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 …
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 …
As college comes to a close for this year’s seniors, what final words will inspire students? Most commencement speeches try to empower students to do great things, leave their mark on the world, achieve their dreams, etc. But, are we …
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 …
HERI Director Sylvia Hurtado and CIRP Assistant Director for Research Linda DeAngelo have a new article in AAC&U’s “Liberal Education” journal that presents national evidence of the positive impact of diversity and civic-related practices from the CIRP student surveys and …
This piece originally appeared in the April Newsletter for the New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability. It’s a wonderful organization and resource for those of us committed to the assessment of student learning, and worth checking out. I’ve …
AERA (April 13 to 17) time is here again. We will have 17 presentations this year at the conference that use CIRP data or are HERI sponsored studies. Of these presentations, half are studies that are HERI sponsored and half …
I had been hearing a lot about Pinterest over the last year (mostly from friends and colleagues whom I’d describe as creative, visually-minded, even artsy), and was admittedly skeptical about the versatility of this new social media tool. Allowing users …
I’ve just returned from co-leading a workshop for the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) with Jillian Kinzie. Ten schools had put together teams composed of an institutional researcher, a faculty member or faculty development person and someone from academic …
In preparation for the First Year Experience conference this weekend I have been taking a closer look at the findings from the 2012 administration of the Your First College Year (YFCY) survey. We’ve just put out one of our brief …