October 2026 Issue
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AIR Releases 2025–26 Annual Report
As the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) marks its 60th anniversary, its 2025–26 Annual Report is now available. The report looks back on a year when AIR’s community grew larger and more connected ...Read Moreabout: AIR Releases 2025–26 Annual Report -
Your Retention Rate Dropped. Or Did It?
Why a single year can’t answer that question—and what three simulations show about how long it actually takes to know your retention rates are changing.An interactive version of the article can be found here:...Read Moreabout: Your Retention Rate Dropped. Or Did It? -
Stop Building Dashboards. Start Building Grant-Winning Pipelines.
Why the next generation of funded workforce programs will be built on ETL pipelines, not just good intentions.If your institution has ever lost grant funding for a workforce program that everyone agreed was a good idea, ...Read Moreabout: Stop Building Dashboards. Start Building Grant-Winning Pipelines. -
Making Room for the Future When the Present Is Full
The irony of a short piece with this title is that I almost didn’t make the time to write it. My top priority right now is getting a position for my team posted and starting the hiring process as soon as possible. ...Read Moreabout: Making Room for the Future When the Present Is Full -
Get to Know Our Community: Wells Ling
At AIHEC, my work focuses on managing AIHEC’s internal institutional research data system known as the American Indian Measures of Success (AIMS). This data collected from each of our member institutions is then le...Read Moreabout: Get to Know Our Community: Wells Ling -
Speaking the Language of Decisions: KPIs from Base Camp to Summit
Every workplace sits atop mountains of data distributed across bespoke and commercially acquired systems. For executive leaders, achieving data-driven decision-making is an ongoing quest, in which they are deeply depende...Read Moreabout: Speaking the Language of Decisions: KPIs from Base Camp to Summit
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