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“On the Nature of Institutional Research” Revisited: Plus ça Change… ?

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In reconsidering the three “tiers of institutional intelligence” needed for effective institutional research practice he first offered 20 years ago (Terenzini in Res Higher Educ 34:1–10, 1993), Terenzini suggests that those forms of intelligence retain their overall relevance today, but that they also require some important redefinition. The major changes deal with adapting to the dramatic transformations in information technologies and analytical power; greater awareness and responsiveness to the changing state, national, and international educational and political scenes; the need for more extensive familiarity with the research literature, and subtler and more savvy political skills.

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Terenzini, P.T. “On the Nature of Institutional Research” Revisited: Plus ça Change… ?. Res High Educ 54, 137–148 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-012-9274-3

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