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Register Now for the AIR Virtual Annual Business Meeting
Each year, the AIR Board of Directors convenes members at an official business meeting to provide an overview of important association activities as required by our constitution and bylaws. Normally, this meeting coincid...Read Moreabout: Register Now for the AIR Virtual Annual Business Meeting -
Data Governance: Who Are the Stakeholders?
This month, we discuss who the key data governance stakeholders are and how to engage them effectively. A stakeholder in any data governance program is an individual or group that could affect or be affected by the ...Read Moreabout: Data Governance: Who Are the Stakeholders? -
Colleague News
Higher Education Lee Allard is now Director of Institutional Research at Daemen College. Felice Billups, AIR member and Professor in the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at Johnson & Wales University...Read Moreabout: Colleague News -
College Readiness Data Informs Student Support Services
eAIR caught up with Sheila Steiner, Director of Assessment & Accreditation, Saint Martin’s University, who answered these questions as they relate to the current pandemic: What determines college read...Read Moreabout: College Readiness Data Informs Student Support Services -
Postsecondary Data GPS Gives Data Users Direction
Have you ever wondered how to increase data use beyond compliance? Have you struggled to connect your institution’s data with student success initiatives? After hearing from institutions looking to improve dat...Read Moreabout: Postsecondary Data GPS Gives Data Users Direction -
Technical Colleges and Perkins Data
A huge topic for our technical colleges has been the re-authorization of the Perkins law. This law brought substantial changes to procedures for requesting funds. One of the most significant changes was the implementatio...Read Moreabout: Technical Colleges and Perkins Data -
How COVID-19 Is Impacting IR/IE Right Now
Due to COVID-19, our working environments have radically changed. During this unprecedented time, we are leaning on our neighbors to help us through various challenges. Fortunately, I was able to reach out to some amazin...Read Moreabout: How COVID-19 Is Impacting IR/IE Right Now -
Exploring the Presidential Pipeline
Reports & Tools Exploring the Presidential Pipeline in CUPA-HR Administrators in Higher Education Annual Report As colleges and universities strive to create a more equitable and representative workforce, there has b...Read Moreabout: Exploring the Presidential Pipeline -
Evergreen Prize 2020
Evergreen has announced that the Evergreen Prize is back for the third year. The annual prize identifies and helps scale programs that best assist low income youth with accessing and completing college and voca...Read Moreabout: Evergreen Prize 2020 -
Power up Excel
Whether you're new to Excel or breathe advanced formulae, there are always shortcuts and useful features to be discovered. Have you ever wanted a distinct count in pivot tables or an easier way to format complex workbook...Read Moreabout: Power up Excel -
Institutions Look at Potential Financial Implications of the Pandemic
Many universities have become concerned that the COVID-19 pandemic will affect finances. In a recent survey of college presidents and chancellors about their coronavirus concerns, 87% revealed that they were very or some...Read Moreabout: Institutions Look at Potential Financial Implications of the Pandemic -
Three Universities, Six Examples of Innovative Data
"Institutions know they need to innovate to achieve a competitive advantage in today’s complex marketplace, and almost none of today’s innovation can happen without data and technology.” -- Susan Grajek...Read Moreabout: Three Universities, Six Examples of Innovative Data -
Advanced Analytics on a Budget
We all know the value that our data can bring to our organizations. Some of us who are part of small institutional research offices must focus a great deal of our time on mandated reporting needs and critical ad hoc data...Read Moreabout: Advanced Analytics on a Budget -
Strategic Plan Models: Making an Informed Selection
In recent decades, the iterative development and publication of strategic plans has become a nearly universal practice in higher education. This universality has been accompanied by a predictable mediocrity in what one m...Read Moreabout: Strategic Plan Models: Making an Informed Selection -
AIR Forum Canceled, Details on Virtual Event to Come
Earlier this week, AIR announced the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 AIR Forum, scheduled for May 25–29 in New Orleans, including pre-/post-conference education. The cancellation decision was not made lightly...Read Moreabout: AIR Forum Canceled, Details on Virtual Event to Come -
Higher Education Needs Data Governance
This month, the authors discuss why data governance is needed in higher education. Data are everywhere, and higher education has more than its fair share. From student data to business data to research data, there a...Read Moreabout: Higher Education Needs Data Governance -
Percontor Offers RISC Survey, AccessLex Grant Deadline Extended
Percontor Offers RISC Survey Free of Charge Percontor is offering the RISC Survey at no charge to colleges and universities for the fall 2020 and spring 2021 administrations. In these difficult times, Percontor wants to ...Read Moreabout: Percontor Offers RISC Survey, AccessLex Grant Deadline Extended -
COVID-19: Institutions Respond and Act
COVID-19 has become a global pandemic and has caused disruption to life as we know it. As of April 2, at least 216,000 cases of the virus had been reported in the U.S. alone. Colleges and universities are responding...Read Moreabout: COVID-19: Institutions Respond and Act -
The Next Big Thing for IR: The Data Lake
Dear Sonia: My IR director wants us to create a data management system that can house a data lake. What is a data lake and how can we accomplish this? For institutional research and chief data officers (CDOs), one of th...Read Moreabout: The Next Big Thing for IR: The Data Lake -
Newly Elected Officers Share Vision
AIR elections, which closed earlier this month, produced a dynamic set of new officers who are looking toward the future of higher education and our association. eAIR caught up with these members and posed the ...Read Moreabout: Newly Elected Officers Share Vision