Continuing education centers mainly organize activities for the society in the fields that have gained importance on the improvement of individuals with a view of career building, improving professional knowledge and skills, achieving new skills and supplying individual development needs. Such centers have been established within universities…

This qualitative study represents perceptions of students regarding campus environment and campus life at University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFV), a public four-year university-college located in British Columbia, Canada. Employing a unique methodology, referred to as reflexive photography, student participants were asked to photograph and…

Recent decades have witnessed a remarkable rise in the regulation of public services and servants, education being a case in point. External evaluation and inspection has been an important element of this trend. Increasingly, however as the limitations of external surveillance systems have become clear the concept of internal or self-evaluation…

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is a UK-wide organisation that works with higher education institutions and 24 discipline-based Subject Centres to improve the student learning experience. This paper outlines the work of one of its initiatives, the HEA ESD Project. While a small part of the Academy's overall work, the Project is attracting…

This study examined chief student affairs officer (CSAO) titles at 2,621 4-year public and private institutions and 2-year institutions included in the 2006 Higher Education Directory. This study replicated and extended Rickard's (1985a) study of CSAO titles, with regard to institutional autonomy and professional standardization and provides a…

Respite is one of the critical support systems for families and carers who support and care for a person with a life-long disability. This study examined the profile of respite services in the Australian state of New South Wales and explored respite providers' views of the factors influencing respite use, and their expectations of respite…

THE AUTHOR DEFINES INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AS A METHODICAL STUDY OF PROBLEMS, AND AN ATTEMPT TO IMPLEMENT SOLUTIONS AND UTILIZE THE RESULTS OF A STUDY. HE STATES THAT--(1) A RE-EVALUATION OF CONCEPTS, ASSUMPTIONS AND STRATEGIES OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH IS NECESSARY, (2) INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHERS SHOULD NOT ONLY FIND ANSWERS BUT ALSO CRITICIZE…

This compendium lists and describes 61 ongoing or recently completed studies and programs dealing with college and university governance. Items are listed alphabetically by title and include beginning and expected dates of completion, principal investigator, source of availability and source of funding. An introductory essay discusses trends in…

This accreditation survey of Casper College reports: (1) history of the college, (2) institutional philosophy, (3) financial resources, (4) administration and organization, (5) faculty resources, (6) curriculum, (7) library resources, (8) student personnel practices, (9) characteristics of the college's students, (10) community services, (11)…

In 1967 representatives from 3 colleges in South Alabama (Alabama State College, Montgomery; Livingston State College, Livingston; and Troy State College, Troy) met and organized a consortium to stimulate research on the campuses of the institutions. A grant was issued to the consortium to facilitate the goal of stimulating research. The…

This review notes two major trends characterizing institutional research in community colleges today: (1) the communication of research results, and (2) the shift toward applied rather than theoretical research. A third trend noted is the desire by certain persons to create an institutional position of "Information Dean," who would provide needed…

This paper presents the results of a study that investigated challenges institutional researchers encounter in their careers, resources for coping with these challenges, and the impact of the challenges on engagement in policy. Data were from a mailed survey sent to 304 institutional researchers in the northeastern United States to which 221…