Performance Reporting and performance funding in higher education?


"Dr. William E. Knight" wrote:

> Ohio Institutional Research and Planning Colleagues,
>
> I have recently taken on the responsibility of serving
> as Associate Editor for the Association for Institutional
> Research's (AIR) Resources in Institutional Research
> book series.  AIR members will be familiar with this as
> the series of short monographs that are sent to AIR members
> approximately once per year with titles such as "A
> Primer on Institutional Research," "Questionnaire Survey
> Research," and (most recently) "Effective Reporting."
> Future plans for this series include periodic updates of
> some of the "classics" as well as publication of monographs
> on new topics.  I'd like to take this opportunity to ask
> the OAIRP membership for its input on ideas for new issues.
> What additional topics would you like to see included in
> this series of practitioner-oriented IR books?  Please let
> me know your thoughts at your convenience.  Thanks.
>
> Bill Knight
> 1999-2000 OAIRP President
>
> Dr. William E. Knight                   (419) 372-7816 (voice)
> Dir., Planning and Inst. Research       (419) 372-7878 (fax)
> Ast. Prof., Higher Education            [log in to unmask]
> Bowling Green State University          www.bgsu.edu/offices/ir
> 301 McFall Center
> Bowling Green, Ohio  43403-0087
>
> shamelessly stolen IR and planning-related quotes:
> "If you torture numbers long enough they'll confess to anything."
> "If you want a green suit turn on a green light."
> "You don't fatten the pig by weighing it."
> (re 11th-hour info. requests) "If you want it bad, you may get it bad."
> "Where you come from determines how you use your statistics."
> "Don't give people a clock without telling them what time it is."
> “Statistics are no substitute for judgment . . . and vice versa."
> "People don't plan to fail; they fail to plan."
> "Instead of worrying about the future, let us labor to create it."
> "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and change amid
> order."

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Robert Sheehan, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Performance Reporting and Analysis
Ohio Board of Regents
614-752-9473 (voice) (note new number)
614-446-5866 (fax)
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