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 …
We’ve been thinking a lot about the YFCY lately, and how we can help schools best communicate their results. Because the first year of college is such a big deal as it relates to retention, campus climate and overall students’ …
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 …
The CIRP freshman survey gives us a lot of insight into students’ political beliefs and orientation. So, naturally, we were interested to see how recent CIRP data aligned with the student vote in this year’s election. We know that over …
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 …
For years we’ve been telling stories about our data. But over the last year, we’ve been letting our data tell stories. We now have infographics for three of our five surveys: Your First College Year and Diverse Learning Environments surveys, …
We do a lot of reporting on student trends and data, so when the opportunity arises every three years to talk about faculty and their campus experience, we are excited to do so. The 2010-2011 HERI Faculty report, which we …
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 …
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 …