Skip to Main Content
Association for Institutional Research

The following navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. Left and right arrows move through main tier links and expand / close menus in sub tiers. Up and Down arrows will open main tier menus and toggle through sub tier links. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.

  • Professional Overview
    • AIR Statement of Ethical Principles
    • ​Duties and Functions of Institutional Research
    • Statement of Aspirational Practice for IR
    • National Survey of IR Offices
  • Learning and Events
    • AIR Forum Annual Conference
    • Course Catalog
      • Browse
      • AIR LEADs: Leadership with Evidence, Analytics, and Data
      • A Holistic Approach to IR
      • Foundations Workshops
      • ​IPEDS Keyholder Courses
      • IPEDS Workshops
      • NCES Data Institute
      • ​NSF Public Use Data
    • Webinars
    • Workshops
    • Tutorials
      • IPEDS Tutorials
      • Postsecondary Data Partnership Tutorials
    • IPEDS Training Center
    • PDP Training Center
    • Coffee Chats
    • Summits
    • Calendar
  • Resources
    • National Survey of IR Offices
    • Research and Initiatives
      • National Survey of IR Offices
      • Statement of Aspirational Practice for IR
      • Improving and Transforming IR in Postsecondary Education
      • Analytics Can Save Higher Education
      • AIR Community Surveys
      • Summits
    • Publications
      • The AIR Professional File
      • eAIR Newsletter
      • Studies and Reports
      • Books and Monographs
      • Publication Discounts
    • News
    • Job Board
      • View Jobs
      • Post a Job
    • AIR Hub Discussion Board
    • Awards and Scholarships
      • Awards
      • Scholarships and Grants
    • Degree Programs
    • Policy and Advocacy
    • Affiliated Organizations
      • Find an AO
      • ​AO Resources
      • AO and Community Events
      • AO Grants
  • About AIR
    • Who We Are
      • Vision and Mission
      • Statement on Racial Injustice
      • ​Board of Directors and Nominations & Elections Committee
      • Governance
      • 2021-2022 Annual Report
      • Staff
    • Membership
      • ​Join
      • Renew
      • Volunteer
    • Media
      • Media Releases
      • Media Kit
    • Careers at AIR
    • Contact
  • MyAIR
    • User Dashboard
    • Account
      • MyAIR Profile
      • Hub Profile
      • Communication Preferences
      • Membership Directory Preferences
      • Invoices
      • Membership History
      • Change Password
    • MyLearning Portal
    • Registered Events
    • Membership Directory
Log out
Log in
  • Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments (FACE) Institutional Questionnaire
    • IR In The Know
    • 03.30.23

    Launching Soon: Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments (FACE) Institutional Questionnaire

    • by AIR
    The Faculty, Academic Careers & Environments (FACE) project is launching the first of two components—the Institutional Questionnaire. FACE is based out of the University of Southern California’s Pullias C...
    Read Moreabout: Launching Soon: Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments (FACE) Institutional Questionnaire
  • Additional Reading
    • IR In The Know
    • 03.30.23

    CUPA-HR Employee Retention Survey Opens April 10

    • by AIR
    Mark your calendar: The 2023 CUPA-HR Employee Retention Survey, which opens on April 10, 2023, will collect responses from staff employees (not faculty) who work in all sectors of higher education on timely topics such a...
    Read Moreabout: CUPA-HR Employee Retention Survey Opens April 10
  • IR-In-The-Know-4-22
    • IR In The Know
    • 03.30.23

    Revised Federal Race/Ethnicity Categories: Comment Period Closes April 12

    • by AIR
    The period for submitting comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on its proposed revisions to statistical standards for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data closes April 12. Additional comment...
    Read Moreabout: Revised Federal Race/Ethnicity Categories: Comment Period Closes April 12
  • More Than Our Rank INORMS initiative
    • IR In The Know
    • 03.30.23

    More Than Our Rank: A New Initiative to Commit to Responsible Assessment Practices

    • by Baron Wolf, Assistant Vice President for Research and Director, Research Analytics, University of Kentucky
    Over the last five years, the International Network of Research Management Societies’ (INORMS) Research Evaluation Group has been working hard to develop new frameworks for assessment and evaluation of research...
    Read Moreabout: More Than Our Rank: A New Initiative to Commit to Responsible Assessment Practices
  • AIR Stakeholder Survey
    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 03.30.23

    What Percentage of IR Offices Have Sufficient Resources?

    • by AIR
    Successful IR/IE offices require sufficient hardware, software, space, and staff to operate efficiently. So, what percentage of offices have these resources? We asked office leaders to assess the adequacy of office resou...
    Read Moreabout: What Percentage of IR Offices Have Sufficient Resources?
  • Karen Webber
    • Board Corner
    • 03.30.23

    Cleveland, Here We Come!

    • by Karen L. Webber, AIR President
    AIR Forum With the advent of spring, we now begin deeper preparations and travel plans for the 63rd AIR Forum, which takes place May 30 – June 2 in Cleveland, OH. From across the IR globe, I hope you will be j...
    Read Moreabout: Cleveland, Here We Come!
  • AI in Higher Education
    • Featured
    • 03.30.23

    AI in Higher Education: Implications for Institutional Research

    • by Henry Zheng, Vice Provost of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning at Carnegie Mellon University; Karen Webber, Professor Emeritus, McBee Institute of Higher Education at The University of Georgia
    Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced a temporary shift in focus, we now see a return to further development and implementation of advanced technologies and broader uses of Big Data in education and other work sector...
    Read Moreabout: AI in Higher Education: Implications for Institutional Research
  • Priming Your Audience to Engage with Your Data Presentation
    • Featured
    • 03.30.23

