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...

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...

Reports & Tools How Will COVID-19 Affect Community College Funding? This report from the Community College Research Center analyzes IPEDS data from similar economic crises to consider how COVID-19 as a public health...

Pensacola State College is comprised of multiple campuses and centers that serve students in Northwest Florida. To visualize the total Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) of each campus and center, the Office of Institutional Res...

Dear Nic: How can we effectively use data to develop nimble plans that help us move forward through a crisis, such as a pandemic? This is a good question and really important right now, as we face the effects of COVID-19...

Does your office software impact your work efficiency? In the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we asked what types of software (beyond Microsoft Office) the IR/IE office used and the degree to which it improved ef...

New RP Group Student Perspectives Report Now more than ever, student voices are paramount to informing colleges' COVID crisis response and ensuring students can continue progressing along their higher ed j...

Data from a recent survey of the AIR community indicate that working from home and surges in the number of data requests on short timelines are the pandemic’s greatest impacts on IR. Other challenges include re...

Each year, AIR recognizes and celebrates individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the success of the association and the profession through their leadership, service, and scholarship. The three prestigio...

Shama Akhtar is now Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Goucher College. Jennifer Causey is now a Research Associate at National Student Clearinghouse. Catherine Garcia is now Executive Director of Institutiona...

Society has been moving toward greater reliance on technology, immediate data, and predictive analytics in nearly every aspect of life. This has become especially noticeable this year as medical experts, government leade...

As we become accustomed to working from home and/or the skeleton crews in our offices, many of us have adjusted our definition of what it means to connect with colleagues and keep a seat at the table to have our voices h...

One of IR’s crucial roles is ensuring the quality of data used to make strategic decisions on campus. This work will be highlighted by a new survey from the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) at ...

Reports & Tools Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis, Part II A new survey report (A New Survey of College and University Presidents) from Inside Higher Ed on the top concerns surrounding COVID-19 has been released. The...

As you may be aware, the annual AIR Forum scheduled for later this month in New Orleans was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, AIR is hosting a premier event in its place – a virtual conference for hig...

About a week into this adventure, I felt like I had a new job—and in some ways that was true. But in other ways, I was doing the same work but toward different purposes. Still administering surveys, still producing...

This month, we provide an overview of a data governance process. Have you ever spent a great deal of time looking through documents, databases, or files on your shared network based on a request you receive? You kno...

Each year, our Institutional Effectiveness (IE) office publishes an annual report for our Academic Affairs unit, which is one of five administrative divisions at Delaware State University. The Office of the Provost and E...

If you’re looking for an excuse nowadays to spend more time inside on a computer, I recommend visiting the subreddit r/dataisbeautiful. Users submit all kinds of visualizations along with details of how they were c...

Academic requirements of the office leader vary by the institution and the role that the office leader plays at their institution. In general, post-graduate degrees are commonplace among office leaders. We asked off...