One hundred years have passed since the founding of the Bureau of Institutional Research at the University of Illinois. If the UI bureau and University of Minnesota bureau are the origins of institutional research, the California higher education system demonstrated its power and relevance to statewide planning. While the politicalContinue Reading
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
Did you know that the “father” of sports psychology was also the first notable director of an institutional research office responsible for student success initiatives at a US college or university? In 1938, Coleman R. Griffith provided a firsthand account for his efforts to develop the Bureau of Institutional ResearchContinue Reading
Institutional researchers oversee a bounty of information stored in student information systems and enterprise resource planning systems of colleges universities. Yet, there is little guidance to enable IR practitioners to collectively organize their respective institutions into a large array for the systematic measurement of student success and “what works” inContinue Reading
