At the AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success, Ithaka S+R’s Michael Fried, Nathan Kelber, and Zhuo Chen will facilitate a roundtable discussion on supporting faculty in integrating AI into their teaching. The conference is scheduled to take place on April 15-18, 2026.
Events
Catharine Bond Hill, John B. King, Jr. and David Brooks at the ATI Presidential Summit
Partnerships That Matter
Accelerating Rural Student Success
At AASCU’s “Transforming Local Communities: A Symposium for Rural Presidents and Chancellors” event, Ioana Hulbert will join a cross-sector panel representing AASCU’s Rural Student Success Network, alongside panelists Peter Nwosu, Brian Noland, Stephanie Sowl, and Lisa Hunter. The panel will explore how partnerships, institutional leadership, strategic investment, and evidence-based insights transform outcomes for rural students. Learn more about the event, on April 21, 2026, at 8:30-9:30am ET.
Research Communities: The Role of the Research Enterprise in Student Success and Society
This session at the ConnectUR 2026 conference proposes a novel framework, Research Communities, for conceptualizing learning and student success in higher ed, and summarizes progress towards developing Ithaka S+R’s Research Communities portfolio, a set of completed and prospective research projects centered on studying three topics fundamental to the continued functioning of higher ed: the researcher pipeline (how people become and remain researchers), democratizing research (how researchers relate to society), and community organization (how researchers work together). Learn more about…