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About
the CIRP
History
of the Freshman Survey
UCLA's
Higher Education Research Institute administers this annual survey
under the project title of the Cooperative Institutional Research
Program (CIRP), with support by the American Council on Education
(ACE). This variously named instrument (we call it the "Entering
First-Student Student Survey") is widely used; over 650 two and four year
schools in the United States administer this survey annually.
For more information on the Entering Freshman Survey, its history
and development, see the webpage at UCLA.
A
UNC-CH Tradition
The
Entering Freshman Survey has been in use at UNC-CH since 1967.
During Fall Orientation, the survey is administered to incoming
students with the assistance of Orientation Leaders, Orientation
Counselors and Academic Advisors (due to recent changes in the
Advising portion of orientation, fall 2000 saw this survey being
administered separately, leading to a substantial decrease in
the return rate--from 91-96% to 46% for fall 2000). A
complete profile of this data can be obtained in the Student Affairs
Library, located in 110 Carr Building.
Data
Reports & This Site
The
tables generated for this site are derived from basic reports
received by the Division of Student Affairs. The full database
is provided to IRSS, and use of that data is coordinated through
the Office of Institutional Research.
This
site displays graphic summaries of data collected here at UNC-CH,
including select results from isolated years and longitudinal
analyses of the last five years. Also included are summaries of
UNC-CH data from 1971 to 2000 (report generated by CIRP). A complete
profile can be obtained in the Division of Student Affairs Library,
110 Carr Building. For more information on the Entering
Freshman Survey, see the Higher
Education Research Institute site at UCLA.
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About
Our Graphs & Tables
Thematized
Data of 5-Year Period
- most
graphics compare those populations between which lie the greatest
difference:
school: UNC-CH first-year students are compared
with students at what CIRP defines as "other highly selective
public universities"
gender: females and males are compared; all
data refers to first-year students at UNC-CH
- questions
here represented are 2-option questions, unless otherwise
noted; as a few of the questions on the CIRP require more
than a "yes" or "no" response, graphics
depicting such data usually represent a longitudinal look
at each of the 3-5 responses (instead of the usual
comparisons between gender or among schools)
- The
tables and graphs were constructed on a scale that should
be viewable with most monitors and settings. Please contact
Paul Marchbanks
if you would like any graphs resized and sent to you for your
own use/reports.
- most
statistical percentages have been rounded for ease of interpretation,
unless closeness of comparison benefits from showing decimal
places.
- if
a question was not asked each of the 5 years under consideration,
that year will not be represented in the graph
- while
each link does indeed lead to the intended information, you
may need to scroll down to find the desired data.
- a
few of the queries represented here were conceived at UNC-CH
for local use: the CIRP allows for 20 questions to be added
each year, tailored by the university (about half of these
are represented on this site). Please e-mail Paul
Marchbanks for a list of those 20 questions for any fall
since 1996.
Longitudinal
Record of 30-Year Period
- these
pages are formatted for web viewing, not for printing. Please
contact Paul Marchbanks
for printer-friendly Excel files of this data
-
this complimentary report was generated by CIRP to commemorate
and collect three decades of data at UNC-CH
-
some responses have been consolidated/aggregated; note that
these responses are also represented in a disaggregated format
(see the bottom of each directory)
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