This morning on NPR I heard a story on the impact of being asked to categorize ones racial/ethnic background on questionnaires or other queries, such as medical forms. This eight-minute piece reminded me again that a questionnaire is not a …
We’ve updated the YFCY infographic to reflect results from the 2012 Your First College Year Survey. There are new versions of both the standard version and the customizable one that you can edit to include your own college’s findings. While we were tinkering …
Like the rest of the nation was, we at HERI were shocked and greatly saddened by the senseless violence in Newtown. Since we are in the business of uncovering and promoting what those of us in higher education believe, I …
It’s that time of year again when we start looking at the CIRP Freshman Survey results. Last year I described the process by which we determine what to write about in the monograph. This year I am going to give …
We released our first infographic almost a year ago, featuring the Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey. Our most recent we released a few weeks ago, based upon date from the HERI Faculty Survey. This week, we kick it up …
A collection of white papers that examine issues involved in effectively measuring college success was released today. This project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , called Context for Success, included a paper by myself and HERI Director …
I’ve just recently been working with a school in interpreting CIRP Freshman Survey data, but this time with a slightly different eye, as my son is one of the new first-year students who took the survey, and I have a …
This question has come up recently from several people who would like to use one or more of the CIRP surveys as part of their overal institutional assessment strategy, but have run up against resistance from some corner of their …
We are in the middle of the CIRP Summer Institute, and as usual have a great group of diverse people united by their common bond of wanting to be able to use CIRP data to the fullest. The CIRP Summer …
This weekend will see a number of us here at HERI flying to New Orleans for the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Annual Forum. As usual, there are many presentations at AIR that will feature CIRP data. Some of these …