2007

New Brunswick, NJ

Dr. Robert Zemsky

Getting Reform Back on Track:  A Not So Modest Proposal

2006

Philadelphia, PA

Jamie Merisotis

Convergence: Trends Threatening College Opportunity in America

Dr. Patricia McGuire

Institutional Research in a Transforming Institution

2005

Saratoga Springs, NY

John Lombardi 

Public Relations, Accountability, and Measurement: What Do You Want? How Do You Get It?

Joseph Moore

Good Data, Wrong Questions:  The Role of IR in Higher Education Policy

2004

Portsmouth, NH

Dr. Peggy L. Maki

The Roles and Responsibilities of Institutional Researchers in Assessing Student Learning as a Core Institutional Process of Discovery

2003

Newport, RI

Peggy R. Williams

A World in Need of Leaders 

André Bell

What Do Senior Administrators Need to Know?

2002

Annapolis, MD

James Anderson

Generating Success Models That Integrate the Assessment of Student Learning and Engagement, Effective Teaching, and Diversity

Patricia Haeuser

Assessment for Institutional Improvement

2001

Boston, MA

Allan Cohen

Increasing Institutional Researchers' Influence

Jamie Merisotis

Institutional Research and Policy-Making 

2000

Pittsburgh, PA

David Smallen

Maintaining our Bridges  - What do We Really Know about IT?

Tom Morteson

Higher educational opportunity in the human capital economy

1999

Newport, RI

Claire L. Gaudiani

President & Planner:  Two Important Tasks

George D. Kuh

The National Survey of Student Engagement & the Role of IR in the Contemporary University

1998

Philadelphia, PA

William Flynn

The Learning Paradigm and Institutional Transformation

David Hollowell

Providing the Technology Infrastructure to Support Innovation in Teaching and Learning

1997

Hartford, CT

Andrew DeRocco, John Doyle, William Dyson, Merle Harris, and Michael Middaugh

What Does Higher Education Mean to You? (panel discussion)

1996

Princeton, NJ

George Gallup, Jr.

Taking Survey Research to the Next Step:  Empowering Social Change

1995

Burlington, VT

Sue Shaman

Harvesting the Findings

1994

Baltimore, MD

Roberta Spalter-Roth

The Institute for Women's Policy Research

1993

Lake George, NY

Robert Culver

Rightsizing - A Practical Approach to Cost Reduction and Productivity Enhancement

1992

Washington, DC

Clifford Adelman

Judgments in the Window: Standards of Content and Standards of Performance

1991

Cambridge, MA

Elizabeth Cook

Marketing Higher Education in a Changing Society:  Framing Our Question for the 1990's

1990

Albany, NY

Bruce Johnstone

Determining a Positive Future During Difficult Times

1989

Pittsburgh, PA

William Elliott

Welcoming Address

1988

Providence, RI

Richard Hall

Make Better Decisions Through a Better Understanding of the Organization and Its Environment

1987

Rochester, NY

Peter Ewell

Assessing the State of Assessment

1986

Philadelphia, PA

Helen O'Bannon

IR:  New Challenges to an Evolving Role

1985

Hartford, CT

Stephen Trachtenberg

Uses of IR from the Viewpoint of a University President

1984

Albany, NY

Robert Zemsky

IR at the Core of Strategic Planning

1983

Hershey, PA

T. E. Holnader

Will Higher Education Re-emerge as a High Priority?

1982

Durham, NH

John McCredie

Strategies for Campus Computing

1981

Princeton, NJ

Thomas Green

Concepts of Educational Quality

1980

Amherst, MA

Hugh Hawkins

The American University and Its Publics:  A Historian's View

1979

Cooperstown, NY

Benjamin Demott

Creative Changes Ahead in Higher Learning

1978

University Park, PA

Edward C. McGuire

Politics and Education:  The Odd Couple

1977

Durham, NH

Marilyn Gittell

Does IR Equal Institutional Retrenchment?

1976

Princeton, NJ

Dorothy Goodwin

The Role of IR

1975

New Haven, CT

Stephen Dresch

A Curmudgeon's View of the Future of Academe

1974

Williamstown, MA

Lois Torrence

The Role of IR in Higher Education