New Partnership Announcement: HACU + CircleIn

Written by CircleIn Team | January 19, 2025

HACU and CircleIn are teaming up to help over 600 colleges and universities accelerate student success, and over 5 million students thrive academically.

Miami Dade College, Shrinks Failure Rates in

Gateway Courses with CircleIn...

The administration, staff and professors at Miami Dade College (68% Pell, 58% first Generation, 36% online, and 100% commuter) were actively trying to shrink the failure rates of students in Math, Science, and English. They well executed several in house supports like Peer Led Team Learning (similar to SI or embedded tutoring), but the courses continued to be a fall on their list of gatekeeper, high DFW rate courses..

They knew the high impact practice of Peer Led Learning worked and they just needed a tool to help scale it equitably to enable all students to engage as a commuter school with a working, adult and online population. They also have over 7,000 dual enrollment students who they cannot reach with traditional student supports. MDC partnered with us at CircleIn to provide students a solution to build better study habits and give and receive help from their classmates (Virtual Peer Led Learning).

Take a look at the findings below in the chart…

Extremely promising student success results for HSIs, commuter schools, schools with adult or online learners and also for open access institutions.

To learn more about the partnership between HACU and CircleIn to support HACU members, please email: Gerald Meggett, Co-Founder and CEO of CircleIn at Gerald@CirlceInApp.com

HSI CUNY York Increases STEM Course Pass

Rates with CircleIn...

Dear University Colleagues,

I hope you are doing well as the Spring 2025 semester sets sail. I am writing to you about an incredible student success results with CircleIn. CircleIn is a peer-led learning software application that allows students to collaborate in a secure study-scape.

At York College, we have used CircleIn in a Pilot format over the last year and a half. The Pilot program focused on some of our gateway STEM courses with high “DFW” rates. Immediately, we noticed a reduction in the DFW rates in classes that featured high student engagement with CircleIn. The preliminary results from our Pilot program have been so encouraging that we plan to rollout CircleIn to all of our classes.

With CircleIn, students can ask questions anonymously, create flashcards or share external resources. Even though the learning experience is student-driven, Instructors can use the “Course Feedback” tool to determine where students might be struggling or where to tweak their lectures.

It also bears mentioning that it has been a joy to collaborate with the staff at CircleIn. The company’s founding story is inspirational and the Co-founder, Gerald Meggett, is deeply committed to making CircleIn a premier tool for closing gaps in education. The rest of the personnel – including our rep, Dana Thomas - shares the founding passion and brings a wealth of experience and responsiveness to their interactions with our faculty and staff.

If you are also thinking about shrinking “DFW” rates in STEM courses, don’t hesitate to partner with CircleIn! And if you want to know more about the CircleIn experience at York College, don’t hesitate to reach out to me.

Dr. George White, Jr.
Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences
CUNY York College

To learn more about the partnership between HACU and CircleIn to support HACU members, please email: Gerald Meggett, Co-Founder and CEO of CircleIn at Gerald@CirlceInApp.com

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Failure Rates in Gateway Courses"...

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To learn more about the partnership between HACU and CircleIn to support HACU members, please email: Gerald Meggett, Co-Founder and CEO of CircleIn at Gerald@CirlceInApp.com

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