At CIRP, we update our surveys annually to ensure they reflect current issues and priorities in higher education. Every summer we sit down as a group and think together about the updates and changes that will best help our users …
With summer in full swing on most campuses, many of you are taking this opportunity to clean out your office, to work on that research idea you can’t quite get to during the academic year, or perhaps just taking some …
This weekend will see a number of us here at HERI flying to New Orleans for the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Annual Forum. As usual, there are many presentations at AIR that will feature CIRP data. Some of these …
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’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 …
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 …
As we prepare to release the findings of the 2011 CIRP Freshman Survey on January 26th, the wheels are already well in motion for each of our 2012 surveys. I thought it might be worth it to preview some upcoming …