Last month, we looked at the average number of hours spent by directors and found that data collection and management occupied the largest segment of time, followed closely by analyzing those data and disseminating resul...

Tallahassee, Fla. — (April 13, 2018) — The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today a new webinar: Encore: Findings from the Enterprise IT Summit 2018. The 2018 Enterprise IT Sum...

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is outside-of-class study sessions facilitated by student peers to enhance learning in traditionally difficult gateway courses, such as first-year math, science, logic, or statistical method...

Collaboration. It’s what’s for dinner. Well, maybe it’s not edible, but it is necessary for IR and our institutions to be strong and healthy.  While that’s not news to many of us working in ...

Tallahassee, Fla. — (March 22, 2018) —The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today the formation of a new Data Policy Advisory Group.   This new and exciting initiative is b...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AccessLex Institute Announces Grant Winners Washington, D.C. (March 20, 2018) - AccessLex Institute and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) have announced the winners of more than $2...

How do you spend your days in the IR Office? We asked participants of the National Survey of IR Offices to report how the Director of the IR Office and other IR professional staff (e.g., analysts, technical staff, etc.) ...

On March 13, 2018, AIR partnered with the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and the American Council on Education (ACE) to host Leadership in Enhancing Postsecondary Data Policy and Analytics to Improve Studen...

This collaboration between AIR, EDUCAUSE, and NACUBO, the Enterprise IT summit, March 5–7, 2018, in Orlando, Florida, brought together IT and finance leaders to discuss various ways to work together to address inst...

In the National Survey of IR Offices Report (free PDF report), we grouped institutions by their task “personality” and identified three patterns: Broad (IR Offices who are engaged in nearly every data in...

Tallahassee, Fla. — (February 6, 2018) —The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today that it will host a live discussion with Jeremy Smith, the author of Epic...

When we report large numbers (especially related to financials), the default number formatting in Excel does not show up nicely in tables or charts, making it hard to read in a glance. One way to address this is to use c...

IR and IT have a close working relationships at most institutions. But, exactly, what does that relationship look like? Results from the National Survey of IR Offices shows that between 68% and 76% of IR Offices (dependi...

We’ve explored the number of professional IR staff in IR offices in previous Data Bites. This month, we'll look at the types of staff involved.  Based on what we learned from the 2016 National Survey...

In June, we explored the "personality" of IR Offices by sector and found that offices at public 4-year institutions were more likely to have broad responsibilities while private, not-for-profit, 4-year institutions were ...

October 12, 2017 – The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released new data today that provide a more comprehensive look at the proportion of college students who successfully complete a post...

AIR has been following the news about the recent natural disasters that occurred over the last week. To our colleagues who have been directly affected by Maria in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and the earthquakes i...

Every U.S. postsecondary institution that awards federal financial aid must submit data to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as part of the Integrated Postsecondary ...

AIR's Executive Director & CEO, Christine Keller, is quoted in this article, which asks: Can institutional researchers help colleges prove their value? Find out by visiting The Chronicle of Higher Education...

In this article (part of a series), AIR is mentioned as providing a "forum for professionals doing this work to discuss common concerns, stay on top of trends, share data as well as best practices, and post position...