Here at CIRP we are always thinking about ways to help you engage your campus in discussions of your survey results. We are happy to announce that starting with the 2013 Your First College Year (YFCY) survey, our institutional reporting …
Student participation is critical to the success of your survey administration. Simply put, the more respondents you have, the more confidence you have that your results accurately represent your student body. Many institutions struggle with the challenges associated with obtaining …
Debra Humphreys, in her article “Success After College: What Students, Parents, and Educators Need to Know and Do” in the Spring 2013 Issue of Liberal Education cites the CIRP Freshman Survey finding that more than ever, students are pursuing a …
I was happy to see so much attention in the twitterverse regarding the 2012 Freshman Survey–in particular the finding that more than ever before, students are going to college to get good jobs and make more money. One of the …
With the release of The American Freshman: National Norms, Fall 2012, we know many of you will be thinking about how to put both the national findings and your own institutional results to good use on campus. Here’s how a …
A couple of weeks ago I received a phone call from an Assistant Vice President of Enrollment Management and Dean of Student Affairs at a local college. The school is a long-time user of the CIRP Freshman Survey, and she …
I’m preparing to head out to several assessment and accreditation conferences this fall, and as I peruse the preliminary programs online, and I’ve noticed an increasing reluctance toward using survey data in assessment. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not …
Many institutions are in the throes of orientation right now, and to us, that means administering the CIRP Freshman Survey (TFS). For many of you, the real work of understanding what the results mean, of identifying actions that might be …
At CIRP, we update our surveys annually to ensure they reflect current issues and priorities in higher education. Every summer we sit down as a group and think together about the updates and changes that will best help our users …
With summer in full swing on most campuses, many of you are taking this opportunity to clean out your office, to work on that research idea you can’t quite get to during the academic year, or perhaps just taking some …