Fall 2009
Cooperative Institutional Research
Program
Report Summary
Please
access the link below to view UM’s Fall
2009 Cooperative Institutional Research Program
Report Summary (CIRP)
Fall
2009 Cooperative Institutional Research Program
Report Summary
The following information is taken from the
Higher Education Research Institute's website:
The Cooperative Institutional Research
Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey is administered
by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
at UCLA. Informing colleges and universities
since 1966, the CIRP Freshman Survey has
collected data on over 13 million students at
over 1,900 institutions, and is the largest
American study of higher education. The CIRP
Freshman Survey is designed to provide
comprehensive information on your incoming
first-year students. It can be used by itself,
or, when used in conjunction with the Your First
College Year Survey (YFCY) and the College
Senior Survey (CSS), provides valuable baseline
data for a longitudinal assessment. The CIRP
Freshman Survey is used by researchers and
practitioners to examine readiness for college,
how students choose colleges, student values and
beliefs about diversity and civic engagement,
and student expectations.
Participating
institutions receive a detailed profile of their
entering freshman class, as well as national
normative data for students in similar types of
institutions. These campus profile reports,
together with the national normative profile,
provide important data that can be useful in a
variety of program and policy areas:
- Admissions and
recruitment
- Academic program
development, review and self-assessment
- Institutional
self-study and accreditation activities
- Public relations
and advancement/development
- Institutional
research and assessment
- Retention studies
- Longitudinal
research about the impact of policies and
programs
Although the
normative data provided with the institutional
reports (and published annually in The American
Freshman) are based on the population of
first-time, full-time freshmen, participating
institutions also receive separate reports for
their part-time and transfer students.
Additionally, participating campuses can obtain
supplemental reports profiling students by
various subgroups (for example, by intended
major or career, by academic ability, by home
state).
If you would like more information on the
Cooperative Institutional Research Program,
please visit
http://www.heri.ucla.edu/herisurveys.php.
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