It is no longer business as usual for institutional researchers when creating metrics that describe student access, progress, and success. Policymakers, media, and the public are asking complex questions pertaining to s...

January 21, 2020 (Tallahassee, FL) — Today, the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) published the AIR Statement of Ethical Principles, an expression of integrity, professionalism, and fairness intended to ...

eAIR caught up with Tom Hahn, Director of Research and Program Evaluation at the Institute for Engaged Learning at IUPUI. The Research Academy specializes in engaged learning and fosters a welcoming space in which partic...

The recently released book Data Strategy in Colleges and Universities: From Understanding to Implementation (Routledge, 2019), edited by AIR member Kristina Powers, features a chapter contributed by AIR staff members L...

Kelli Armstrong is now President of Salve Regina University. Jayne Perkins Brown, Julie Carpenter-Hubin, and Robert Zhang are now AIR emeritus members. Daisy Grewal is now a Senior Research Scientist...

Eight years ago, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) launched on online system of annual reporting and analytics for our member graduate schools and programs. Members were eager to stop repor...

Founded in 1919, AUC is a leading English-language, American-accredited institution of higher education and center of intellectual, social, and cultural life of the Arab world. Its community of students, parents, faculty...

Dear Erin: With the changing role of IR, how do we as IR professionals move from data providers to data storytellers? I think the thing to keep in mind is that the role of IR is not necessarily changing, but rather it&rs...

Reports & Tools New Resource Explains Free College Terminology Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) has released a new resource on free college. Free College 101 defines the terms that ar...

We are grateful for you, our AIR members and Affiliated Organizations, for being engaged professionals. Whether it be presenting at conferences, contributing reports and publications, volunteering and participating in A...

The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) is seeking research proposals that advance the field’s collective understanding of state authorization efforts. With generous financial support from...

Just as each college or university is unique, it seems reasonable to think that the use of data within each department or office at an institution is also distinctive, and perhaps even dissimilar from the work of other p...

During the last week of October, three college-access nonprofits from across the country pitched to a panel of judges at the 2nd-annual Evergreen National Education Prize Finalist Pitch Competition and Aw...

In a previous piece titled “Big Data and the Problem of Bias in Higher Education,” I wrote about the increasing use of big data within higher education used to help us better understand and improve student s...

Henry Alphin Jr. is now Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives and Operations, EMI Advisors, LLC. Robert H. Fenske, the first AIR Forum Chair and one of the first members of the Publications Committee, passed away las...

Since my last article, the AIR Board of Directors has continued to demonstrate our commitment to membership connection and ensure the association’s professional relevance through two leadership initiatives: reconv...

Dear Suzanne: What is IR's role in expanding the data culture on campus in regard to engaging campus users and supporting a culture of data inquiry, while building the sustainability and capacity of IR? Data analytics ar...

eAIR caught up with Tony Parandi, Director of Institutional Research, Indiana Wesleyan University, to chat about his career in IR and adapting to meet increased demands for external reporting and internal analytics....

Humboldt State University (HSU) is one of 23 campuses in the nation’s largest four-year university system, the California State University (CSU) system. The CSU Chancellor’s Office has broadly described a bot...

I have been working on planning a conference for an organization and need to create a daily agenda. In the past, this task would be achieved by using some combination of cutting, pasting, and filling within Excel. Recent...