…d had the amazing chance to meet him in person during one of the Graduate Student sessions at AERA. I informed Dr. Tierney about my interest in seeing what research that the for-profit sector was doing on student success and he encouraged me to contact the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (now SECU I believe). With nothing to lose, I called their Research Office and their director convinced their leadership to bring me on to help with some projects they wanted to investigate. Finally, something was going right for me that year, which was good because there were many changes…