“…Finally, institutional research-a traditional function and task of HEPROs-has for some time been in the focus of researchers (Fincher 1978a(Fincher , b, 1981(Fincher , 1982(Fincher , 2000Dressel 1981;Rogers and Gentemann 1989;McKinney and Hindera 1992;Teren-zini 1993;Delaney 1997;Volkwein 1999;Hossler et al 2001a, b;Teichler 1996;Neave 2005;Auferkorte-Michaelis 2008). Institutional research, although existing for decades and being well researched, got little to no attention by many authors discussed above.…”