Dr. Sylvia Hurtado, Major Presenter at 2007 ACPA/NASPA Joint Meeting, March 31—April 4, 2007, Orlando, Florida, and Michael Hanitchak, NINLHE Governing Council Chair

About Dr. Sylvia Hurtado's presentation: The power to shape education lies, to a great extent, upon what we know about our students. For the past 40 years, the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), housed at the Higher Education Insitute (HERI), has been one of the most powerful sources of information about incoming first-year students.

Sylvia Hurtado, Professor and Director of HERI, and John Pryor, director of the CIRP, debuted the main findings of their new book The American Freshman: Forty Year Trends.