In January 2025, the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) joined a coalition of higher education associations in signing a letter led by the American Council on Education (ACE) to the U.S. Department of Education...

On December 13, 2024, several higher education associations sent a letter urging U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to extend the January 15, 2025, deadline for financial value transparency (FVT) and gainful empl...

As 2024 comes to a close, we at AIR extend our heartfelt gratitude to our members for your dedication and contributions to advance the work of our field and our association. This year has been a testament to the power of...

Several AIR publications and members are referenced in “The Data Informed Campus,” a new report from The Chronicle of Higher Education.The report explores how colleges and universities can effectively and eth...

Institutional research (IR) offices are often tasked with providing information about student progression towards a degree. The nature of the institutional data available lends itself to providing significant insigh...

Data science and advanced analytics capabilities generally refer to a set of methods, skills, and tools aimed at extracting actionable insights and knowledge from enterprise and external data resources to inform decision...

During the last three years, the Board has had a committee focused on thinking about the future of Institutional Research and Institutional Effectiveness (IR/IE) as a profession and how AIR can help all our members excel...

We caught up with Dr. Elizabeth Jach, guest editor of Building More Inclusive Systems for Who Counts, Special Issue of the AIR Professional File, Summer 2024, to learn more about the issue, how it came to be, and wha...

The AIR National Survey is a comprehensive, longitudinal study of the data function within U.S. higher education institutions. The current iteration of the survey is open now until January 15, 2025. Darlena Jones, Ph.D....

In November, AIR was accepted into the Washington Higher Education Secretariat (WHES), a group of more than 50 national associations and organizations that represent a broad spectrum of higher education interests in the ...

AIR is among more than 40 higher education associations expressing concerns to the U.S. Department of Education regarding the reporting requirements for the Financial Value Transparency (FVT) and Gainful Employment (GE) ...

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) seeks applications for Educators to contribute to our professional development and training programs in support of the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Postsecondary D...

Adrea Hernandez, Executive Director, Institutional Research, University of Notre DameBrent Drake, Senior Vice President for Operations and Research, The John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate...

AIR, alongside 13 other organizations, submitted a letter today asking Congress to restore the use of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) data for institutional analysis and improvement. The letter ...

In September, AIR published its 2023–2024 annual report. Over the past year, AIR has focused on the vital intersection of people and data, where we’ve worked to build both individual and institutional compete...

This piece was adapted from a presentation at the SouthEast SAS Users Group (SESUG) 2024 conference. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate is 4.3% and there are more than 8.2 million job open...

In 2007, I moved from a tenured faculty position into higher ed administration; namely, I became a Director of Institutional Research (IR). The move was sudden, and I had no prior knowledge of IR as a field and no prior ...

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) have become increasingly essential in enhancing college accessibility and degree completion for Hispanic students, particularly within community colleges (Laden, 2010). These HSIs ar...

In an announcement on September 13, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education extended the reporting deadline for institutions under the Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) rules to January 15, 2025...

As a part of its meeting on September 9, 2024, the Board reviewed the self-monitoring reports for the last two years. The Board focused its discussion on projects it would like to continue momentum on as well as elements...