"Six years ago, just 6 percent of the students enrolled at Atlanta’s Perimeter College earned a degree in three years. That year, the college merged with neighboring Georgia State University, which has a well-deserved reputation for boosting graduation rates and closing the opportunity gap. The effect has been astonishing — now, more than 80 percent of Perimeter’s full-time students have either graduated, transferred or are still enrolled within three years of starting college. Not only has the graduation rate risen, the opportunity gap has been wiped out."

-Dr. David Kirp, Senior Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute
Washington Post, 2021

"The lessons learned by Georgia State are transferable. We have just opened the National Institute for Student Success to disseminate our practices to other colleges and universities, and the federal government has proposed national funding for the scaling of evidence-based programs that help college students succeed. While American higher education was not designed to produce equitable outcomes, we now have the power to redesign our campuses to provide timely, individualized support to all students. As Georgia State University has shown over the past decade, the results can be transformative."

-Dr. Tim Renick, NISS Executive Director
EdScoop, 2021