Against the backdrop of the nation's digital education strategy, enhancing students' digital literacy in private universities has become a critical component of transforming higher education quality. This paper identifies core challenges in digital application, information processing, content creation, self-directed learning, and educational provision through analyzing the structure of student digital literacy and conducting a current status survey. Based on a four-dimensional cyclical framework—“Awareness-Access-Practice-Evaluation”—a systematic enhancement pathway is constructed, emphasizing the coordinated advancement of precise assessment, curriculum restructuring, self-empowerment, and institutional safeguards. Moving forward, private universities must deepen educational digitalization reforms, optimize resource allocation and teaching systems, and establish long-term mechanisms supporting the comprehensive development of students' digital literacy. This will enable a high-quality transformation in talent cultivation and a leap in educational adaptability for the digital era.

Haixin Sun. Research on Pathways for Enhancing Digital Literacy among Students in Private Higher Education Institutions in the Context of Educational Digitalization. Frontiers in Educational Research (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 10: 141-146. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.081021.

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