HERI will have seven presentations this year at AERA, New Orleans. In addition, there will be ten presentations from researchers who were granted access to CIRP data through our data access proposal process. In total, five of the presentations will …
HERI researchers Alexander Astin, Helen Astin, and Jennifer Lindholm have just released their latest book: “Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students’ Inner Lives.” This study followed students who completed the CIRP Freshman Survey (along with a special section …
Recently Jessica Sharkness, a graduate student researcher here at HERI, and I wondered if students who attended their first-choice college were more likely to be satisfied with their first-year of college. If you’ve been around a high-school senior when admissions …
College student voting behavior, as seen in the 2008 national election, is the topic of the latest HERI Brief Report . Although well-known that four-year college students vote at a higher rate than youth in general in the United States, …
HERI will have six presentations this year at AERA. In addition, four researchers who were granted access to CIRP data through our data access proposal process will have presentations related to the data they received from CIRP. In total, three …
Just what factors do first-generation students consider when making a choice about what college they are going to attend, and do they make their choices differently than their non-first-generation peers? Recently, just such a question popped into my email inbox. …
HERI provides custom reports and data tables on a fee for service basis in addition to the monographs, reports, research briefs and PowerPoint presentations that we produce based on our survey data. Participating institutions, non-participating institutions, and other researchers can …
We are pleased to announce that Academe (September-October 2009), a premier magazine in the field of higher education, has published Keeping Senior Women at Your College, an article that explores factors that prompt senior female faculty to consider leaving their …
It’s ranking season, and with it comes the annual discussion about what these rankings actually mean and how important they are in the scheme of things. While controversies abound as to whether or not institutions try to orchestrate their rankings, …
Our May HERI Brown Bag Research Talk featured HERI Faculty Affiliate Linda Sax presenting a summary of her study Women Graduates of Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools: Differences in their Characteristics and the Transition to College. We are pleased to …