Dec 6 – Dec 7, 2009 Spirituality in Higher Education: A Research Symposium An invitation-only research symposium will be hosted by the Spirituality in Higher Education Project on Sunday, December 6th and Monday, December 7th, at UCLA’s Faculty Center. The …
We are pleased to announce that we have released our new survey reporting format. These enhancements have come as a result of a year-long project that had the intent of creating more useful reports for the colleges and universities using …
It’s ranking season, and with it comes the annual discussion about what these rankings actually mean and how important they are in the scheme of things. While controversies abound as to whether or not institutions try to orchestrate their rankings, …
We’ve recently bundled a number of documents that are useful when using CIRP Surveys. This includes copies of the most recent survey instruments, the administrative guidelines, examples of the PowerPoint summaries you can order, and some research reports. You can …
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum is one of our favorite conferences of the year! HERI will be out in force, with many of the HERI faculty, staff, and graduate students attending and presenting. There are 10 HERI-affiliated sessions, …
The CIRP Summer Institute enhances your ability to use CIRP data for assessment, campus decision-making, or for your own research. Newly designed for 2009, participants in this year’s CSI will learn the conceptual framework of the three CIRP student surveys, …
We are very pleased to announce that Laura Palucki Blake will be joining the Higher Education Research Institute as the new Assistant Director in the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. Laura is currently the Director of Assessment at Agnes Scott College, …
A recent article in USA Today combined results from several studies, pointing out that first-year students who drink alcohol, on average, spend more time doing so than actually studying. The main source of this information is from over 30,000 students …
We’ve launched the first in an ongoing series of regular webcasts. This first webcast presents findings from the 2008 CIRP Freshman Survey, based on the responses of over 240,000 incoming first-year students at 340 colleges and universities across the United …