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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Many institutions are in the throes of orientation right now, and to us, that means administering the CIRP Freshman Survey (TFS). For many of you, the real work of understanding what the results mean, of identifying actions that might be …
This question has come up recently from several people who would like to use one or more of the CIRP surveys as part of their overal institutional assessment strategy, but have run up against resistance from some corner of their …