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IR Is a Critical Partner in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work
Ellen had the opportunity to speak with Michael Benitez, Jr., Vice President for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Metropolitan State University, Denver. Over the past two decades, Benitez has served higher educat...Read Moreabout: IR Is a Critical Partner in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work -
Educating Our IR Offices on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Dear Suzanne: How can we better educate our IR offices on diversity, equity, and inclusion? This is a very important and timely topic. When thinking about this question for our institutional research colleagues, I decid...Read Moreabout: Educating Our IR Offices on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion -
Building a Collaborative Culture in Data Governance
In this installment on data governance, we discuss what it takes to build a collaborative data governance culture and why it is beneficial to the overall organization to help move its mission forward. To begin to d...Read Moreabout: Building a Collaborative Culture in Data Governance -
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
I cherish the opportunity to meet up with our IR colleagues at the AIR Forum every year. Who would have known at last year’s AIR Forum in Denver that we would not meet again this year in New Orleans? Although the c...Read Moreabout: Looking Back, Looking Ahead -
Predictors for Retention, Persistence, and Success
Many of us were unable to attend conferences this year, where we likely would have picked up on lessons to help us improve upon student and institutional success. Our aim is that this article will act as a substitute for...Read Moreabout: Predictors for Retention, Persistence, and Success -
Oklahoma State University Launches Innovative Contact Tracing Program
As universities across the U.S. wrestle with reopening plans, the time-tested public health measure of contact tracing will be essential to those efforts. Universities will need to quickly identify who a COVID-positive p...Read Moreabout: Oklahoma State University Launches Innovative Contact Tracing Program -
How Can We Be Antiracist Institutional Researchers?
Following the recent killing of George Floyd while he was in police custody, AIR released a Statement on Racial Injustice and announced a coffee chat focused on advancing equity and inclusion in highe...Read Moreabout: How Can We Be Antiracist Institutional Researchers? -
AIR Forum Virtual Provides Digital Learning and Networking Experience
For more information about the conference, visit the AIR Forum Virtual webpage. And don't miss the Best of AIR Forum Virtual 2020 thread on AIR Hub. What’s better than meeting colleagues in person for ou...Read Moreabout: AIR Forum Virtual Provides Digital Learning and Networking Experience -
Online Learning Provides Opportunity for Institutional Growth
eAIR caught up with Lee D. Lambert, J.D., Chancellor of Pima Community College, to talk about online learning, how COVID-19 has impacted of data use, automation and AI, and what enrollment may look like this fall. eAIR: ...Read Moreabout: Online Learning Provides Opportunity for Institutional Growth -
AIR Collaborates with ACHA and ACE on COVID-19 Virtual Summit: Planning for Now, Building for the Future
Now is the time to think creatively about keeping students, faculty, and staff physically and mentally healthy, and what campus health and well-being looks in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. In partnership with the Ameri...Read Moreabout: AIR Collaborates with ACHA and ACE on COVID-19 Virtual Summit: Planning for Now, Building for the Future -
AccessLex Institute Awards Nearly $225,000 in Grants
Washington, D.C. (June 17, 2020) - AccessLex Institute and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) have announced the winners of nearly $225,000 in grants awarded through their annual Research and Dissertation F...Read Moreabout: AccessLex Institute Awards Nearly $225,000 in Grants -
SAS Enterprise Guide: Reading, Importing, and Appending Multiple Text Files
In many circumstances, different text files are created with the same formats representing different groups or time periods. When multiple text files are held in a specific location, whether they are on a server, cloud, ...Read Moreabout: SAS Enterprise Guide: Reading, Importing, and Appending Multiple Text Files -
Colleague News
Christopher Call has retired as Vice President for Administration and Research, Planning, and Implementation from Westmont College. Mary Lou D’Allegro is now Associate Vice President for Institutional Eff...Read Moreabout: Colleague News -
Post COVID-19 Campus Planning and Decision Making: IR’s Seat at the Table
COVID-19 and the Post Pandemic Reopening Decision In March 2020, with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, higher education institutions nationally made a difficult decision to transition largely to online or virtual learni...Read Moreabout: Post COVID-19 Campus Planning and Decision Making: IR’s Seat at the Table -
LMS Data and the Relationship Between Student Engagement and Student Success Outcomes
The urgency of using analytics within higher education to make strategic decisions is greater now than ever given the COVID-19 pandemic. This fall, many institutions will continue to provide remote teaching to at least a...Read Moreabout: LMS Data and the Relationship Between Student Engagement and Student Success Outcomes -
COVID-19: The Impact on IR
Data from a recent AIR survey indicate that working from home and surges in the number of data requests on short timelines are the pandemic’s greatest impacts on IR. The disruption caused by the...Read Moreabout: COVID-19: The Impact on IR -
Data Governance Software and Tools
This month, we discuss the use of software and tools in the data governance process. As we indicated previously, data governance is an organizational transformation process, it is a cultural change process, and its succe...Read Moreabout: Data Governance Software and Tools -
Crossing the Rubicon of Reaccreditation: Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
eAIR had an opportunity to speak with Edward Hummingbird, Director of Institutional Research, Effectiveness and Planning at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI). Read on for insights on regaining accredit...Read Moreabout: Crossing the Rubicon of Reaccreditation: Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute -
Innovative Higher Education: Call for Papers
Innovative Higher Education features empirical research reports that examine innovations in higher education. The journal also features work on the effect of such innovations on teaching and student learning. Multidiscip...Read Moreabout: Innovative Higher Education: Call for Papers -
Ethical Use of Data for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
AIR is fully committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education through the ethical use of data. See the AIR Statement on Racial Injustice and the AIR Statement of Ethical Principl...Read Moreabout: Ethical Use of Data for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion