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May 18, 2026. By Marybeth Gasman, Contributor, Forbes. Ed Advancement’s new report on the Front Porch Portal focuses on how students often cannot easily find the information they need to stay enrolled and on track to graduate. The Front Porch Portal functions as...

April 29, 2026. By Abby Sourwine, Center for Digital Education, GovTech. In response to student feedback, Virginia State University worked with the nonprofit Ed Advancement on a platform that aggregates financial, academic and administrative information into a single interface for HBCUs....

NEW YORK (April 8, 2026) — Ed Advancement—a national nonprofit strengthening the operational capacity of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which play an outsized role in advancing social and economic mobility— released a new report detailing how a mobile-friendly...

Ed Advancement is proud to partner with South Carolina State University to reimagine how students access the information they need to succeed. Together, we helped design and implement our Front Porch Portal powered by Slate, bringing personalized academic, financial, and...

Co-designed by partner HBCUs — and further developed and piloted by Virginia State University — our Front Porch Portal is a web-based unified data platform that provides students with flexible, convenient access to the college-related resources they’re looking for. From...