Publications

Robin Etter Zúñiga. “WileyPlus Case Studies.” John Wiley and Sons, Inc. April, 2007

Robin Etter Zúñiga. “Building Teams and Tools for Teaching: An Evaluation of the BT3 program.” August, 2005.

Robin Etter Zúñiga. “Austin ENLACE (Engaging the Latino Community for Education) Final Evaluation Report.” Kellogg Foundation. August, 2005.

Robin Etter Zúñiga, John R. Paige, CSC, Allison McKissack. “Building Teams and Tools for Teaching: Higher Education and K-12 working together to improve teaching and learning.” In New Tools, New Teachers, New Learning: Transformative Lessons from the PT3 Program.  ISTE, 2005.

Robin Etter Zúñiga and Pamela Pease.  “Evaluating the Virtual Institution: The Flashlight Project Evaluation of International University.” May 19, 1998. A paper presented to the Thirty-Eighth Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Minneapolis, MN.

Knocking at the College Door: High School Graduates: Projections by State, 1996 to 2012. Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado.  March 1998 (principal investigator and co-author).

Stephen C. Ehrmann and Robin Etter Zúñiga. The Flashlight Current Student Inventory and Evaluation Handbook. The TLT Group. Washington D.C., November 1997.

“Demographic Trends and Projections Affecting Higher Education.” In Dan Layzell, Ed., Forecasting and Managing Enrollment and Revenue: An Overview of Current Trends, Issues, and Methods, New Directions for Institutional Research, Volume 93, (Cambridge, MA: Jossey-Bass, Spring, 1997).

"WICHE Policy Insights, Quality Assurance in Distance Education." Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. April 1996.

"WICHE Policy Insights, College Student Migration." Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. December 1995.

Confronting the Tuition Spiral: A Sourcebook for Higher Education Policymakers in the West. Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, Colorado.  August 1995.

"Tuition and Fees and Financial Aid in Public Higher Education in the West, 1994-95" WICHE Reports on Higher Education in the West, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. June 1995.

"Tuition and Fees and Financial Aid in Public Higher Education in the West, 1993-94" WICHE Reports on Higher Education in the West, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. August 1994.

 Johnstone, Sally M.,  Robin E. Zúñiga and Richard A. Markwood. "Student and Faculty Survey Responses and Analysis"  in  New Pathways to a Degree: Technology Opens The College Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. July 1994.

 "Career Mobility of Chicano Administrators in Higher Education: Findings of a Replication study on Chicano Administrators in Colleges and Universities in the West" WICHE Reports on Higher Education in the West, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. May 1994 (editor).

 "Trends in Undergraduate Enrollment in Higher Education in the West by Race and Ethnicity, 1980 to 1990" WICHE Reports on Higher Education in the West, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. June 1993.

Book Review: "Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics" by Rodolfo O. de la Garza, et. al. Westview Press, 1992 in Mexican American State Legislative Policy Institute Network, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1993.

High School Graduates: Projections by State, 1992 to 2009  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. October 1993 (principal investigator and author). 

High School Graduate Projections by State: A Test of Methodology Technical Report.  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. November 1992. (principal investigator and author).

Exploring the Relationship: A Survey of the Literature on Higher Education and the Economy. Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. November 1992. (principal investigator and author).

 Gill, Judith I., Robin E. Zúñiga and Virginia L. Golder. Meeting Economic and Social Challenges: A Strategic Agenda for Higher Education  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado. October 1992.

The Road to College:  Educational Progress by Race and Ethnicity.  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.  Boulder, Colorado. May 1991. (principal investigator and author)

Lenth, Charles and Robin Etter Zúñiga.  "New England Campuses Must Prepare for Drop in High School Graduates"  Connections:  New England Journal for Higher Education and Economic Development Vol IV No. 2 (Summer 1989).

Lenth, Charles, Robin Etter Zúñiga and John Hálcon.  Setting the Agenda:  Reform and Renewal in Undergraduate Education.  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.  Boulder, Colorado. April 1989.

High School Graduate Projections by State:  1986 to 2004.  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Boulder, Colorado.  May 1988.  (principal investigator and author)

 "Report of the Special Election Laws Commission of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."  May 1984.  Prepared by the Massachusetts Development Research Institute, with Dr. John H. Fenton, et. al.

 "The UMass Undergraduate, Spring 1985.  The Cycles Survey:  A Report on Students' Views of Their Lives at the University."  Student Affairs Research and Evaluation Office Report No. 247, University of Massachusetts.  Co-authored with Dr. Joyce Clark.

 "The Entering Class at UMass:  ACE/CIRP Survey, Fall 1984."  Student Affairs Research and Evaluation Office Report No. 246, University of Massachusetts.

"Five-College Cycles:  The Undergraduate in 1984."  A report of The Student Affairs Research and Evaluation Office, University of Massachusetts.  September 1984.  Co-authored with Dr. Karl Beeler.

 

Presentations

 Zúñiga, R.E., Stoever, C.J., and Mireles, S.V. (2013, May). Improving developmental education? An evaluation of a co-requisite college algebra program. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Fong, C.J., Patal, E.A., Jones, S.J., Zúñiga, R.E., Snyder, K.E. (2012, April) The relationship between underachievement and self-concept, motivation, and self-regulation: a metanalysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.

 Stoever, C. J., Clunis, T., & Etter- Zúñiga, R. (2010, April). Predicting higher education enrollment and mathematics course placement through high school mathematics course-taking patterns. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Kallison, J., Etter- Zúñiga, R., Stoever, C.J. & Stader, D. (2009, April) A Two-Year Study of Summer Bridge Programs in Texas. Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

 1987  - Present             Presentations and workshops on the demographics of higher education and issues related to education policy and research to groups/organizations such as: 

Annual Kellogg/ENLACE Conferences, Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) Annual Grantees Conference, Society for Information Technology in Education (SITE), National Education Computing Conference (NECC), The College Board, Association for Institutional Research, Colorado Association of Planners and Institutional Researchers, Annual Meeting of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications; Standard and Poor's Conference on Higher Education Credit Worthiness; National Association for Chicano Studies; WICHE Institute on Ethnic Diversity; Colorado Association of Multi-Cultural Counseling and Development; Colorado Association of Financial Aid Administrators; Western Regional Meeting of the College Board 1990; Agenda 2000:  Recruitment, Retention, and Racism in Higher Education Conference 1989; University of Colorado Graduate Teacher Program; Northwest Academic Forum; Rocky Mountain Association of College Admissions Counselors; Annual Forum of the College Board; Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.

 1994 - Present           Presentations and workshops on evaluating the effectiveness of technology-mediated instruction for groups/organizations such as: 

Southern Association for Institutional Research, Texas Association for Institutional Research, NUTN, Educause, Professional Organizational Development (POD) Network, University of Texas – Commerce, Millersville University, TLT Group Catalyst Institutes, Virginia Polytechnic University, University of Colorado, Council on Agile Pennsylvania Education, Association for Institutional Research, Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications Annual Meeting and Management for Distance Education Institutes, Worcester Consortium (Worcester, Massachusetts), Society for College and University Planners, The Oklahoma Distance Learning Association, University of Kansas Medical Center, Bethel College, Michigan Virtual University, California State University Fullerton, University of Cincinnati, University of Missouri-St. Louis, California Lutheran University, American Library Association, Historically Black Colleges Leadership Forum, St. Edward’s University.