The first institutional researchers took many of the necessary steps to establish standards for a community to study higher education “just as scientific investigation in the natural or social sciences.” Today, however, significant associations like the National Association of System Heads (NASH) and the American Council on Education (ACE) doContinue Reading
International Free higher education has created no crisis – ANCYL | Contrary to the doomsayers, doubters and beneficiaries of commodification of education who characterize access to free tertiary education as a cost, the ANCYL is resolute that this is a necessary investment which in a long term will contribute towardsContinue Reading
Almost fifty years of continuous institutional research at colleges and universities, as well as statewide, built a comprehensive portfolio of research and scholarship. Heading into the 1960s, institutional researchers and their like-minded colleagues among accreditors and other professional associations greatly extended the scope of activities for the study of higherContinue Reading
International How to unlock the potential of Canada’s skilled work force | The latest census release suggests that Canada should have a big competitive advantage in today’s information-driven global economy. That’s because 54 per cent of Canadians betwen the ages of 25 and 64 have college or university qualifications, aContinue Reading
Following advances for institutional research at the University of Illinois and University of Minnesota during the early twentieth century, interest in offices of institutional research picked up considerably in the 1950s. In particular, state boards demonstrated the power and relevance of institutional research for statewide planning by defining the extrinsicContinue Reading
