Alabama's Public Liberal Arts University

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.