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Forum Provides Perspectives to Meet Professional Challenges
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...Read Moreabout: Forum Provides Perspectives to Meet Professional Challenges -
NSLVE Student Voting Data
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...Read Moreabout: NSLVE Student Voting Data -
2019 Financial Education Research Grant Program Accepting Applications
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,...Read Moreabout: 2019 Financial Education Research Grant Program Accepting Applications -
Latest Journal News
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...Read Moreabout: Latest Journal News -
Colleagues on the Move
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...Read Moreabout: Colleagues on the Move -
Degrees Awarded Dashboard: University of Southern Indiana
The Degrees Awarded dashboard is a section in our University Fact Book, which is powered by Tableau. The dashboard represents the number of degrees awarded each academic year and can be filtered by college, department, a...Read Moreabout: Degrees Awarded Dashboard: University of Southern Indiana -
Embedding Deeper Insights into Qualtrics Dashboard
As data scientists and university employees we cannot underestimate the value of extra time. Having said that, we also understand the importance and value behind spending time discovering data and communicating its insig...Read Moreabout: Embedding Deeper Insights into Qualtrics Dashboard -
Thank You to the AIR Community
Thank you to Nick Hillman who presented Making the IPEDS Students Financial Aid Survey Data Meaningful on May 23, 2019 at the 9th IPEDS Educator web conference for this contract cycle. The session discussed the IPEDS Stu...Read Moreabout: Thank You to the AIR Community -
The Condition of Education
Reports & Tools ‘Lost Decade’ Casts a Post-Recession Shadow on State Finances A recent issue brief by The Pew Charitable Trusts examines the lingering effects of the Great Recession on state economi...Read Moreabout: The Condition of Education -
Journal/Book Discounts Available
Journal and partner book discounts are back! Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals and books. Discounted journals include: Assessment Update Journal of ...Read Moreabout: Journal/Book Discounts Available -
National Survey of IR Offices
The AIR National Survey of IR Offices has collected data from over 1,000 IR offices on metrics such as staffing, compensation, work produced, and clients served. Complete the survey by June 30, 2019, to take advant...Read Moreabout: National Survey of IR Offices -
Combination Charts in Excel Made Easy
Given that a picture is worth 1,000 words, there will be occasions when you want to make your data visualization show more than just a standard chart. Microsoft Excel offers an easy way to address this by producing a com...Read Moreabout: Combination Charts in Excel Made Easy -
Course Enrollment Trends Dashboard
University of Cincinnati students often take classes offered at other UC campuses and vice versa. UC Blue Ash regional campus administrators and academic chairs wanted to better understand how many UCBA students we...Read Moreabout: Course Enrollment Trends Dashboard -
Using Data and Analytics to Improve Student Success
A summary of the 2019 Enterprise Summit: Analytics “The greatest potential for building effective institutional research is leveraging talent across the institution.” (from the Statement of Aspirational Pract...Read Moreabout: Using Data and Analytics to Improve Student Success -
Leading the Field in Service and Practice
eAIR recently spoke with Barrie Fitzgerald, Director of Institutional Research, Valdosta State University, about juggling full-time work and graduate school, advice for first-time Forum attendees, being an IR leader...Read Moreabout: Leading the Field in Service and Practice -
Analytics Highlight Actionable Insights to Inform Decisions
Dear Timothy: In my office we have recently been discussing how analytics is changing IR. Some see it as getting too much into the weeds and one coworker said it felt like we were "telling people what to do." ...Read Moreabout: Analytics Highlight Actionable Insights to Inform Decisions -
Thank You to the AIR Community
Authors who submit materials to AIR publications receive feedback from AIR members. Thank you to the following individuals who reviewed manuscripts submitted for the spring 2019 volume of The AIR Professional File: Doug ...Read Moreabout: Thank You to the AIR Community -
Who's on the Move?
Michelle Arrington has retired as Associate Provost for Institutional Research from University of Southern Mississippi. Megan Bolter is now Assistant Director of Institutional Research and Decision Support at Ball State ...Read Moreabout: Who's on the Move? -
The Changing Face of College
Reports & Tools A Crisis in Confidence in Higher Ed (Angela Henderson) This report examines possible factors impacting Gallup’s finding that confidence in higher education in the U.S. has decreased significantl...Read Moreabout: The Changing Face of College -
Will We See You in Denver?
It is hard for me to believe that in a matter of weeks the iconic “blue bear” will be peeking into the Denver Convention Center watching over the AIR Forum! I am excited to be returning to the Mile-High City ...Read Moreabout: Will We See You in Denver?