How One App Is Making Space for All Students in Higher Education

The business, which works primarily with colleges and universities, especially targets nontraditional students who are at greater risk of dropping out. Working parents, first-generation college students, foreign-born students, older students — all of them face bigger obstacles than typical 18- to 21-year-olds.

“More than 65% of these students actually will drop out before they finish their degree or the certificate that they’re going for, so it’s a big population of learners,” Inscribe co-founder and CEO Katy Kappler said. “It’s a population that really wants and needs support.”