Founded in 1973, the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) is located within UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Researchers at the HERI are interested in examining leadership development, institutional transformation, faculty performance, and educational equity. First-time visitors should check out the "Surveys" area first, as it contains information about some of...

Established in 1895, the Higher Learning Commission accredits college and university institutions in nineteen states. The Commission hosts an annual conference that invites participating institutions to speak on the accreditation process, as well as best practices for institutional administration, curriculum, and pedagogy. A collection of papers is published from each annual conference - the link...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been working on a number of reports on how to strengthen pre-collegiate education in community colleges, and this compelling work represents part of their most recent findings on the subject. Authored by Andrea Conklin Bueschel, this 24-page report draws on interviews with students, community college leaders, teachers, and others to look...

Every year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) researches a broad swath of topics ranging from graduate education in geography to the viability of sustainable agriculture. Visitors can scan through these documents here, on a website which includes recent publications like "Collections in Support of Biological Research" and "Baccalaureate Origins of U.S.-trained S&E Doctorate Recipients." The...

The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have teamed up to create the 2017 Horizon Report on Higher Education. This sixty-page report, which will be of interest to higher education administrators, faculty members, and policy makers, highlights key trends, challenges, and developments in the world of higher education. Topics discussed in this year's report include...

The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College is a source of excellent classroom resources, including lesson plans on science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and more. This module takes a look at the undergraduate research experience. Instructors looking to more deeply engage their undergrads are using collaborative research projects to advance student knowledge and allow...

This new site, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, is home to the Re-envisioning the PhD project, which is tasked with investigating change in doctoral education, in particular, helping to expand the career choices available to PhD students. In the Re-envisioning Project Resources section, visitors will find conference materials, recommendations from studies, summaries of interviews, a...

Over half of all students taking classes at the college level do so at a community college. Many policy-makers, pundits, and politicians are wondering how to best improve these key educational institutions. This 40-page report released in April 2012 takes a look at the current shortcomings of American community colleges, along with offering some suggestions about the way forward. The report was...

From Oregon State University's Ecampus Research Unit comes the Research in Action (RIA) podcast, which is dedicated to "topics and issues related to research in higher education." Each episode of this podcast features a guest scholar who discusses their research process, often focusing on a particular methodology that may be of interest to emerging researchers. For example, in one recent episode...

The website of this "not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance committed to making research to improve health a higher national priority" has links to tools expressly for visitors who are the "Public," "Researchers," members of "Congress," or from the "Media." Visitors can find the "Tools For" menu on the right side of any page. Visitors to the site shouldn't leave here without...