    Online Colleges and Universities: Are They Delivering on Diversity and Inclusion? A Recent Analysis from IPEDS Data

    • by Mashref Hoque, Business Analyst II, Systems Intelligence and Data Analytics Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Although several studies have examined diversity and inclusion in higher education, they have largely overlooked online colleges and universities. Online education has become more popular due to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
    Read Moreabout: Online Colleges and Universities: Are They Delivering on Diversity and Inclusion? A Recent Analysis from IPEDS Data
    • 01.31.23

    Postsecondary Data Partnership: AIR Call for Educators

    • by AIR
    The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) seeks applications for Educators to contribute to our professional development and training programs in support of the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Postsecondary D...
    Read Moreabout: Postsecondary Data Partnership: AIR Call for Educators
  • Karen Webber
    • Board Corner
    • 01.30.23

    Board Happenings: Vote on Constitution and Bylaws Recommended Changes

    • by Karen L. Webber, AIR President
    I hope you had a good holiday season filled with happiness and hope for the year ahead. I hope one of your resolutions for 2023 is to be actively engaged with AIR!I’m sure your fall was filled with continuing to re...
    Read Moreabout: Board Happenings: Vote on Constitution and Bylaws Recommended Changes
    • Featured
    • 01.27.23

    Order Up! Everything I Learned About Institutional Research Came from Working in Restaurants

    • by Andrew L. Luna, Executive Director, Decision Support and Institutional Research, Austin Peay State University
    The few of us in this world who have endeavored to hone our skills and talents in the field of institutional research (IR) do so with the thought that ours is a truly unique profession. I mean, if one thinks about it, th...
    Read Moreabout: Order Up! Everything I Learned About Institutional Research Came from Working in Restaurants
    • Featured
    • 01.27.23

    The Provision of PII Data on Faculty and Staff by Institutional Researchers

    • by Beverly R. King, Director of Institutional Research, East Carolina University
    One of the primary responsibilities of offices of Institutional Research (IR) is responding to ad hoc requests for data on students, faculty, and staff at their institutions. Some of these ad hoc requests are for persona...
    Read Moreabout: The Provision of PII Data on Faculty and Staff by Institutional Researchers
    • Featured
    • 01.27.23

    Conducting Generalizability Studies with Unbalanced Data

    • by Paul W. Sturgis, Statistical Analyst, University of Central Florida College of Medicine
    In a recently published article in AIR Professional File (Sturgis, Marchand, Miller, Xu, and Castiglioni, 2022), I, along with my co-authors, introduce generalizability theory (G-theory) to institutional research (IR) pr...
    Read Moreabout: Conducting Generalizability Studies with Unbalanced Data
  • Thank You!
    • 12.19.22

    A Message from Christine M. Keller, Ph.D., AIR Executive Director & CEO

    • by AIR
    As we enter these final days of 2022, I extend warm greetings to the AIR community. It is a time of year to celebrate, to appreciate, and to anticipate. And as I reflect back on the last year at AIR, we have much to cele...
    Read Moreabout: A Message from Christine M. Keller, Ph.D., AIR Executive Director & CEO
    • 11.28.22

    Request for Proposal: Data and Analytics for Transformation

    • by AIR
    The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), EDUCAUSE, and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) seek a consultant to lead a project to develop a succinct, actionable guide to...
    Read Moreabout: Request for Proposal: Data and Analytics for Transformation
    • 11.21.22

    With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use

    • by AIR
    The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), EDUCAUSE, and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundatio...
    Read Moreabout: With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use
  • AIR, EDUCAUSE, NACUBO
    • Media Release
    • 11.21.22

    With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use

    • by AIR, EDUCAUSE, NACUBO
    Funding from the Gates Foundation will support student success effortsNovember 21, 2022 (Washington, DC)—The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), EDUCAUSE, and the National Association of College and Unive...
    Read Moreabout: With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use
  • Annual Reporting
    • Featured
    • 10.28.22

    An IR Offices Reflection: Responding to Annual Reporting for Year Two of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF)

    • by Melanie S. Simpson, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Recently, the federal government asked institutions that received Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) funding to report data for year two of the reporting cycle. The request this year included multiple items t...
    Read Moreabout: An IR Offices Reflection: Responding to Annual Reporting for Year Two of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF)
  • Performance Management and Professional Development
    • Featured
    • 10.28.22

    Good Institutional Research Is More About Managing People than Managing Data

    • by Justin C. Shepherd, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost of Institutional Research & Decision Support, Emory University
    Performance management and professional development are frequently discussed interchangeably, yet one is a reflection on the past while the other is forward looking. When I think of performance management, I think ab...
    Read Moreabout: Good Institutional Research Is More About Managing People than Managing Data
    • Featured
    • 10.28.22

    Creating a Common Data Language on Campus

    • by Eric Godin, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, Hodges University
    A former provost, who is now a college president, told me that IR is “The Keeper of Truth.” This seems logical, as IR should be the point of contact for both internal data analysis and external data repor...
    Read Moreabout: Creating a Common Data Language on Campus
  • 1 (current)
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • »
   
  1. Home
  2. Article
AIR Association for Institutional Research

Copyright © Association for Institutional Research. All Rights Reserved.

  • ​Treatment of Stakeholders
  • ​Privacy Policy
  • Payment Option Guidelines
  • Vision and Mission
  • Statement on Racial Injustice
  • AIR Statement of Ethical Principles
  • Calendar
  • Job Board
  • MyLearning Portal
  • Site Map

Glad you're here,

Log out

Log in

Contact us air@airweb.org
Phone: 850-385-4155
Fax: 850-385-5180
Connect with us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • airhub AIR Hub

Log Out