Our Mission
Founded in the mid-1980s, the Institute for Research on Higher Education (IRHE) is a university-wide research institute that conducts research relevant to policymakers and educational practitioners. Over the years IRHE conducted large scale projects and served a national convening function. The first director of IRHE was Robert Zemsky. From 2009 - the present, under the leadership of its new director, Joni Finney, IRHE collaborated with the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education to complete a five-state policy review, to determine the relationship between public policy and state performance in higher education.
For further information about the State Review Project, click here.
Joni Finney recently co-published a 