Faculty Diversity and the Student Experience: What the Research Shows
Students perform better, persist longer, and report stronger engagement when they encounter faculty who share their backgrounds. The research implicat...
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Fundraising Ethics: When Donor Intent Meets Mission Integrity
Fundraising creates ethical tensions between pursuing needed resources and maintaining mission integrity. Understanding these tensions is essential fo...
Community College Transfer: Research on What Helps Students Move to Four-Year Degrees
Community colleges serve as a critical pathway to bachelor's degree completion for millions of students. Research on what helps and hinders trans...
Rural Mental Health: Distance, Shortage, and What Can Be Done
Rural communities face severe mental health provider shortages, higher rates of suicide, and fewer treatment options. This piece examines the problem ...
The Opioid Crisis: Policy Failures, Responses, and What Works
The opioid epidemic has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Understanding the policy failures that contributed to it, and the evidence on effec...
Homework Research: What Studies Show About When It Helps and When It Hurts
Homework is one of the most debated topics in education. Research on its effects across grade levels, subjects, and student populations reveals a comp...
Telehealth Effectiveness: What Research Shows After the Pandemic Expansion
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a rapid expansion of telehealth services. Years later, researchers have begun to assess what actually works and for whom....
Sleep and Psychology: How Rest Shapes Mental Health and Cognition
Sleep is among the most consequential determinants of psychological functioning. Research on what sleep does for mental health and cognition has grown...
NIH Funding Cuts: What the Research Community Needs to Know
Proposed reductions to National Institutes of Health funding have generated significant concern in the scientific and medical research community. Here...
Social Enterprise: When Business Models Serve Mission
Social enterprises combine business activity with social mission. The evidence on what makes them work, and where they fail, is instructive for organi...