Prior research points to the first year of college as a critical time in selecting a college major. Considering the number of studies focusing on the STEM gender gap, surprisingly little research has examined gender differences and the influence of the first college year on the STEM major selection. Using data from the Wabash National Study of…

Following insights gleaned from a previous study the authors conducted, and to encourage greater transparency in the quantitative research design of higher education studies, the authors tested which institution-level variables found within the activism literature can be retained when modeling student activism behavior at multiple levels (Morgan,…