In this month's Data Bite, we explore the upcoming NSIRO survey. On June 21, 2018, over 350 people attended the AIR webinar, Using the National Survey of IR Offices Data to Inform Decision Making, with instructor Darlena...

Tallahassee, Fla. – (July 11, 2018) – The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today a new volume from Stylus Publishing, co-published with AIR and ACE. The ne...

In this month’s Data Bite, we explore the clients of the IR Office. We categorized the number of clients served by the IR Office and found that 17% of IR Offices serve a limited number of institutional offices/unit...

With the recent release of the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16) by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a common question posed by institutional researchers—especially tho...

Gaining access to data can be challenging for some IR Offices; especially Human Resources (HR) salary data. During the 2015 National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that, on average, 42% of IR Offices had unrestricted a...

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Cliff Adelman, a member of the AIR Board and a colleague and friend to many, passed away on May 3. Cliff will be remembered for his extensive work during his time with ...

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...