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Associations Release Six Steps to Harness Analytics and Save Higher Education
AIR, EDUCAUSE, and NACUBO collaborate on new statement for college and university leaders August 23, 2019 (Washington, DC) – In a collective call-to-action for colleges and universities, the Association for Institu...Read Moreabout: Associations Release Six Steps to Harness Analytics and Save Higher Education -
2018-2019 Annual Report Released
Tallahassee, Fla. – (August 9, 2019) – AIR is pleased to present the 2018-2019 Annual Report, now available for download. Highlighting some of the important work the association has accomplished d...Read Moreabout: 2018-2019 Annual Report Released -
Quarterly Update from the Board
This article represents the first of periodic updates, which highlight the AIR Board of Director’s initiatives to be pursued for the 2019-2020 program year. During the next four months, the Board will focus on thr...Read Moreabout: Quarterly Update from the Board -
Latest Journal News
Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals. This month, you'll find a call for the Editor of the Community College Review (CCR) journal and the latest breaking articl...Read Moreabout: Latest Journal News -
Office Leader – Time Allocation
How do you spend your day-to-day time? Do your colleagues allocate the same time? The 2018 National Survey of IR Offices asked office leaders to estimate the percentage of their time to various activities. Using demonstr...Read Moreabout: Office Leader – Time Allocation -
AIR Membership: No Greater Return on Investment
eAIR recently caught up with Sandi Bramblett, Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research & Enterprise Data Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, and former AIR Board member, about IR, her current...Read Moreabout: AIR Membership: No Greater Return on Investment -
Using Self-service Data to Inform Decision Making
Dear Ron: We are implementing efforts to better push self-service data to our users. Do you have tips or advice on how they might use the data to inform decision making? I’m glad you asked! That is a question that ...Read Moreabout: Using Self-service Data to Inform Decision Making -
Using the Listagg Function in SQL
Our institutional research analysts frequently extract data and modify the structure of data using SQL to suit the needs of data consumers or to ease analysis. Often, we need to aggregate tables containing multiple rows ...Read Moreabout: Using the Listagg Function in SQL -
Digital Fact Book: From Data to Storytelling
Each year, most Institutional Research (IR) offices publish a Fact Book containing all the facts and figures pertaining to their institutions for distribution to board members, the leadership team, faculty, staff, and st...Read Moreabout: Digital Fact Book: From Data to Storytelling -
Skills IR Professionals Need to Succeed
Today’s IR professionals need everything from an ability to interpret data to an understanding of how others think. This article focuses on the second part of the Impact Session from the 2019 AIR Forum, An Exp...Read Moreabout: Skills IR Professionals Need to Succeed -
Thank You to the AIR Community
Thank you to the outstanding IR in the Know contributors who submitted articles during the second quarter of 2019: Eric Atchison, Angela Henderson, and Casey Kerins. Thank you to Archie Cubarrubia for presenting U...Read Moreabout: Thank You to the AIR Community -
Colleague News
Jeff Seybert, a longtime AIR member, passed away on June 19. Jeff was a giant in the field of institutional research, especially as it affected community colleges. He was a past recipient of the John Stecklein Distinguis...Read Moreabout: Colleague News -
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 -
Benchmarking the IR Office
Why benchmark? A benchmarking project allows you to access credible information about your peer or aspirant IR Offices. That information can help you understand if your office is performing efficiently and effectively, a...Read Moreabout: Benchmarking the IR Office -
An Exploration: What is IR?
Institutional research (IR) professionals and scholars have continuously revisited the question “What is IR?” One explanation for the recurrent question is that the practice and discipline of IR continues to ...Read Moreabout: An Exploration: What is IR? -
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 -
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 -
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