The Post-Collegiate Life Project began in 1987 with a survey of three HWS graduating classes examining their post-collegiate life experience in terms of friendship and family transitions, careers and post-graduate education, and health and well-being. This research has subsequently become the longest running study of post-college life in higher education involving remarkable response rates from entire graduating classes. The Project has expanded over the years and currently includes nine graduating classes ranging from the Class of 1979 to the Class of 2006 with surveys launched in 1987, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2003, and 2007. Special topics of research in these data have included issues of stress and careers, gender roles and parenting, alcohol use and abuse, shifting life goals and values, experiences of forgiveness in the life course, and retrospective assessments of undergraduate academic preparation for careers and life experience in a global context.

New 2007-08 Post-Collegiate Life Survey Launched!

• Invitation Letter Mailed to the Classes of '79, '82, '85, '89, '93, '97, '01, '05 and '06

2003 Post-Collegiate Life Survey

• Announcement Letter to the Classes of '79, '82, '85, '89, '93, '97 and '01
• Report of graduate data responses for Middle States accreditation review

Previous Survey Reports

• Report from the 1999-2000 HWS Post-Collegiate Life Survey (Classes of '79, '82, '85, '89 and '93)
• Report from the 1996-1997 HWS Post-Collegiate Life Survey (Classes of '79, '82, '85, '89 and '93)
• Report from the 1991-1992 HWS Post-Collegiate Life Survey (Classes of '79, '82, '85 and '89)
• Report from the 1987-1988 HWS Post-Collegiate Life Survey (Classes of '79, '82 and '85)

Research Papers

• Available research papers from the HWS Post-Collegiate Life survey project

Citations in the Popular Press

• Self Magazine, "How to live a more meaningful life," by Nancy Hass, March, 2005.
• News Journal, Wilmington, DL, "Holiday's Theme is forgiveness," by George Soulsman, September 15, 2004.

News Releases

• Grant to Study Forgiveness

Pulteney Street Survey

• Article on "Married With Children"

Related Web Sites

• Alcohol Education Project
• H. Wesley Perkins Homepage