eAIR recently sat down with several members to find out how volunteering with the association has helped them grow their networks and engage in their professional roles. As a bonus, these members shared useful tips for f...

To date, 1,153 institutions participated in the 2018 National Survey of IR Offices. In a series of webinars this fall, Darlena Jones shares summary results from the survey:  October 3 Structuring and Financing the...

Thank you to Eric Atchison and Carolyn Mata for presenting IPEDS Coordination: Several State Perspectives at the 1st IPEDS Educator web conference for the 2019-20 contract cycle, held 8/26. Participants got to hear from ...

Humboldt State University is one of 23 campuses in the nation’s largest four-year university system, the California State University system. While a formal office of Institutional Research was only founded in 2009,...

Figure 1. Ethnicity Table The columns I used for the chart were Ethnicity, Georgia Percentage Positive, Georgia Percentage, and College Percentage (Figure 2). Excel 2016 is the software used to construct the chart. The ...

Reports & Tools IES Director’s Biennial Report to Congress (FY 2017-18) The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has released their Director’s Biennial Report to Congress for Fiscal Years 2017–18. ...

As we transition to a new academic year, let me extend well wishes for success. AIR leadership has several upcoming events that will require membership participation and engagement. Briefly, I would like to highlight two...

Now Available: U.S. News Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files U.S. News is again providing, at no cost to institutional researchers, Excel spreadsheets with ranking data that appear in the main ranking...

David Crook has retired as University Dean for Institutional Research and Assessment from the CUNY System Office. Tammie Cumming is now Associate Provost, Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at CUNY ...

Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals. This edition of eAIR Journal News highlights The Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition call fo...

Dear Meihua: At my institution we are focusing more on student success as it relates to curriculum. I have heard about a “synergetic combo” and a “toxic combo.” Can you define those terms and disc...

eAIR spoke with Iryna Johnson, Associate Director for Analytics, Auburn University about the Forum call for proposals, attending the Forum for the first time, and the intrinsic value of AIR membership.   e...

“If you want to go fast you should go alone, but if you want to go far, you should go together.” – Source unknown. I am a strong believer in the power of collective action to achieve a common goal and t...

In mid-September, more than 1000 IR professionals will receive an NSLVE report from Tufts’ Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE). Each tailored report contains your students’ aggregate voter r...

Have you ever wondered how the AIR Board of Directors (Board) and the staff of the Executive Office (EO) interact with one another and what they accomplish? The Board and EO have a symbiotic relationship that is based o...

It’s challenging to be the director of an IR office. How many staff should you have? What kinds of work should those staff do? What roles should those staff be in? This month, we look at the staff roles within an I...

Reports & Tools Colleges’ Use of Big Data for Tracking Students to Boost Graduation Rates Comes at a Cost (Angela Henderson) This report from Hechinger explores the relationship between using predictive analyti...

There are usually some of the same variables (gender, birthdate, etc.) included in multiple data files that your office collects or maintains. Instead of duplicating the syntax in the syntax file for each data file, a sm...

This visual display focuses on predicting enrollment of admitted applicants depending on the amount of a scholarship offer. Predictions are visualized using the dashboard with a possibility to explore "what if" scenarios...

Keep current with the latest news from influential IR, assessment, and higher education journals. This edition of eAIR Journal News covers the latest Innovative Higher Education (IHE) issue with a handy editor's tip. The...