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    • Featured
    • 01.27.23

    The Provision of PII Data on Faculty and Staff by Institutional Researchers

    • by Beverly R. King, Director of Institutional Research, East Carolina University
    One of the primary responsibilities of offices of Institutional Research (IR) is responding to ad hoc requests for data on students, faculty, and staff at their institutions. Some of these ad hoc requests are for persona...
    Read Moreabout: The Provision of PII Data on Faculty and Staff by Institutional Researchers
    • Featured
    • 01.27.23

    Conducting Generalizability Studies with Unbalanced Data

    • by Paul W. Sturgis, Statistical Analyst, University of Central Florida College of Medicine
    In a recently published article in AIR Professional File (Sturgis, Marchand, Miller, Xu, and Castiglioni, 2022), I, along with my co-authors, introduce generalizability theory (G-theory) to institutional research (IR) pr...
    Read Moreabout: Conducting Generalizability Studies with Unbalanced Data
  • Thank You!
    • 12.19.22

    A Message from Christine M. Keller, Ph.D., AIR Executive Director & CEO

    • by AIR
    As we enter these final days of 2022, I extend warm greetings to the AIR community. It is a time of year to celebrate, to appreciate, and to anticipate. And as I reflect back on the last year at AIR, we have much to cele...
    Read Moreabout: A Message from Christine M. Keller, Ph.D., AIR Executive Director & CEO
    • 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
  • Tech Tip A. Nelson
    • Tech Tips
    • 10.27.22

    Five Steps to Standardizing IPEDS Data Access at Your Institution

    • by Adam Ross Nelson, Data Scientist, Independent Consultant
    IntroductionThis eAIR Tech Tip provides advice for institutional researchers who utilize Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data for benchmarking, look-back, market, and similar landscape analyses. Wi...
    Read Moreabout: Five Steps to Standardizing IPEDS Data Access at Your Institution
    • Tech Tips
    • 10.27.22

    Building Higher Education Comparison Groups: A Data Science Informed Approach

    • by Adam Ross Nelson
    Distance measures are an important component of many techniques found used throughout data science. Distance measures are any measure that can help us quantify the distance between two points in any given coordinate syst...
    Read Moreabout: Building Higher Education Comparison Groups: A Data Science Informed Approach
  • 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

    IR Focus Group Opportunity: Understanding Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments in Service of Equity

    • by AIR
    Institutional researchers (IR) are invited to participate in a recently launched study, Understanding Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments in Service of Equity. In particular, IR professionals are asked to partici...
    Read Moreabout: IR Focus Group Opportunity: Understanding Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments in Service of Equity
    • 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
  • Junelyn Peeples
    • Board Corner
    • 08.08.22

    Farewell, So Long

    • by Junelyn Peeples, Immediate Past President
    Dear AIR Colleagues, By the time you read this, the changing of the guard will have taken place, and I must bid you farewell as AIR President. Orientation, training, a couple dozen board meetings, opportunities to engage...
    Read Moreabout: Farewell, So Long
    • 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
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