** Please note, a known WIFI potential issue with our REDCap survey**

If you are accessing the survey on campus and are using PSU’s private WIFI network (i.e., log on with your PSU email and password) you *may* have issues accessing the survey. If you do, try switching to the Guest AT&T WIFI and clicking the survey link in your email again. This is a known REDCap issue that they are working on. Your survey is still secure!!

Penn State CORE Survey 2025

To Understand YOUR Penn State Experience

Be a part of this new movement to share your experiences.
Your voice is important.

Penn State CORE Survey 2025

To Understand YOUR Penn State Experience

Be a part of this new movement to share your experiences.

Your voice is important.

About CORE (COllege Relationships and Experiences)

Penn State CORE is a survey study of the experiences of Penn State undergraduate students across the Commonwealth. If you sign up, you will receive one survey a year for up to 4 years (your time at Penn State and one year beyond, or for the length of the study- whichever comes first). This allows us to get a snapshot within each year, as well as across a cohorts’ time at Penn State.

The study will give voice to all students as they share about their life at Penn State, inform ways that Penn State can enhance their experiences, and serve as a gateway for students to elect to be contacted about future research studies at Penn State.

By collecting data from thousands of Penn State students, we will gain insight into college life today. We want to know what activities you’re involved in, how connected you feel at Penn State, and whether you have used University health services. We want to know something about how you spend your time. We also want to learn whether you have experienced challenges such as stress or discrimination while at Penn State.

This project, funded by the Social Science Research Institute and the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences and the College of Health and Human Development, is being conducted in partnership with Penn State Student Affairs.

Represent

If $10 and a chance to win an extra $100 isn’t enough to make you want to participate, consider this. Your participation means that you are representing yourself, as an individual. We want to recognize the diversity of student experiences at Penn State and break down stereotypes of college students and their college experiences. Also, your information will help us figure out how Penn State can make your experience even better.

Represent

If $10 and a chance to win an extra $100 isn’t enough to make you want to participate, consider this. Your participation means that you are representing yourself, as an individual. We want to recognize the diversity of student experiences at Penn State and break down stereotypes of college students and their college experiences. Also, your information will help us figure out how Penn State can make your experience even better.

Frequently Asked Questions

You may have trouble accessing the survey if you are on campus connected to the PSU Wifi (PSU’s private network, where you have to log in with your user ID and password). Try switching to the PSU Guest network (AT&T) and click the link from your email again. This is a known REDcap issue and they are working on it. Your survey is still secure.

This survey takes up to 25 min. As part of the ongoing CORE study, you will be contacted once a year for up to the next 4 years depending on when you enroll in the study. You’ll have the opportunity to take one survey a year for the next 4 years if you want to.

Once you are finished and submit your survey, please give us 7-10 business days to get everything submitted. You’ll receive your Amazon e-gift card electronically via your Penn State email/account, or if you are no longer at Penn State, we’ll send the gift card to the non-PSU email you provided.

We draw one of the $100 gift cards for every 100 people that take the survey, you should find out within 10 business days after you submit your survey if your email was drawn. (It will be an Amazon e-gift card, and it will be separate from your initial $10 gift card).

Up to 8000 undergraduate students from Penn State (University Park as well as Commonwealth Universities) will be able to participate if eligible.

Yes! The top data security experts at Penn State have been consulted on the safe storage of your data. Further, any identifying information will be stripped from the data set, stored separately, and never shared.

Only the director and project manager of CORE would have the ability to link your data to your identity. This information will be stored in a very safe location and will never be shared.

We need to have your PSU email address so that we can send you your gift card! Each person can receive payment only once, and we verify this using your PSUID.

Research on college students is critically important. Although it is optional, we hope that you will elect to be contacted in the future about research studies that may be of interest to you. Participation means that your voice will be heard. Your data matter!

No, each student can only be represented once. Your PSUID (e.g., abc1234) is your ticket to participate.

Your participation can impact more than future student programming at Penn State. Participating in this research study will advance scientific knowledge about young adults today, and what factors in your lives may be linked to more positive experiences. This knowledge ultimately can inform the field of prevention science and fuel science-based programming to promote the well-being of young adults everywhere.

I’d Like To Participate

We are currently recruiting undergraduate students for our Spring 2025 survey! Be on the lookout for an email from ProjectCore@psu.edu.  Sign up below and we’ll make sure you’re in our recruitment waves!

** Please note, a known WIFI issue with our REDCap survey**- if you are accessing the survey on campus and are using PSU’s private WIFI network (i.e., log on with your PSU email and password) you *may* have issues accessing the survey.  If you do, try switching to the Guest AT&T WIFI and clicking the survey link in your email again.  This is a known REDCap issue that they are working on.  Your survey is still secure!!

Your voice is valued. YOU are an important part of the Penn State Community. Share your voice.