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Students at some Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions may soon have an easier path to graduation thanks to a new course-sharing program from the Southern Regional Education Board.

The Southern Regional Education Board launched a new HBCU-MSI Course-Sharing Consortium powered by Acadeum that will give students at seven colleges and universities the opportunity to continue their studies unimpeded as they work toward graduating on time.

This chapter illustrates the use of a team-based approach, known as the LIFT framework, at Benedict College, a small private HBCU in Columbia, South Carolina to promote retention, persistence, and navigation of resources for students.

To help students across the degree finish line, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has announced an online course-sharing consortium for several public and private HBCUs as well as other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in five Southern states.

The funding will support a collaboration between DigiTex and Acadeum to assist colleges across Texas in solving the problems of persistence, on-time completion, and access to courses to assist in fulfilling guided pathways, through inter-institutional course sharing.

The League for Innovation in the Community College Online Course Sharing Consortium seeks to link community colleges to share learning content.

Academic advisors are a critical part of the course-sharing process. When students seek guidance—or, need in-person intervention to keep progressing on their academic journey—advisors are the first line of defense to offer advice and solutions to help them overcome hurdles.

Students who need to re-take certain courses can now catch up almost before the next semester begins.

New technologies like course sharing can reinvent higher ed to better serve students and use resources, says Dean Jason Lane of Miami University.