2016 Personalized Learning & Student Success Summit > Summary from the NMC

The NMC hosted the Personalized Learning & Student Success Summit at SXSWedu on March 7-9 in Austin, Texas. The summit convened grantees and partners of the Postsecondary Strategy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and served as a call-to-action for education leaders to first imagine if and then commit to trying new, evidence-driven to bolster student success for first generation and low-income students in higher education. With the imagine if theme continuing as the underpinning philosophy, this report summarizes the conversations and ideas that unfolded, emphasizing the need for collective action at scale and setting the stage for the NMC’s Personalized Learning Initiative.