Bridge Gaps and Elevate Futures
Upswing provides transformative wraparound student services that empowers students with support from academics to mental health. Our impact-first approach helps HBCUs improve student retention, reduce achievement gaps, and create a stronger community of belonging for all students.
Bridge Gaps and Elevate Futures
Upswing provides transformative wraparound student services that empowers students with support from academics to mental health. Our impact-first approach helps HBCUs improve student retention, reduce achievement gaps, and create a stronger community of belonging for all students.
Featured HBCU Partners:
Upswing helps NC A&T retain students & save money
NC A&T experienced rapid growth in on-campus tutoring through its Center for Academic Excellence, but struggled to find ways to provide support for niche and upper-level courses. Through focus group data, they also found most students were studying during the hours of 12 a.m. to 3 a.m. when the on-campus Tutorial Lab was closed.
They needed a 24/7 academic support solution that would allow their diverse student body to not only choose the services that fit their own unique needs, but to also access those services on their own time and personal devices.
Hear from Upswing’s HBCU partners
Upswing is proud to partner with 16 HBCUs. Despite recent enrollment growth, the completion rate of Black students is still much lower than that of White students. Through our work together, nearly 200,000 students at HBCUs have received access to Upswing and 3,500 HBCU students have been retained.
Winston-Salem State University
