by Believe in Students | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog
As I am writing this post, campuses all across the country are deciding – some already have decided – how to respond to various directives and threats of withholding funding from the federal government. In perhaps the largest financial threat, Harvard University has...
by Believe in Students | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog
In December 2024, Believe in Students celebrated a significant milestone as our founding Board Chair, Richard Binswanger, stepped down from his position. The following resolution, presented by our incoming Board Chair, Jesse Thompson, expresses our profound gratitude...
by Believe in Students | Nov 26, 2024 | Blog
Believe in Students was founded in 2016, at the dawn of the first Trump administration. After years of changing higher education finances, the burden on students had become so great that studies regularly showed that more than half of all college students struggled...
by Believe in Students | Oct 10, 2024 | Blog
I arrived at Believe in Students in April 2020, just as the pandemic was rocking the world and changing college campuses, in some ways permanently. My job when I arrived was to figure out how to utilize incredibly generous philanthropic support to provide emergency...
by Brittney Pless | May 7, 2024 | Blog, Letters from our Executive Director
Like many people I know, I spent many hours as a child “playing school” in my basement. Occasionally I had to be the student while my younger sister bossed me around, but mostly, I was the teacher. Looking back, there were a shocking number of unruly imaginary...
by Believe in Students | Apr 1, 2024 | Blog, Letters from our Executive Director
Dear Friend: We are in an extraordinarily challenging time for higher education. In 2020, the pandemic helped shed light on the issues we have long known are true: the increase in the price of college for students and the accompanying rise in basic needs insecurity...
