Peter Collier

Projects: 1) "Students First: Improving First Generation Student Retention in Higher Education," a four-year intervention project, funded by the Department of Education’s FIPSE program, to improve low-income, first generation student performance and persistence 2) "Improving First-Generation, Low-Income Student Retention in Higher Education: Examining the Persistence of Role-Mastery based Advising and Telementoring Intervention Effects," a two-year qualitative follow-up study of a cohort of students from the Students First Program to determine if positive  program effects persist beyond the students' participation year, funded by NACADA (National Academic Advising Association). 3) Consultant on the Lumina Foundation-funded Urban Transfer Resource Network project, a multi state, multi-site study that is examining how community college and university transfer policies impact the likelihood of transfer student success at the university and Bachelor's degree completion. 4) Collaborating with University Studies faculty to integrate specific elements from the Students First project into PSU’s first year general education experience -- Freshmen Inquiry – with the goal of improving performance and persistence for all freshmen. 5) Collaborating on a project to convert the present Students First program into an interactive, web-based format that promotes  self-directed learning  while continuing to support first  generation students. 6)  Exploration of student adjustment issues associated with undergraduate-graduate school transition