Retention and graduation have become major issues for the academy, as higher education finds itself under increasing scrutiny from governments, the media, consumers, and the courts. All are concerned with achieving greater diversity and access while controlling costs but not sacrificing quality - a seeming impossibility. This volume presents some ...
Student engagement in now part of the higher education lexicon in North America. This volume explains the value and relevance of the construct, with an emphasis on how results from the national Survey of Student Engagement have been used for various purposes. Because process indicators are often used as proxy measures for institutional quality, ...
New technologies have revolutionized survey research processes and how researchers and institutions of higher education college gain information from subjects. At the same time, it seems that increasing demands for accountability are forcing colleges and universities to conduct more high-quality surveys to gauge institutional effectiveness. In ...
In this volume, the editor and authors take a proactive, strategic stance by proposing a roadmap for the reinvention of institutional research. A decade ago, in volume 104 of "New Directions for Institutional Research", M. W. Peterson proposed that the future would challenge institutional research not only to help improve institutions but also to ...
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