"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

This month, Journal News highlights the Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition. The latest issue Volume 32, No. 1, is now available online. To read an abstract for one of the articles...

Reports and Tools Completing College: State-Level Trends The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released updated data on completing college to include a report on state-level trends. The report highlight...

Rassoul Dastmozd has retired as President/CEO from Saint Paul College. Sarah Fitzgerald is now Assessment Librarian at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Nancy Floyd is now Senior System Director for Research at th...

As data professionals, we strive to do our work with integrity; however, applying ethical principles in practice isn’t always easy. AIR crafted a resource based on scenarios shared by data professionals to help nav...

In preparation for reaccreditation, Dartmouth’s Office of Institutional Research decided to transform student outcomes data from multiple sources and formats into compelling visualizations. The publicly-available v...

For information where online dashboards are not available, my office frequently uses pivot tables to visualize large sets of data for our stakeholders. Often times, we use the same data set for multiple visualizations li...

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Starting this month, Vaughn Hopkins, Executive Director of Institutional Research, Planning, and Analytics, Delaware State University and Henry Zheng, Senior Associate Vice President for Strategic Analytics, The Ohio Sta...

Reports & Tools Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce released a new report that ranks the return on investment of the 210 US liberal arts colleges. ROI of Liberal Arts Colleges:...

This month, check out an announcement about SEM Quarterly, published by AACRAO. SEMQ seeks manuscripts based on original research or practice in strategic enrollment management, demonstrating familiarity w...

You are the recipient of a data request from a program director who believes that poor performance by students from a local high school is threatening the program's reputation. As part of an effort to build support for r...