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Editors' Notes More than 3,100 baccalaureate or higher‐degree‐offering colleges and universities currently constitute the landscape of American higher education. Although these institutions of higher education are all known as “colleges” or “universities,” the names do not tell the entire story of each classification of institutions, and they reveal even less about individual institutions. Differences in institutions begin with the varied missions they represent, which affect all parts of the institution, from number and type of students enrolled to size of the physical campus to structure of the administration. More than 76% of these institutions in the United States have enrollments of less than 5,000, and as institutional researchers who currently work or have very recently worked in small, liberal arts colleges, we wanted to recognize the differences of institutional research (IR) work in a small college or university setting versus a large one. For the purposes of this volume, while we have left it up to the volume contributors to use the terminology of their choice when referring to small colleges and universities (SCUs), we maintain the aforementioned definition of a small college or university as one with enrollments of less than 5,000, as well as having a stand‐alone IR office http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Directions for Institutional Research Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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0271-0579
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1536-075X
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More than 3,100 baccalaureate or higher‐degree‐offering colleges and universities currently constitute the landscape of American higher education. Although these institutions of higher education are all known as “colleges” or “universities,” the names do not tell the entire story of each classification of institutions, and they reveal even less about individual institutions. Differences in institutions begin with the varied missions they represent, which affect all parts of the institution, from number and type of students enrolled to size of the physical campus to structure of the administration. More than 76% of these institutions in the United States have enrollments of less than 5,000, and as institutional researchers who currently work or have very recently worked in small, liberal arts colleges, we wanted to recognize the differences of institutional research (IR) work in a small college or university setting versus a large one. For the purposes of this volume, while we have left it up to the volume contributors to use the terminology of their choice when referring to small colleges and universities (SCUs), we maintain the aforementioned definition of a small college or university as one with enrollments of less than 5,000, as well as having a stand‐alone IR office

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Published: Jul 1, 2017

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