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The article focuses on the role of higher education in well-being and empowerment of students in the U.S. Topics include role of higher education in enhancing self-confidence and self-efficacy in students; the national Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) project which focuses on student well-being as outcome of learning and the Engelhard Project to Connect Life and Learning of Georgetown University. Other topics include liberal education and college staff to acknowledge student well-being.

The article focuses on the national trends in student participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in the U.S. and its associated learning outcomes through the use of campus-level assessment. It says that the practices have high degree of positive effect on the self-reported outcomes of students in three state systems such as California, Oregon and Wisconsin State Systems Data; however they are not uniformly effective. It mentions that campuses within the state systems have performed a good job in expanding first-year programming. It adds that college campuses should interrogate NSSE data and other forms of institutional data to help in advancing the knowledge of participation and access to sources of engaged learning experiences.