At Florida Atlantic University, leaders prioritized open access and instructor autonomy to support student writers at scale. With campus-wide availability and a natural fit across Word, Google Docs, Outlook, and Gmail, Grammarly helped reduce the number of mechanical errors in student writing and enabled instructors to focus more time on ideas.

Key impact stats:

• 5.3% increase in retention, with students who had access to Grammarly at 79.5% versus 74.2% for peers
  
• 4.3% increase in STEM course completion, with 93.3% of students with access finishing writing-intensive STEM courses versus 89.0% of peers
  
• 3.3% increase in course completion in writing-intensive courses, with 92.7% of students with access to Grammarly finishing versus 89.4% of peers
  

Taken together, Florida Atlantic’s findings guide peers in using always-on, stigma-free writing support to improve outcomes and provide access for every learner while preserving faculty time for deeper teaching.