Below you'll find the complete set of materials from the Program Accountability Reporting webinar: the full recording, the presentation slides, a curated Q&A summary organized by topic, and a list of resources mentio...

A summary of the latest IPEDS Technical Review Panel (TRP 72), IPEDS Data Quality: Practices, Strategies, and Structures to Support High-Quality Submissions, is now available for public review. The comment period remains...

A practical guide for researchers and Institutional Research (IR) professionals navigating the AI-assisted analysis landscapeAs universities increasingly provide access to large language models (LLMs) for faculty, studen...

Every year, Association for Institutional Research (AIR) members are encouraged to nominate themselves or a colleague for leadership opportunities. Yet many members hesitate—not because they lack the qualifications...

Qualitative analysis remains one of the most time-consuming tasks in institutional research. Generative AI tools can quickly synthesize large volumes of open-ended responses, but many IR professionals are understandably ...

Counting students at an institution sounds simple—until you actually try to do it. That’s what I thought when I started my Institutional Research (IR) career. I quickly learned just how many ways a “stu...

I work at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development as the Reporting and Systems Manager. I help our community make data-driven decisions including implementing new technological infrastructure a...

The 2020s have been transformative for Institutional Research (IR). In previous decades, training an IR analyst to support the fall enrollment census alone may have covered 80% of the job. Today, term snapshots are no lo...

The deadline for institutions to review and confirm their ACTS Quality Control (QC) reports has been extended to August 12, 2026 (previously July 31). Institutions should log in to the IPEDS collection system to review t...

Institutions preparing for the 2026 Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) reporting cycle will encounter several important reporting changes as the U.S. Department of Education implements provision...

Introduction: Data as a practical guide for student supportHigher education institutions now have access to far more timely and actionable student data than even a decade ago. The challenge is no longer whether informati...

Have you tried using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini, and been underwhelmed? You might have found the responses generic, hallucinatory, or unusable without significant rewriting. Did you know most la...

A month out from AIR Forum, I am still drawing on the many takeaways from presentations and conversations, sharing them across my campus and beyond. Being at Forum this year, especially in Washington D.C., has never felt...

I am part of a team of five folks at Butler; each of us has certain areas we focus on. My primary areas of responsibility include internal employee data (both staff and faculty) along with any external reporting based on...

In today’s rapidly changing higher education landscape, making decisions grounded in accurate, timely data is essential. Competition for enrollment, scrutiny of outcomes and student ROI, budget constraints, regulat...

Data Management is a suite of features designed to help organizations manage Tableau content and data assets within Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud environments. As of September 16, 2024, Data Management is integrated i...

Each year, AIR recognizes individuals whose scholarship, leadership, and service have advanced the field of institutional research and strengthened the community that supports it. These honors carry particular significan...

AIR recently submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell, including...

 The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) is pleased to announce the renaming of the AIR Rising Star Award as the Edward L. Delaney, Jr. Rising Star Award & Scholarship. This designation honors the life,...

Hello everyone,Over the past two years, I have taken every opportunity to exhort you to join our volunteer leadership at AIR, and for good reason. My last three years as a Board member, in particular the last two as the ...