in Education" award for our groundbreaking THEY BELONG study & report with California State University, Northridge. This study measured Nearpeer's impact across 12,000 new college students over 18 months, including enrollment & retention gains of +17% for Black students, +8% for , and +4% for . Get the report here: https://info.nearpeer.com/theybelong

03/14/2024

Congrats to the University of Utah on their Nearpeer launch to building belonging, connection, and community among Fall '24 admitted & committed recruits. Building on last year's success together & 's 1st year in the Big 12!

12/13/2023

ICYMI: Forbes' Derek Newton explores how Nearpeer's positive impact on student improves , , and https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2023/12/05/a-college-recruitment-tool-thats-proven-to-work/

11/04/2022

Great, new podcast worth a listen! On building student sense of belonging to improve recruiting & student success - featuring California State University, Northridge's Aaron Lindberg, Nearpeer's Founder & CEO Dustin Manocha, and host Stephanie Krusemark.

https://www.aacrao.org/resources/newsletters-blogs/admit-it-blog/article/admit-it/2022/11/08/s3e6-building-incoming-students-sense-of-belonging

10/17/2022

We're honored to sponsor the NAFSA Region XI conference and look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

We can't believe tomorrow our conference finally kicks off tomorrow! We are looking forward to hearing from Nearpeer, Inc. at our opening ceremony - thank you for sponsoring!

06/08/2022

Congratulations to California State University, Northridge on their successful Nearpeer@CSUN launch and already over 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ new peer connections in the first 10 days by incoming Fall 2022 students to build community and belonging!

02/12/2022

Attending the First Year Experience Conference? Say hello at booth 19 and check out our session tomorrow (Sunday, 10:15am, Salon 9): "University of Oklahoma’s path to student happiness, engagement, and inclusion with Nearpeer," co-presented by OU's Evan Razor and Nearpeer's Founder & CEO Dustin Manocha

10/29/2021

“It gives you a footing to decide whether or not this is someone you want to know on a more personal level,” says EMCC student Crystal Babcock. “Nearpeer gives you that platform to communicate and get to know your classmates better, and find out what commonalities you have. … Nearpeer addresses barriers, and concerns and interests.”

In this article, CCDaily takes a closer look at how some colleges are working to improve peer connection across every student's learning journey.

AACC corporate sponsor profile In the NBC sitcom “Community,” a group of community-college students of various ages and backgrounds quickly bonds into a friendship circle in a matter of weeks, after initially coming together to...

09/24/2021

From Clarion Herald News: Loyola University of New Orleans launches Nearpeer to help students build meaningful connections with other students like them.

https://clarionherald.org/news/sharing-interests-connections-goal-of-college-app