Over a 10-year period, researchers at the Center for Studies in Higher Education in the Goldman School of Public Policy designed the Multi-Engagement Model — a new system to analyze student success at U.S. research universities. Collecting 806,000 survey responses from 22 different public universities, campus researchers Igor Chirikov, John Aubrey Douglass and Gregg Thomson analyzed data from between 2012 and 2023. Under their model of engagement, they found over two-thirds of undergraduates are highly engaged in at least one of its five distinct groups: academic, extracurricular, civic, research and career activities. Among seniors, it found the percentage to be 85%. The study reported that engagement varied with gender, socioeconomic background and discipline. It found that female students tended to be more active in civic, career activities and research fields. Low-income students showed higher engagement in civic and career activities, while students from upper-class families dis...