Introducing NSSE’s Student Success Framework Mapping 

Jillian Kinzie, Alethia Russell, Christen Priddie, Jayla Langford, and Cheyenne Smith
January 10, 2025

Over the last dozen years, “student success” has come to designate something more than just ensuring students’ complete their degree (Kinzie & Kuh, 2017). Rather, driven by an intensified focus on equitable increases in outcomes and educational value, student success involves ensuring students feel a sense of belonging and experience an integration of academic and student affairs support for their personal and academic progress and to build skills for the workplace and beyond.

Seniors’ Plans for Unconventional Careers: What is the Influence of Gender Identity, Major, and Confidence?

Angie Miller
October 15, 2024

Entrepreneurship Education recently published an article exploring how gender identity and major field were able to predict confidence in creative thinking and entrepreneurial skills, as well as students plans for self-employment and starting a business. Authored by NSSE research scientist Angie Miller and Mondragon University postdoctoral researcher Paula Alvarez Huerta, this paper used data from the Senior Transitions NSSE Topical Module. 

New Role Boosts Institutional Support: Introducing the Campus Liaison

Ella Chamis
October 1, 2024

This summer, NSSE created a new position – the Campus Liaison – to support NSSE’s participating institutions. The Campus Liaison is responsible for providing excellent customer service to NSSE institutions.

It's midsemester: Time to check in on students' mental health and wellness.

James Cole
September 20, 2024

As the country emerges from the COVID pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that another “pandemic” has arisen. Though college students' mental health and wellness has been a concern for many years, it has recently emerged as a widespread problem that can seriously impact academic success.

Applying Pluralistic Ignorance to Student Engagement: One Item Set, Two Studies

Angie Miller
February 23, 2024

Pluralistic ignorance generally refers to “erroneous cognitive beliefs shared by two or more individuals about the ideas, feelings, and actions of others” (O’Gorman, 1986, p. 333). This is a classic construct in social psychology, generally known as a means of exploring negative or risky behaviors of college student populations like drug and alcohol use (Suls & Green, 2003) or sexual behaviors (Kuperberg & Padgett, 2017). But how might it relate to a more modern and positive college student experience? 

NSSE Accreditation Toolkit Updates: Considerations for Equity & Educational Quality

Jillian Kinzie, Kriti Gopal, and Bridgette Holmes
November 17, 2023

Accreditation’s dual purpose - upholding standards for educational quality and expectations for continuous improvement in colleges and university - aligns with NSSE goals. As such, many NSSE participating institutions indicate that accrediting agencies are the primary external audience with whom they share their NSSE results. Student engagement results are vital measures of educational quality and can be a stimulus for and evidence of institutional improvement initiatives.  

The NSSE Report Builder Customizes Your Engagement Results

Bob Gonyea
October 17, 2023

NSSE has updated its popular Report Builder tool with data from the most recent administration. The Report Builder currently includes data going back to 2009, including data from all U.S. and Canadian participating institutions. 

It's Midsemester. Time to check in on students' mental health and wellness.

James Cole
October 12, 2023

As the country emerges from the COVID pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that another “pandemic” has arisen. Though college students' mental health and wellness has been a concern for many years, it has recently emerged as a widespread problem that can seriously impact academic success.

NSSE Announces New Director Dr. Leonard Taylor

Jillian Kinzie and Cindy Ann Kilgo
May 12, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Leonard Taylor will assume the NSSE Director role starting July 1, 2023. The announcement from Indiana University’s School of Education highlights Leonard’s scholarly accomplishments and enthusiasm to begin the role.

Using Effect Coding to Study Minoritized Populations

Steven Feldman
April 28, 2023

Effect coding allows researchers to compare groups of data to the average (mean) of the sample, as opposed to another group of data (Mayhew & Simonoff, 2015). This contrasts with indicator (dummy) coding, which uses a single group as a reference group. This is particularly useful when comparing groups of participants, separated by identity.