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Graduate Student Research Workshops (2025-2026

The Center for Student Success Research sponsors a monthly workshop for graduate students to share, present their work, and collaborate with one another.

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Introduction To Propensity Score Matching Using Educational Data

This one and a half hour workshop will introduce you to propensity score matching, a quasi-experimental method for improving estimates of causal effects using observational data.

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Stigmatizing An Institutional Space: How Black Colleges Became A Problem

A quarter of black Americans earn college degrees from black colleges. Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, Jesse Jackson, and Spike Lee are but a few of the influential Americans that have graduated from black colleges. Yet, and still, questions about the necessity of black colleges abound.

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Tips And Tricks On Writing Literature Reviews

Learn more and view the handout of the workshop and the questions and answers that were discussed.

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Robert Feldman Lecture: Engaging A New  Generation Of Undergraduates

What does research tell us about the characteristics of today's undergraduates? And do our current students differ from students of prior generations? In his talk, Robert Feldman talks about who our students are, and what are the kinds of teaching strategies that best engage this newest generation of undergraduates.

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