May 31- June 4, 2011 San Francisco, CA
Are institutions doing everything they can to ensure a supportive environment for all of their students? Colleges and universities strive for the same goal–to provide a safe and welcoming environment for their students that allows them to achieve their potential. …
Over the past week, I was at back-to-back annual conferences for regional accrediting bodies. Even for someone who truly enjoys talking about assessing student learning and how to best provide evidence that your institution is meeting the institutional goals it …
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 …
It’s college letter acceptance time! With the CIRP 2010 Freshman Survey, we can better understand how students experience the admissions process, including how many college applications they sent, how many got into their first choice school, and why they applied …
On March 6, 2011, writer Sara Lipka of The Chronicle of Higher Education explored what colleges are doing to accommodate and support LGBT students on campus. In doing so, she discussed the importance of gauging students’ feelings about campus climate …
The following is taken from my statement to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity on February 3, 2010. About a dozen years ago I was appointed to a committee to write sections of …
Check out our new 2010 CIRP freshman survey (released today!) and see what first-year college students are saying about their emotional health, expectations for college, the current economic situation, gay rights and much more. We were especially struck by the …