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    • 11.28.22

    Request for Proposal: Data and Analytics for Transformation

    • by AIR
    The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), EDUCAUSE, and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) seek a consultant to lead a project to develop a succinct, actionable guide to...
    Read Moreabout: Request for Proposal: Data and Analytics for Transformation
    • 11.21.22

    With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use

    • by AIR
    The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), EDUCAUSE, and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundatio...
    Read Moreabout: With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use
  • AIR, EDUCAUSE, NACUBO
    • Media Release
    • 11.21.22

    With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use

    • by AIR, EDUCAUSE, NACUBO
    Funding from the Gates Foundation will support student success effortsNovember 21, 2022 (Washington, DC)—The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), EDUCAUSE, and the National Association of College and Unive...
    Read Moreabout: With $500,000 Grant, Higher Education Associations Will Help Colleges and Universities Accelerate Analytics Use
  • Annual Reporting
    • Featured
    • 10.28.22

    An IR Offices Reflection: Responding to Annual Reporting for Year Two of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF)

    • by Melanie S. Simpson, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Recently, the federal government asked institutions that received Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) funding to report data for year two of the reporting cycle. The request this year included multiple items t...
    Read Moreabout: An IR Offices Reflection: Responding to Annual Reporting for Year Two of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF)
  • Performance Management and Professional Development
    • Featured
    • 10.28.22

    Good Institutional Research Is More About Managing People than Managing Data

    • by Justin C. Shepherd, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost of Institutional Research & Decision Support, Emory University
    Performance management and professional development are frequently discussed interchangeably, yet one is a reflection on the past while the other is forward looking. When I think of performance management, I think ab...
    Read Moreabout: Good Institutional Research Is More About Managing People than Managing Data
    • Featured
    • 10.28.22

    Creating a Common Data Language on Campus

    • by Eric Godin, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, Hodges University
    A former provost, who is now a college president, told me that IR is “The Keeper of Truth.” This seems logical, as IR should be the point of contact for both internal data analysis and external data repor...
    Read Moreabout: Creating a Common Data Language on Campus
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    • Tech Tips
    • 10.28.22

    Using HTML Widgets for R to Create Interactive Reports

    • by Inger Bergom
    Institutional researchers are often tasked with synthesizing large amounts of data, perhaps by visualizing it in charts or summarizing it in tabular format. Allowing users to interact with these charts or tables by sorti...
    Read Moreabout: Using HTML Widgets for R to Create Interactive Reports
  • Karen Webber
    • Board Corner Board News
    • 10.28.22

    Seize the Day: AIR Board of Directors Updates

    • by Karen L. Webber, AIR President
    Summer passed by way too quickly!With many warm feelings remaining from the AIR Forum in June, we now gear up for a new academic year. As we move toward closing the pandemic (perhaps a wishful hope?), it is even clearer ...
    Read Moreabout: Seize the Day: AIR Board of Directors Updates
  • Bar chart showing Average IR Office Staff FTE by Total Institutional Enrollment
    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 10.27.22

    Average IR Office Staff FTE by Total Institutional Enrollment

    • by AIR
    Institutional data capacity is largely dependent on the IR Office. And the amount of information that an IR Office can produce is strongly tied to the size of that office. So, what drives the size of the IR Office? In sh...
    Read Moreabout: Average IR Office Staff FTE by Total Institutional Enrollment
    • Announcements
    • 09.22.22

    New Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files Available From U.S. News

    • by AIR
    U.S. News is providing, free of charge to any institutional researcher, Excel spreadsheets with ranking data that appear in the main rankings tables in the Best Colleges 2022-2023 Edition guide book. These spreadshe...
    Read Moreabout: New Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files Available From U.S. News
    • Announcements
    • 08.06.22

