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 Releases!

Developing the Big Picture: How Postsecondary Institutions Support Student Persistence

Lessons learned for campus administrators and policy makers on what they can do to support student persistence at their institutions. Recommendations stem from major research projects based in Indiana and nationally that seek to understand how institutions organize themselves to promote retention. Presented at the Strategies for Success conference sponsored by the College Board and the University of Texas at Austin, January 9, 2009

Characteristics and Destinations of Students Who Transfer Across Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities (Second Report).

This second report on student transfer in Indiana focuses on first-time, first-year students at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana (ITCCI) from fall 2000 through 2005–2006 to see which students transferred and which institutions they transferred to, with particular interest in transfer from the community college to a baccalaureate-degree-granting institution.

Promoting or Perturbing Access: An Event History Analysis of the Effects of Financial Aid on Latinos' Educational Attainment
(Slides from the presentation at the 2008 Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research in Seattle)

Using event history analysis this study explores the effects of financial aid on Latino students' academic success from 1999-2006, measured here as likelihood of first departure. Much of the prior research on patterns of Latino students' receipt of aid has relied on cross-sectional data. This study further contributes to understandings of relationships among race/ethnicity, income, institutional sector financial aid, and academic success. Data come from a statewide student unit record system and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.