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Insights on Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy-making Act of 2018
Thanks to Tasha Dannenbring, Director of Assessment and Institutional Research, South Dakota Board of Regents, for providing the original idea and background for this article. The Foundations for Evidence-Based...Read Moreabout: Insights on Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy-making Act of 2018 -
2019 AccessLex Diversity Pipeline Research Grant Program
The Diversity Pipeline Research Grant Program awards grants to both execute and evaluate legal education diversity pipeline programs designed to help college students and/or college graduates from historically underrepre...Read Moreabout: 2019 AccessLex Diversity Pipeline Research Grant Program -
New Year, New Technology
eAIR recently spoke with Robinson Neidhardt, AIR Strategy Director of Technology, about the new website and user portal (as of January 2019), including what went on behind the scenes of this massive undertaking and ...Read Moreabout: New Year, New Technology -
Changing Tableau’s Repository Location
When you download Tableau Desktop, by default Tableau adds a file folder to your documents folder called “My Tableau Repository.” This folder contains data and options for your desktop application. In additio...Read Moreabout: Changing Tableau’s Repository Location -
Thank You to the AIR Community
Thank you to the AIR members who served on the Julia M. Duckwall and Edward Delaney Scholarship Review Committee. Your commitment to helping facilitate the professional growth and development of early career institutiona...Read Moreabout: Thank You to the AIR Community -
Completing College: A National View of Student Completion Rates
IR in the Know keeps you up to date on current and emerging issues related to higher education data collection, analyses, and reporting with a brief summary of topics and links to more detailed information. IR in th...Read Moreabout: Completing College: A National View of Student Completion Rates -
Who's on the Move?
JR Bjerklie is now Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at Hartwick College. Jennifer Blaylock is now Institutional Reporting & Research Coordinator for University of Arkansas-Pulaski Tech. Amy Filade...Read Moreabout: Who's on the Move? -
Data Bite February 2019
The Statement of Aspirational Practice for Institutional Research advances the need for executive level leadership of the data and analytics function at post-secondary institutions. The role is “broader than a trad...Read Moreabout: Data Bite February 2019 -
Graduate Student Retention and Graduation Rates
Dear Suzanne: Why should we pay attention to graduate student retention and graduation rates? When considering how to answer this question, I looked at two overall questions: First, how do institutions handle graduate st...Read Moreabout: Graduate Student Retention and Graduation Rates -
Analyzing Academic Program Fiscal Performance
Understanding the financial viability of academic programs is increasingly at the forefront of discussions at small colleges and universities. However, a simple analysis of direct gross profits can be misleading if not p...Read Moreabout: Analyzing Academic Program Fiscal Performance -
Replacing All Links in a Word Document
Preparing documents for an accreditation visit can be a stressful task. It involves many people and lots of last minute edits. Your institution may have thought ahead and prepared a website or intranet site where the ind...Read Moreabout: Replacing All Links in a Word Document -
Voting, Voting, Voting
Houston, we have a problem and need your help. I know you are busy, so I’ll make this short. Your vote for AIR leadership is important! I am requesting that you take the time to vote now. The future of institution...Read Moreabout: Voting, Voting, Voting -
Using the Criteria Field in Microsoft Access
Many of us use Microsoft Access to extract data from Banner or other enterprise systems, or to store data that doesn’t fit in our enterprise system. This tip provides an overview of the criteria field in Access que...Read Moreabout: Using the Criteria Field in Microsoft Access -
AIR, EDUCAUSE, & NACUBO to Host Enterprise Summit: Analytics 2019
Tallahassee, Fla. – (January 11, 2019) – AIR announced today that registration is open for the Enterprise Summit: Analytics 2019, hosted by AIR, EDUCAUSE, and NACUBO April 17–19, 2019 in Long Beach, Cal...Read Moreabout: AIR, EDUCAUSE, & NACUBO to Host Enterprise Summit: Analytics 2019 -
AIR and IHEP to Hold Policy Summit
Tallahassee, Fla. – (December 19, 2018) – The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today that AIR and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) will host an interactive policy summit ...Read Moreabout: AIR and IHEP to Hold Policy Summit -
Thanks to the AIR Community
Thank you to Nancy Copa, CEDS, for presenting Standardizing Postsecondary to Improve Data Quality this past November at the 4th IPEDS Educator web conference for the 2018...Read Moreabout: Thanks to the AIR Community -
Good Reads for the Higher Ed Professional
Check out the latest IR and higher education journal issues. February eAIR highlights content for Innovative Higher Education. The articles listed on the IHE website have recently been posted in “Online First...Read Moreabout: Good Reads for the Higher Ed Professional -
Tip for Tableau Users
Analysts use visualizations to deliver complicated information in an easy to understand way. Dual axis function in Tableau helps users to be efficient with a message of visualization. Another name for a chart with a dual...Read Moreabout: Tip for Tableau Users -
Creating a Clear Slicer Button in Excel
Scenario: You are developing an Excel dashboard based off a Pivot table or tables and you have multiple slicers to allow different combinations of data disaggregation, as in the image below. Everyone oohs and ahs un...Read Moreabout: Creating a Clear Slicer Button in Excel -
Keeping the AIR Community Informed
AIR welcomes brief announcements of interest to the IR and assessment communities, such as the release of a report, funding opportunities or a request for applications. Send your announcement to eAIR@airweb.org ...Read Moreabout: Keeping the AIR Community Informed