Tasha Almond-Dannenbring is now Director of Strategic Accounts at HelioCampus. Te-Hsin Chang is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Taichung University of Education. India Hampton is now Director of IR, ...

Reports & Tools Democracy Counts 2018: Increased Student and Institutional Engagement (Angela Henderson) This report contains findings from the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE), a landmark s...

eAIR recently sat down with Dai Li, Director of Institutional Research and Planning, Pittsburg State University, to talk about IR careers, the benefits of AIR membership, and exciting new projects taking place...

eAIR recently sat down with several members to find out how volunteering with the association has helped them grow their networks and engage in their professional roles. As a bonus, these members shared useful tips for f...

To date, 1,153 institutions participated in the 2018 National Survey of IR Offices. In a series of webinars this fall, Darlena Jones shares summary results from the survey:  October 3 Structuring and Financing the...

Thank you to Eric Atchison and Carolyn Mata for presenting IPEDS Coordination: Several State Perspectives at the 1st IPEDS Educator web conference for the 2019-20 contract cycle, held 8/26. Participants got to hear from ...

Humboldt State University is one of 23 campuses in the nation’s largest four-year university system, the California State University system. While a formal office of Institutional Research was only founded in 2009,...

Figure 1. Ethnicity Table The columns I used for the chart were Ethnicity, Georgia Percentage Positive, Georgia Percentage, and College Percentage (Figure 2). Excel 2016 is the software used to construct the chart. The ...

As we transition to a new academic year, let me extend well wishes for success. AIR leadership has several upcoming events that will require membership participation and engagement. Briefly, I would like to highlight two...

Reports & Tools IES Director’s Biennial Report to Congress (FY 2017-18) The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has released their Director’s Biennial Report to Congress for Fiscal Years 2017–18. ...

Now Available: U.S. News Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files U.S. News is again providing, at no cost to institutional researchers, Excel spreadsheets with ranking data that appear in the main ranking...

David Crook has retired as University Dean for Institutional Research and Assessment from the CUNY System Office. Tammie Cumming is now Associate Provost, Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at CUNY ...

Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals. This edition of eAIR Journal News highlights The Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition call fo...

Dear Meihua: At my institution we are focusing more on student success as it relates to curriculum. I have heard about a “synergetic combo” and a “toxic combo.” Can you define those terms and disc...

eAIR spoke with Iryna Johnson, Associate Director for Analytics, Auburn University about the Forum call for proposals, attending the Forum for the first time, and the intrinsic value of AIR membership.   e...

“If you want to go fast you should go alone, but if you want to go far, you should go together.” – Source unknown. I am a strong believer in the power of collective action to achieve a common goal and t...

Have you ever wondered how the AIR Board of Directors (Board) and the staff of the Executive Office (EO) interact with one another and what they accomplish? The Board and EO have a symbiotic relationship that is based o...

It’s challenging to be the director of an IR office. How many staff should you have? What kinds of work should those staff do? What roles should those staff be in? This month, we look at the staff roles within an I...

Reports & Tools Colleges’ Use of Big Data for Tracking Students to Boost Graduation Rates Comes at a Cost (Angela Henderson) This report from Hechinger explores the relationship between using predictive analyti...

There are usually some of the same variables (gender, birthdate, etc.) included in multiple data files that your office collects or maintains. Instead of duplicating the syntax in the syntax file for each data file, a sm...