CE Webinar Series

Understanding Students’ Friendships: How Friendship Networks Matter During College

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
12-1 pm ET

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Webinar

CE Webinar Series

Understanding Students’ Friendships: How Friendship Networks Matter During College

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | 12-1 pm ET

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Exclusive for Uwill Clients: Earn CE Credits at Our Upcoming Webinar

How do friendships matter socially and academically during college? Friendships can be an overlooked and crucial aspect of college. College students form different types of friendship networks (tight-knitters, compartmentalizers, and samplers) and use them in different ways to manage their academic and social lives. This webinar will cover the presenter’s empirical findings, theoretical concepts about friendship in college (social capital, for example) as well as practical applications for campuses of all types.

Target Audience:

This webinar is ideal for higher education professionals who work directly with students across a wide range of roles. Whether supporting student well-being, academic success, or overall campus experience, this session is applicable for the following audience:

Recommended for:
• Counseling center clinicians
• Health center staff
• Student affairs professionals
• Athletics department staff and coaches
• Academic affairs professionals and faculty advisors
• Residence life and housing staff
• Disability services personnel
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioners

CE Credit:

Participants who attend the live session can earn 1 NBCC credit hour. Uwill has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7511. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Uwill is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Uwill, provider #2030, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course and complete an online evaluation. Certificates of completion will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Uwill maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 8/6/25-8/6/28. Social workers participating in this course receive 1 continuing education credit.

Contact:

For questions, concerns, or to request special accommodations, please email support@uwill.com.

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Speaker: Janice McCabe, PhD
President of the Sociology of Education,
Professor, Department of Sociology and WGSS, Dartmouth College

Dr. Janice McCabe is the Allen House Professor and an associate professor of sociology and the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. She teaches courses on the sociology of education, youth, gender, social problems, and research methods at Dartmouth. Her books, Connecting in College: How Friendships Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Making, Keeping and Losing Friends: How Campuses Share College Students’ Networks (University of Chicago Press, October 2025) focus on friendship networks and identities during college and into young adulthood. Her research has been highlighted, among other places, in the Washington Post, Time magazine, NPR, New York Magazine and the Boston Globe.

Learning Objectives:

Describe how friendships can provide social and academic benefits for students.
Describe how friendships can get in the way socially and academically for students.
Identify and describe the three types of friendship networks.
Identify at least one strategy to cultivate meaningful friendships that can be applied on your campus.