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Let’s Get Connected!
In these uncertain times you should know that you are not alone. Whether your concerns center around the pandemic, financial constraints, enrollment matters, or social unrest, AIR is here to support you and your work. As...Read Moreabout: Let’s Get Connected! -
Data Governance: An Implementation Checklist
One of my favorite books is “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande. In this book, Dr. Gawande explains that in our ever-changing world, many processes are complicated with inter-co...Read Moreabout: Data Governance: An Implementation Checklist -
IR’s Role in Promoting a Data-Driven Culture
Whether beginning a new position or continuing in an established one, data and information expectations for Institutional Research (IR) offices continue to expand at an accelerated pace. Open source availability of tools...Read Moreabout: IR’s Role in Promoting a Data-Driven Culture -
Excel Data from U.S. News
New Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files Available from U.S. News U.S. News is again providing, free of charge to any institutional researcher, Excel spreadsheets with ranking data that appear in the m...Read Moreabout: Excel Data from U.S. News -
How Can We Use the AIR Statement of Ethical Principles During the Current Crises Affecting Higher Education?
Organizational and institutional commitments to ethical action are indispensable at a time when our larger societal commitment to values-based action appears to be in the throes of a volatile period of fractiousness and ...Read Moreabout: How Can We Use the AIR Statement of Ethical Principles During the Current Crises Affecting Higher Education? -
Make a Lasting Impact
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Three things come to mind immediately when we think of the Association for Institutional Research: ...Read Moreabout: Make a Lasting Impact -
The Story Behind the Stony Brook University COVID-19 Dashboard
In summer 2020, Stony Brook University’s Senior Executive team requested the development and launch of a public-facing dashboard to display information about COVID-19 on the campus. The Office of Institutional Rese...Read Moreabout: The Story Behind the Stony Brook University COVID-19 Dashboard -
“Ctrl” Excel and Word
Did you know there are many keyboard shortcuts built into Microsoft Office that can save you time and make your life easier? It’s time to get friendly with your Control key! Here are 25 “Ctrl&n...Read Moreabout: “Ctrl” Excel and Word -
Enterprise Experience Summit
Mark Your Calendar for the Enterprise Experience Summit Enterprise Experience Summit November 5 | 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET The year's challenges have highlighted the need for colleges and universities to m...Read Moreabout: Enterprise Experience Summit -
In Memoriam: Arthur Wright Chickering
We lost a prolific scholar, influential thought leader and innovator on August 15, 2020, with the passing of Arthur Wright Chickering. His distinguished career spanned more than six decades and is marked by a long-standi...Read Moreabout: In Memoriam: Arthur Wright Chickering