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Journal and partner book discounts are back! Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals and books. Discounted journals include: Assessment Update Journal of ...

The AIR National Survey of IR Offices has collected data from over 1,000 IR offices on metrics such as staffing, compensation, work produced, and clients served. Complete the survey by June 30, 2019, to take advant...

Given that a picture is worth 1,000 words, there will be occasions when you want to make your data visualization show more than just a standard chart. Microsoft Excel offers an easy way to address this by producing a com...

University of Cincinnati students often take classes offered at other UC campuses and vice versa.  UC Blue Ash regional campus administrators and academic chairs wanted to better understand how many UCBA students we...

A summary of the 2019 Enterprise Summit: Analytics “The greatest potential for building effective institutional research is leveraging talent across the institution.” (from the Statement of Aspirational Pract...

eAIR recently spoke with Barrie Fitzgerald, Director of Institutional Research, Valdosta State University, about juggling full-time work and graduate school, advice for first-time Forum attendees, being an IR leader...

Dear Timothy: In my office we have recently been discussing how analytics is changing IR. Some see it as getting too much into the weeds and one coworker said it felt like we were "telling people what to do." ...

Authors who submit materials to AIR publications receive feedback from AIR members. Thank you to the following individuals who reviewed manuscripts submitted for the spring 2019 volume of The AIR Professional File: Doug ...

Michelle Arrington has retired as Associate Provost for Institutional Research from University of Southern Mississippi. Megan Bolter is now Assistant Director of Institutional Research and Decision Support at Ball State ...

Reports & Tools A Crisis in Confidence in Higher Ed (Angela Henderson) This report examines possible factors impacting Gallup’s finding that confidence in higher education in the U.S. has decreased significantl...

It is hard for me to believe that in a matter of weeks the iconic “blue bear” will be peeking into the Denver Convention Center watching over the AIR Forum! I am excited to be returning to the Mile-High City ...

Check out the latest IR and higher education journal news. April eAIR highlights content for the Journal of Higher Education (JHE) and the Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition. The latest art...

eAIR recently caught up with Tricia Wang to talk about integrating thick data into the work of higher education professionals. Tricia, a global tech ethnographer who began her career as a documentary ...

Reports & Tools The State of Higher Education in 2019 (Angela Henderson) This report from Grant Thornton provides insights, examples, and action steps to encourage innovative thinking in higher education institution...

The tidyverse is a set of tools in the programming language, R, for data wrangling, modelling, and visualization. There are a number of functions that allow data to be “read in” from multiple formats, transfo...

Dear Bill: I’ve noticed that leaders on many campuses perceive IR as being “too busy” to conduct the kinds of studies needed to understand the effectiveness of certain programs. Others might just percei...

Stephanie Bushey has retired from Hofstra University. Ronald Durnford has retired as Vice President for Planning, Institutional Research, and Assessment from Xavier University of Louisiana. Lisa Fitzgerald has retired as...

eAIR recently spoke with Laura Bageant, AVP Data & Analytics, University of North Carolina System, about data, analytics, and using dashboards for data analysis and benchmarking. eAIR: As someone who didn't...

The Office of Assessment at the University of North Florida (UNF) uses infographics to succinctly visualize student engagement and success data. We’ve found them to be a useful platform to share focused messages wi...

The U.S. institutional research office does not follow a common organizational structure. Each IR office evolved to serve the unique needs of their institution. However, there are a few information studies that a lot of ...