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This chapter traces the development of an institutional research (IR) function at a small, private liberal arts college in Southern California, from its earliest beginnings as a fledgling one-person office to what is today a maturing operation that works in close partnership with decision-makers and faculty across campus to advance the educational aims of the college. It traces IR’s historical underpinnings and dynamic evolution as a field of practice and uses examples of institutional research in planning, decision-making, and teaching and learning at Pomona College to demonstrate its role in supporting a liberal arts mission.
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See https://www.pomona.edu/administration/institutional-research for more information.
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See https://www.pomona.edu/administration/diversity-pomona for more information.
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See https://www.wscuc.org/ for more information.
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See https://www.wscuc.org/content/core-competency-faqs for more information.
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See http://tlc.pomona.edu/about/ for more information.
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The rubric was adapted from the information literacy rubric from the VALUE Rubric Development Project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U): https://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics
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Rachford, J.L. (2019). Institutional Research to Support Planning, Decision-Making, and Teaching and Learning at Pomona College, USA. In: Nishimura, M., Sasao, T. (eds) Doing Liberal Arts Education. Education Innovation Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2877-0_15
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