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Special Populations: Students

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

Representative Projects

Education and Transition to Adulthood. This project’s key research question is ‘How does schooling, and specifically individuals’ experiences in postsecondary education, influence health trajectories and early adult labor force and family formation?’ More

NIJ Dating Violence Experiment in NYC I with PERF.

For this project, on which NORC is a subcontractor to the Police Executive Research Forum, the research team randomly assigned 30 New York City middle schools (two 6th and two 7th grade classrooms in each, with a final total of 117 participating classrooms) to one of four conditions: (1) a classroom‐based intervention, (2) a building intervention, (3) both classroom and building interventions, or (4) a no‐treatment control group. The classroom curriculum included six sessions emphasizing the consequences for perpetrators of dating violence/harassment (DV/H); state and federal laws for DV/H; the setting and communicating of boundaries in relationships; and the role of bystanders as interveners.​ More

NSC Postsecondary Persistence Indicator Project-PPIP. NORC is performing sampling, weighting, and variance estimation for the National Student Clearinghouse's Postsecondary Persistence Indicator Project (PPIP), supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 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

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Headlines

News Forbes: What NORC's Greg Wolniak and The Success Study of the Horatio Alger Association are doing to make a difference More
Posted: 5.3.2013 2:28PM
News The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The ripple effects of student loan debt, with Survey of Consumer Finances data More
Posted: 10.1.2012 12:51PM
News The Associated Press & Fox News: The Survey of Consumer Finances helps look at the high amount of student debt More
Posted: 9.27.2012 4:51PM
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