Figure 1: STP Enrollment Dashboard Introduction Tim Miller, a blogger for DataViz at Data Science Central, recently offered suggestions for Creating a Great Information Dashboard. He nicely summarized some of the...

Surveys in higher education often target students at different levels of their degrees, which makes survey design tricky. Qualtrics has a useful feature to dynamically adapt survey questions to meet the survey requireme...

Reports & Tools   Do Open Educational Resources Improve Student Learning? Implications of the Access Hypothesis (Casey Kerins) This new study of Open Educational Resources (OERs) discuss the “Access hypoth...

When you walk around AIR’s annual conference, the Forum, or a regional or state affiliated organization’s conference, you will hear attendees talking about the wide variety of work their office does – b...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

AIR is pleased to collaborate with other higher education organizations to reach a wider audience of professionals working in fields related to data-informed decision making. These partnerships allow AIR to share its wor...

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...

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...

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 ...