NinerLink by InScribe Community of Practice

Building Capacity for Student Success

In the Fall of 2024, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) was awarded a Student Success grant from the Office of Undergraduate Education (UGE) to build capacity for AI-Powered Student Support Communities (NinerLink by InScribe) in core course sequences.

Shankari Somayaji
Biological Sciences

As a part of this work, the CTL has hired a NinerLink faculty fellow, Shankari Somayaji, to lead the Spring 2025 charge to enhance student success outcomes in engagement, belonging, peer discourse, learning efficacy, and personalized support through the following tactics:

Faculty Development for Online Student Support Communities

Data-Driven Community Support and Interventions

By Developing a Multi-Stakeholder Community of Practice (CoP)

The Spring 2025 NinerLink by InScribe Community of Practice includes 9 faculty champions currently leveraging NinerLink in their courses to identify best practices and develop resources that support and improve the use of NinerLink as a student support service on our campus. 

Outcomes of their work include onboarding resources and programs for NinerLink student-users, moderators (typically teaching assistants) and faculty, for the seamless integration of NinerLink into future courses.

Matt Thayer
Computer Science

Dace Brown
Gerontology

Nadia Najjar
Software and Information Systems

Samantha Suptela
Biological Sciences

Jamie Strickland
Environmental Sciences

Marlon Mejias
Software and Information Systems

Dale-Marie Wilson
Software and Information Systems

Harini Ramaprasad
Computing

Adam Whaley
Bioinformatics

Lauren Slane
Computer Science