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 …
We are spending this week preparing for the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, which begins May 18 in our backyard of Long Beach. I wanted to highlight several of presentations at the annual forum that draw from …
The inaugural HERI Institute on Faculty Work/Life Issues is fast approaching (May 22-24), and I wanted to share some more information about the curriculum that Dr. Sylvia Hurtado and I have planned. We have designed the Institute to include a …
The 2013 AERA annual conference is upon us, and HERI is excited to announce that 20 papers at the conference will present findings from analyses of CIRP data. Nine of these studies are being presented by HERI staff members or …
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 …
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 …
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 …