Transition Programs

The area of my research that has been the most productive has been the research around student transition programs. I was responsible for and the chief architect of the original research for the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition from 2012-2021. In this capacity, I constructed, coordinated, and carried out five national surveys on student transition programs. This includes the National Survey of First-Year Seminars (2012-13), National Survey of Sophomore-Year Initiatives (2014, 2019), National Survey of Senior Capstone Experiences (2016), and the newly developed National Survey on The First-Year Experience (2017). I have presented widely on the results of these surveys at local, regional, national, and international meetings. Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, this has been the area in which most of my collaborations with other scholars have taken place.