Presenting findings from Springboard Foundation's White Paper, “Distinctive Pedagogies that Address the Meaning Crisis in Higher Education: Case Studies from Microcolleges and Living-Learning Institutes," we will highlight four exceptional rural institutes from Maine to Alaska and the tools they use to help young people create durable senses of meaning and purpose. We will discuss the educational conditions these institutes create to meet the meaning crisis: interdependence, work with real stakes, and an integrative relationship to place. Focusing on the pedagogies of self-governance, labor, communal living, and place-specific academics, we will hear stories of how this looks in practice. Participants will be asked to give feedback and consider how these tools might be integrated into their home settings.