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 …
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the CIRP Freshman Survey findings tend to be very aligned with national topics of conversation and debate. Sure, we think about which data will most newsworthy when we sift through our mountain of …
The articles have started to come in on the CIRP Freshman Survey results, and as usual everyone takes a slightly different look. Here are a few of the stories. The New York Times story led with connection between finances and …
HERI will once again run three summer institutes in 2012, and all are now open for registration. Our annual CIRP Summer Institute is a great way to extend your understanding of the conceptual framework of the CIRP surveys and augment …
We recently blogged about our new Your First College Year Survey (YFCY) infographic. Now we are putting a spotlight on another new infographic for our Diverse Learning Environments Survey, which we hope will spark conversations about how institutions can promote …