courtesy of UNCF.
Leaning into the strengths of HBCUs and PBIs
Every day, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) demonstrate their exceptional ability to serve and support students, starting with fostering a true commitment to belonging. These institutions also excel at celebrating each individual’s intersecting identities and examining how those identities help shape their future.
Yet even on historic campuses with strong communities, additional support and resources can go a long way for student and institutional outcomes — boosting retention rates, bringing stopped-out students back to school, and finding ways to strengthen students’ connections to their academic and career goals. InsideTrack’s personalized coaching does just that.
Fueling student success through holistic coaching support
We are proud to partner with over 40 HBCUs & PBIs and counting to unlock the power of coaching for their students — placing an emphasis on belonging and togetherness, learning strategies and study skills, building motivation, and preparing students to embark on career paths that align with their needs. And we support institutions as they secure funding to implement coaching programs and training for their staff, sustaining the impact for years to come.
Why InsideTrack?
The numbers add up to HBCU success
Coaching that strengthens and supplements student support
Ready to learn more about how the impact of personalized coaching can transform student outcomes on HBCU and PBI campuses? InsideTrack coaching can help HBCUs incorporate success coaching into their enrollment, retention and capacity building practices, enacting a personalized coaching program at scale.
The power of partnership in action
In this video, explore how UNCF tapped into InsideTrack coaching as an evidence-based way to advance learners, share institutional insights, and use a networked approach for learnings across the UNCF HBCUs and PBIs.
HBCU case studies and partner profiles
HBCU Center of Coaching Excellence
HBCUs across the country have seen firsthand that the power of coaching is transformational — positioning them as exemplary partners to amplify a learner-centered higher education model. That’s the impetus behind the HBCU Center of Coaching Excellence — to shine a light on how HBCUs have supported students with holistic coaching, providing the higher ed sector with research, communications and events that unearth coaching insights and share best practices.
Trusted partners in the HBCU sector
HBCUs disproportionately enroll and support students from low-income backgrounds as well as those who are first-generation college students — students who gain significant value from this type of one-on-one coaching and support. By both providing individualized coaching for current and former students, as well as building capacity for institutions to continue this important work over time, this initiative will help institutions capitalize on the current momentum.
Harry Williams
President and CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Student success is absolutely about connection and belonging. But it also has to be about formalized support and engagement throughout the student journey to ensure that students not only persist and graduate, but that they also become stewards of their institutions and proud alumni.
Dr. Ka'rin Thornburg
Director of Partnership Engagement, Program Development, & Effectiveness, Partnership for Education Advancement
We have to understand how to make every touchpoint with students meaningful. We have to understand and correct broken processes in leaky pipelines. And we have to do it with a networked approach to ultimately make sure institutional support and resources are jointly shared. Our partnership with InsideTrack does all of that.
Ed Smith-Lewis
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Institutional Programs, UNCF
Stopping or dropping out impacts more than just the student. It impacts their families, their careers, their communities and their future. InsideTrack has allowed us to say in contact with those students, and it expresses to those students that even though you're not here, we're still concerned about what is going on with you.
Dr. Glenell Lee-Pruitt
President, Jarvis Christian University
Students want to feel supported. At the end of the day, they want to feel that we are there to give them the information and dedication and compassion and empathy that will carry them through. Because life is hard. This is not just about college, it’s about who you are as a human being. So if we can connect those coaches and their experience to our students, it goes a long way.
Monica White
Director of Admissions, Dillard University
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