HERI will have seven presentations this year at AERA, New Orleans. In addition, there will be ten presentations from researchers who were granted access to CIRP data through our data access proposal process. In total, five of the presentations will …
It’s college letter acceptance time! With the CIRP 2010 Freshman Survey, we can better understand how students experience the admissions process, including how many college applications they sent, how many got into their first choice school, and why they applied …
On March 6, 2011, writer Sara Lipka of The Chronicle of Higher Education explored what colleges are doing to accommodate and support LGBT students on campus. In doing so, she discussed the importance of gauging students’ feelings about campus climate …
The following is taken from my statement to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity on February 3, 2010. About a dozen years ago I was appointed to a committee to write sections of …
Accreditation is one of the main drivers of survey use on college campuses. Because CIRP surveys are comprehensive, they cover a wide variety of outcomes related to student growth and development. Results from CIRP surveys can be used in many …
The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) recently recognized three members of HERI with awards. HERI Director Sylvia Hurtado received the 2010 ASHE Leadership Award. In the introduction to that award, Sylvia was recognized as a “leader that …
Eric Gorski of the Associated Press recently wrote an article looking at the quantity and quality of the college applications that are being asked for by colleges and are being submitted by students. He uses previously published CIRP Freshman Survey …
HERI researchers Alexander Astin, Helen Astin, and Jennifer Lindholm have just released their latest book: “Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students’ Inner Lives.” This study followed students who completed the CIRP Freshman Survey (along with a special section …
Recently Jessica Sharkness, a graduate student researcher here at HERI, and I wondered if students who attended their first-choice college were more likely to be satisfied with their first-year of college. If you’ve been around a high-school senior when admissions …
College student voting behavior, as seen in the 2008 national election, is the topic of the latest HERI Brief Report . Although well-known that four-year college students vote at a higher rate than youth in general in the United States, …