Professor Jim Hearn's Resource Website
Some websites with useful data and reports on higher education:
Research Centers and Institutes on U.S. Campuses:
McBee Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia
Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan
(see also Michigan's Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
Enrollment Management Recruiting and Access, UCLA
Center for Postsecondary Success, Florida State University
Center for Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University
Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University
Center for the Study of Higher Education, Penn State
Student Success through Applied Research, University of Wisconsin
Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research
Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance, University of Houston
Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
Hope Center, Temple University
Rockefeller Institute of Government
Center for International Higher Education, Boston College
Pullias Center for Higher Education, USC
Community College Research Center, Columbia University
Colleges and Universities 2000, University of California, Riverside
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Columbia University
National Opinion Research Center [NORC], University of Chicago
Other Sources for Research, Data, and Reports on U.S. Higher Education:
American Institutes for Research-Education
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
College Insight (diversity/affordability/success issues)
Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability (data and reports to 2015 only)
The Education Trust (see especially College Results Online)
Federal Investment by Institution (from DataLab, a U.S. Government website)
Grapevine (state-level higher-education data)
Institute for Higher Education Policy (see especially the Postsecondary Data GPS and "PostsecData" sites)
Mathematica Policy Research-Postsecondary Education
National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]
National Center for Higher Education Management Systems [NCHEMS] (see especially the
"NCHEMS Information" site)
Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education
Urban Institute's Education Data Explorer
Research Associations in the U.S.:
Association for Education Finance and Policy [AEFP]
American Educational Research Association [AERA]
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management [APPAM]
Association for Institutional Research [AIR] (see especially their IPEDS training resources)
Association for the Study of Higher Education [ASHE]
Internationally Focused Organizations, Centers, Associations, and Resources:
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies [CHEPS]
Consortium of Higher Education Researchers [CHER]
The European Commission: Education Policy and Eurodyce
European Association for Institutional Research [EAIR]
Eurydice (information on European education systems)
International Centre for Higher Education Management (University of Bath)
Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies
European University Association's University Efficiency Hub
European University Association's University Autonomy Scorecard
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]
Society for Research into Higher Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
The Centre for Global Higher Education, University of Oxford
The Institute of Education (IOE), Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel, Germany
Center for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), University of Porto, Portugal
The Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Center for Higher Education Governance Ghent(CHEGG), University of Ghent, Belgium
International Association of Universities (IAU), Paris, France
The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), Brussels, Belgium
Bologna Process Follow Up Group (BFUG)
European Tertiary Education Register (ETER)
U.S. Government and Government-Affiliated Organizations:
National Center for Education Statistics [NCES]/Institute of Education Sciences [IES] (see
especially the Digest of Education Statistics and the DataLab)
National Science Foundation [NSF] (see especially National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics)
National Postsecondary Education Cooperative [NPEC]
Institutional, State, Regional, and Professional Associations in the U.S.:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences [AAAS]
American Association of Community Colleges [AACC]
American Association of State Colleges and Universities [AASCU]
American Association of University Professors [AAUP]
American Council on Education [ACE]
Association of American Medical Colleges [AAMC]
Association of American Universities [AAU]
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges [AGB]
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities [APLU]
Association of University Research Parks [AURP]
Council of Graduate Schools [CGS]
Council of Independent Colleges [CIC]
College and University Professional Association for Human Resources [CUPA-HR]
Education Commission of the States [ECS] (see especially the
State Governance Structures Database)
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities [HACU]
National Association of College and University Business Officers [NACUBO]
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities [NAICU]
Southern Regional Education Board [SREB]
State Higher Education Executive Officers [SHEEO]
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education [WICHE]
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities [NAICU]
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics [NAIA]
National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA]
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
The Drake Group (athletic reform initiatives)
Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics [COIA]
Some Useful Periodicals:
Noteworthy Blogs: