This chapter captures the mission and spirit of the California State University in its efforts to institutionalize undergraduate research and support the success of students traditionally underrepresented in higher education.

This chapter describes a framework to guide collaboration between institutional research and other campus offices. Three examples are then provided to illustrate how the framework was applied successfully to actual projects.

Higher education can be a key leader in sustainability efforts, with issues cutting across all areas of functioning and extending into the community. This article examines educational change, which is particularly important because of its far-reaching effects. In particular, this article describes student-led sustainability research at the…

The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to the work of OECD in the field of education through its recent projects and reports. It makes no pretence to be exhaustive. It relies heavily on published results of international reviews and comparisons where relatively clear messages have been identified, rather than single country…

This chapter shows how institutional researchers can make use of geographic information systems (GIS) to improve the quality of their surveys and extract more information from their results. GIS can contribute to at least three stages of the survey process: (1) survey design (through a better understanding of the population being surveyed); (2)…

A national project in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) to facilitate and coordinate institutional research efforts and the research activities at individual universities is described. A proposal for a comprehensive research project on higher education in RSA is included. One project at the University of the Orange Free State (UOFS) is designed…

School counselors need to know which methods work best with their students. One means of determining this is presented. Limitations exist in the generalizability of findings. A major feature of intensive experimental designs is that large numbers of students are not needed to conduct meaningful evaluation of an intervention. (Author/BEF)

Issues concerning research partnerships between universities and industry are reviewed. Attention is directed to: the genesis of partnerships, a typology of linkages, salient incentives for academe and commerce, currently perceived barriers, qualitative assessment of linkages, and recommendations for the improvement of partnerships. Linkages fall…

The Sports Institute for Research Through Change Agent Research (SIR/CAR) is an interdisciplinary, public professional, study/action group, which brings together theoreticians and practitioners to investigate topics of vital interest to sport or athletic organizations functioning at the community, provincial/state, national, or international…

In order to ease the academic and social transition, to forge a solid foundation for the rest of the academic career, and to increase the likelihood that students will persist through the second year and beyond, curricula and cocurricular programs are designed to meet the needs of first-year students and facilitate learning and development.…

Abstracts of 34 research projects conducted in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) are presented. A roster summarizing the projects by external researchers is also included. The roster shows, for each project, the project number, title, director, sponsor, schools where research was conducted, and whether a full report is on file.…

A study was undertaken to examine and strengthen the examination system at Hampshire College. During the study the college was in its third and fourth years of operation. The system, known as progress by examination, is comprised of six diagnostic and evaluative meetings between students and their faculty to determine their eventual satisfactory…

A sampling is presented of items from the 1979-80 survey of research and publications in and about the University of Minnesota General College. This includes these discipline areas and sample research projects: recent General College-based doctoral dissertations (title and authors); counseling and student development research reports, 1979-1980;…

Information on research activity at Arizona's three universities (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University) is presented as one of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. For both faculty and students, the presence of…

A description is presented of the "Qualitative Analysis of the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) Teacher Education Program" (QAULTEP). The overall objective of QAULTEP is to develop a model for the evaluation of teacher education programs and specifically to identify: (1) categories of pre-education variables that will best predict…