The 2019 AIR Forum in Denver was the educational event of the year for higher education professionals who support data-informed decision making. With over 300 sessions, there was something for every interest, learning s...

This article represents the first of periodic updates, which highlight the AIR Board of Director’s initiatives to be pursued for the 2019-2020 program year. During the next four months, the Board will focus on thr...

How do you spend your day-to-day time? Do your colleagues allocate the same time? The 2018 National Survey of IR Offices asked office leaders to estimate the percentage of their time to various activities. Using demonstr...

Reports & Tools Effect of Reduced Student Loan Borrowing on Academic Performance and Default: Evidence from a Loan Counseling Experiment This working paper from Annenberg Institute discusses the results of a study de...

eAIR recently caught up with Sandi Bramblett, Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research & Enterprise Data Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, and former AIR Board member, about IR, her current...

Dear Ron: We are implementing efforts to better push self-service data to our users. Do you have tips or advice on how they might use the data to inform decision making? I’m glad you asked! That is a question that ...

Our institutional research analysts frequently extract data and modify the structure of data using SQL to suit the needs of data consumers or to ease analysis. Often, we need to aggregate tables containing multiple rows ...

Each year, most Institutional Research (IR) offices publish a Fact Book containing all the facts and figures pertaining to their institutions for distribution to board members, the leadership team, faculty, staff, and st...

Today’s IR professionals need everything from an ability to interpret data to an understanding of how others think. This article focuses on the second part of the Impact Session from the 2019 AIR Forum, An Exp...

Thank you to the outstanding IR in the Know contributors who submitted articles during the second quarter of 2019: Eric Atchison, Angela Henderson, and Casey Kerins. Thank  you to Archie Cubarrubia for presenting U...

Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals. This month, you'll find a call for the Editor of the Community College Review (CCR) journal and the latest breaking articl...

Jeff Seybert, a longtime AIR member, passed away on June 19. Jeff was a giant in the field of institutional research, especially as it affected community colleges. He was a past recipient of the John Stecklein Distinguis...

Why benchmark? A benchmarking project allows you to access credible information about your peer or aspirant IR Offices. That information can help you understand if your office is performing efficiently and effectively, a...

Institutional research (IR) professionals and scholars have continuously revisited the question “What is IR?” One explanation for the recurrent question is that the practice and discipline of IR continues to ...

Since inception, the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) has demonstrated a strong commitment to creating and sustaining vigorous data informed decision cultures within postsecondary education. Remarkably, this...

eAIR caught up with 6 winners of the AIR Affiliated Organization Travel Grant for the 2019 AIR Forum to find out how receiving the award impacted them and to discover their biggest take-aways from the conference in Denve...

Dear Nancy: I heard that you changed who at an institution will receive NSLVE reports and that IR directors are now one of three report recipients. Can you tell me about the history of NSLVE, which institutions participa...

The new Financial Education Research Grant program provides funding for the development and implementation of innovative, high-impact financial education research. The central goal of the grant is to develop data, facts,...

Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals. This month, Journal News covers the latest edition of IHE.   The Journal of Innovative Higher Education (IHE) Th...

Christopher Antons has retired as Director of Institutional Research from Dominican University of California. Steve Buchele has retired from Ashesi University. Dan Gaichas is now Senior Research Analyst at Moraine Vall...