The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article on the field of institutional research at a crossroads on August 31, 2017: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Higher-Ed-s-Data-Experts/241079. In this article, the Chronicle reprints a narrative created by the AIR leadership to advance what it calls its “new vision.” Unfortunately, in support of this narrative, theContinue Reading
One hundred years have passed since the founding of the Bureau of Institutional Research at the University of Illinois. If Coleman Griffith, director of the UI bureau, is the father of institutional research, Ruth E. Eckert is the mother of the profession. In 1954, the Bureau of Institutional Research atContinue Reading
International The precarious workforce: An ongoing threat to quality higher education | As full-time professors retire, universities are not replacing tenure-stream positions at the same rate; instead, more and more courses are being taught on a contract basis (remunerated per course) or through limited-term or sessional positions (where instructors teachContinue Reading
Now available on Amazon.com, Outsourcing Student Success, the first independent scholarship on the one hundred year history of institutional research in higher education. Colleges and universities have engaged in a bewildering succession of reform efforts to improve institutional performance and student success in higher education since the 1960s, with littleContinue Reading
International Venezuela’s universities feel the sting of economic and political crisis | Venezuela’s economic and political crisis has sparked food and medical shortages, the world’s highest inflation rate and allegations of a power grab by the ruling socialists. But it is also threatening the country’s future by ravaging higher education.Continue Reading
