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Scholarships

​Read more about the people and projects that demonstrate NORC's expertise in Scholarships.

Representative Projects

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1997. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, is the youth-focused component of the National Longitudinal Survey Program used to gather information on the labor market experiences of American men and women.  More

Success Study of the Horatio Alger Association Scholarship Program. The Horatio Alger Association (HAA) Scholarship program is a national effort that awards financial scholarships and provides mentoring to at-risk students who have experienced different types of adversity while still demonstrating strong academic potential.  NORC is currently conducting Phase 1 of the Success Study of the HAA Scholarship Program to understand the factors associated with students’ abilities to overcome adversity. More

Survey of Doctorate Recipients. NORC conducts the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The SDR is a survey of 40,000 science and engineering doctorate recipients who earned their degrees from institutions within the United States.  More

Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED). The Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) is a federal agency survey conducted by NORC for the National Science Foundation and five other federal agencies (National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). More

Headlines

News The Chronicle of Higher Education: Age, health, and bachelor's degrees with data and findings from NLSY79 More
Posted: 2.28.2012 4:33PM
News Education Week: How education affects views on affirmative action, with input from the GSS More
Posted: 2.23.2012 4:48PM
News MSN Careers: "America at age 24: An education and employment snapshot" featuring data from NLSY More
Posted: 2.13.2012 3:38PM
News Yahoo! News: Horatio Alger Association survey to expand with new topics, samples, and partners More
Posted: 11.30.2011 11:51AM