Research on Academic Success

College Student Success

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Email is likely to be the most efficient way to reach us, and we can use e-mail to arrange follow-up phone conversations.

Don Hossler
Director
hossler@indiana.edu
(812) 856-2076

Mary Ziskin
Senior Associate Director
mziskin@indiana.edu
(812) 856-1506
 
Project on Academic Success
1900 E. Tenth Street
Eigenmann Hall, Suite 630
Bloomington, IN 47406-7512

The Project on Academic Success (PAS) engages in practice- and policy-oriented research on student academic success, with particular emphasis on factors that influence persistence in and access to higher education.

PAS is a part of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and receives technical assistance in survey administration from the Indiana University Center for Survey Research.

Current PAS research projects are the College Board Pilot Study on Student Retention and the Indiana Project on Academic Success (IPAS).


New Release!

What Matters to Student Loan Default

A Review of the Literature

Executive Summary Full Report

This policy brief examines research conducted between 1978 and 2007 on the predictors of student loan default, focusing on empirical studies that employed multivariate statistical techniques optimizing control for complicating factors.