    AIR Graduate Student Members Can Now Vote in AIR Leadership Elections

    • by AIR
    The AIR Bylaws were updated by a vote of the members present at the AIR Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, June 8, in Phoenix. Following the 2021 AIR leadership elections, the 2020-2021 Nomination and Elections Commit...
    Read Moreabout: AIR Graduate Student Members Can Now Vote in AIR Leadership Elections
  • 5 Tips
    • Featured
    • 08.05.22

    5 Tips for Implementing a Data and Analytics Culture

    • by Georgia Mariani, SAS
    When I hear “data and analytics culture,” I immediately think of the work Jason Simon and his team are doing at the University of North Texas (UNT). Jason Simon, Ph.D., Associate Vice President of ...
    Read Moreabout: 5 Tips for Implementing a Data and Analytics Culture
  • Change Agents
    • Featured
    • 08.04.22

    IR Professionals as Change Agents

    • by Carolyn A. Wiley, Carolyn A. Wiley, Associate Vice President of Academic Instruction and Institutional Effectiveness, Northwest Mississippi Community College
    When I began working in the field of institutional research (IR) in 2010, my daily tasks consisted of completing some externally mandated reports and a few ad hoc internal requests. Today, there are daily data requests, ...
    Read Moreabout: IR Professionals as Change Agents
    • IR In The Know
    • 07.28.22

    Admissions Research Consortium Releases Report: New Evidence on Recent Changes in College Applications, Admissions, and Enrollments

    • by AIR
    The Admissions Research Consortium (ARC) aims to help colleges understand how the impacts of the pandemic are shaping their incoming classes, and how these impacts might continue to affect college performance outcomes in...
    Read Moreabout: Admissions Research Consortium Releases Report: New Evidence on Recent Changes in College Applications, Admissions, and Enrollments
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    • IR In The Know
    • 07.22.22

    CUPA-HR 2022 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey: Initial Results

    • by AIR
    New research from CUPA-HR shows that higher education institutions are in the midst of a talent crisis, as many staff, professionals and administrators are considering other employment opportunities due to dissatisfactio...
    Read Moreabout: CUPA-HR 2022 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey: Initial Results
    • IPEDS IPEDS/NCES IR In The Know
    • 06.29.22

    New Webpage and Blog Posts Provide Overview of Measuring Student Success in IPEDS

    • by AIR
    NCES has recently published a webpage providing information on the similarities and differences between the three IPEDS surveys components primarily focused on measuring student success: Graduation Rates (GR), Graduation...
    Read Moreabout: New Webpage and Blog Posts Provide Overview of Measuring Student Success in IPEDS
    • IR In The Know
    • 06.16.22

    NCES Launches Annual Condition of Education Report

    • by AIR
    The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) published the 2022 Condition of Education, which contains key indicators on all levels of education, labor force outcomes, and international comparisons. Dow...
    Read Moreabout: NCES Launches Annual Condition of Education Report
    • Featured
    • 06.10.22

    In Memoriam: Alexander Astin

    • by AIR
    The AIR community mourns the loss of Alexander Astin, who was a pioneer of student experience research and theories and professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies. He passed away May 18 ...
    Read Moreabout: In Memoriam: Alexander Astin
  • More Than Good Intentions
    • Featured
    • 02.11.22

    Why Good Intentions Aren’t Enough to Use Data Ethically

    • by Jeffrey Alan Johnson
    Significant ethical scandals are thankfully rare in institutional research and effectiveness (IR/IE). Every few years brings a case of an institution that has deliberately falsified data, usually data for external survey...
    Read Moreabout: Why Good Intentions Aren’t Enough to Use Data Ethically
  • Junelyn Peeples
    • Board Corner
    • 02.10.22

    Let’s Prioritize Democratic Civility

    • by Junelyn Peeples, AIR President
    Amid the election for our new AIR leaders, I think it is important as you contemplate who to vote for to reflect on the purpose of your vote. I fundamentally believe the leaders we choose are an image of our hope fo...
    Read Moreabout: Let’s Prioritize Democratic Civility
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