EPR 594: Introduction to Research Design

Among its goals are seeking to provide a national voice and advocacy for the community college mission, serve as a national information resource, and facilitate collaboration among AACC staff and stakeholders.

We equip our members to advance equitable outcomes, spark civic engagement, and build thriving regions—so diverse learners seeking prosperity can bring America’s promise home.

We are tenacious and trailblazing — advocating for women and girls since 1881 and into the future!

AIHEC provides leadership and influences public policy on American Indian higher education issues through advocacy, research, and program initiatives; promotes and strengthens Indigenous languages, cultures, communities, and tribal nations; and through its unique position, serves member institutions and emerging TCUs.

Begun as the Association of University Evening Colleges (AUEC) in 1939 and transitioning to the Association for Continuing Higher Education in 1973, ACHE has become an organization dedicated to serving the entire spectrum of continuing higher education.

The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and children.

Building upon its history of excellence as the founder and leader of the first-year experience movement, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition serves education professionals by supporting and advancing efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and through higher education.

The American College Personnel Association (ACPA) – headquartered in Washington, D.C. at the National Center for Higher Education, is the leading comprehensive student affairs association that advances student affairs and engages students for a lifetime of learning and discovery.

Major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities. We represent nearly 1,800 college and university presidents and the executives at related associations, and are the only major higher education association to represent all types of U.S. accredited, degree-granting institutions: two-year and four-year, public and private.

The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

Supports higher education professionals in the collection, analysis, interpretation, and communication of data, and the strategic use of information for effective decision making and planning. AIR provides resources, innovative practices, and professional development opportunities for AIR members and the higher education community, including professionals from institutional research, effectiveness, assessment, planning, and related fields.​

A scholarly society with 2,100 members dedicated to higher education as a field of study. It is committed to diversity in its programs and membership, and has enjoyed extraordinary success in involving graduate students in Association activities.

Focused on improving undergraduate education and advancing liberal education. Founded in 1915, AAC&U comprises more than 1,350 member institutions — including accredited public and private colleges, community colleges, research universities, and comprehensive universities.

Founded in 1900, the Association of American Universities is composed of America’s leading research universities. AAU’s 71 research universities transform lives through education, research, and innovation.

Aims to build a field around the use of improvement science and networked improvement communities to solve longstanding inequities in educational outcomes.

CONAHEC advises and connects institutions interested in establishing or strengthening academic collaborative programs within the North American region and beyond.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is the global nonprofit association dedicated to educational advancement professionals—in alumni relations, communications, development, marketing, and advancement services—who share the goal of championing education to transform lives and society.

The Council of Graduate Schools serves to advance graduate education and research in the U.S. and globally. We support our mission through advocacy in the policy arena, innovative research, and the development and dissemination of best practices.

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, policy, and advocacy organization committed to promoting postsecondary access and success for all students, regardless of race, background, or circumstance. Founded in 1993, IHEP has provided timely, evidence-based, and student-centered research to inform policy decisions and address our nation’s most pressing higher education challenges for the past 30 years.

Since 1976, NAICU has represented this subset of American higher education on policy issues with the federal government. NAICU's policy mission is focused on issues affecting student aid, tax policy, and government regulation.

APLU is a membership organization that fosters a community of university leaders collectively working to advance the mission of public research universities. The association’s membership consists of more than 250 public research universities, land-grant institutions, state university systems, and affiliated organizations spanning across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, six U.S. territories, Canada, and Mexico.

AMOSSHE is a professional membership association for leaders of Student Services in UK higher education. Student Services departments in nearly all publicly funded UK higher education providers are members of AMOSSHE, as well as several overseas universities.

We provide development opportunities and sector representation for professional staff working in post-secondary education student engagement, student participation, wellbeing and development. The expertise is driven by the membership of the Association.

Since 1973, CACUSS has provided professional development services and programs for members in all the Canadian provinces. Cross-divisional interest groups called communities of practice and networks were formed by members in 2015 based on their professional needs, focusing on areas such as student health and wellness, first-year students, new professionals, and leadership education.

The Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association - situated in Jamaica at The University of the West Indies is known for leading scholarship and discourse on student services in the Caribbean. The CTLPA's guiding philosophy is to foster the development of a student-centered culture in educational institutions at the tertiary level across the Caribbean. The Association's aim is to network with student services personnel within those institutions so as to enhance their roles as educators and encourage the highest levels of professionalism.

The mission of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is to contribute to an understanding of education through encouragement and promotion of comparative education and related areas of inquiry and activity.

The European Council for Student Affairs – ECStA is an independent and autonomous umbrella organization aiming to promote the social infrastructure at all higher education institutions of Europe.

The HACU represents more than 470 colleges and universities committed to Hispanic higher education success in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin America, and Spain. Although our member institutions in the U.S. represent only 13% of all higher education institutions nationwide, together they are home to two-thirds of all Hispanic college students. HACU is the only national educational association that represents Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).

IASAS is a non-profit organization which began life as an informal network of higher education professionals around the world working in the area of student affairs and services.

The Mid-South Educational Research Association was formed in 1972 as a nonprofit incorporated educational organization to encourage and provide results of quality educational research in elementary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher learning.

is the body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states. It serves as the common denominator of shared values and practices primarily among the diverse institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Latin America and certain other international sites

he Alabama Association of Higher Education Diversity Officers advise its members on issues, policies, and practices that affect diversity at higher education institutions in Alabama. The association proposes initiatives to ensure that higher education institutions in Alabama fairly meet the needs of its underrepresented faculty, staff and students.

The Alabama College Placement Association (ACPA) was organized in 1976 to bring college and placement/career services offices together with employers for personal growth and development and to link students with employers.