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Five Tips for Engaging Faculty
What are the best ways to engage faculty in IR projects? This question often starts good conversations that don’t always have clear answers. Of course, the answers differ among institutions and across the breadt...Read Moreabout: Five Tips for Engaging Faculty -
IPEDS Tutorials: Winter and Spring Collection Updated
AIR is pleased to announce updated IPEDS video tutorials for the 2020–21 winter and spring collection periods. Funded and approved by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statist...Read Moreabout: IPEDS Tutorials: Winter and Spring Collection Updated -
Average Years of Relevant Experience of Office Leader
How many years of relevant work experience should the leader of an IR/IE office have? From the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that the average office leader has spent 18 years working in higher e...Read Moreabout: Average Years of Relevant Experience of Office Leader -
IPEDS News
IPEDS TRP Summary Open for Comment Suggestions from IPEDS Technical Review Panel #60, “Monitoring Emerging Issues in Higher Education” are posted at https://edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP/Default.aspx and are cu...Read Moreabout: IPEDS News -
Podcast: Leading Improvements in Higher Education
AIR's Leah Ewing Ross and Stephan Cooley are featured in an episode of the Assessment Institute's new podcast series, Leading Improvements in Higher Education. Podcast episodes profile peopl...Read Moreabout: Podcast: Leading Improvements in Higher Education -
Case Study: Analytics at University of California, San Diego
AIR, EDUCAUSE, and NACUBO have published a case study highlighting how University of California, San Diego, is embracing the "Change with Analytics" statement, jointly released by the three associations, on its journey t...Read Moreabout: Case Study: Analytics at University of California, San Diego -
What’s in Store for IR? Three Predictions
In light of the changes and disruptions throughout 2020, what do you anticipate the future of IR to look like? There is no doubt that we have frequently heard people using superlatives to describe...Read Moreabout: What’s in Store for IR? Three Predictions -
Providing Actionable Data to Policy Makers
Rhyan had the opportunity to speak with Kate Akers, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Advanced Data Analytics at Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. Her office coordinates with ins...Read Moreabout: Providing Actionable Data to Policy Makers -
Leadership and Improvisational Comedy: The Same Rules Apply
There are so many leadership models out there—in the business literature, in the psychology literature, in education to name a few—and the models range from servant leadership to autocratic to charismat...Read Moreabout: Leadership and Improvisational Comedy: The Same Rules Apply -
The Trouble with Inconsistent or Incorrect Data: A Higher Education Perspective
Data governance structures in higher education can lead to a lack of understanding of the value of data within an institution. According to the most recent American College President Study, college and un...Read Moreabout: The Trouble with Inconsistent or Incorrect Data: A Higher Education Perspective -
Average FTE by Staff Role
We are often asked, "How many staff should our IR/IE office have?" In the 2018 AIR National Survey of Institutional Research Offices, we asked Office Leaders to provide the average staff FTE per type of staff role (see b...Read Moreabout: Average FTE by Staff Role -
Infographics as an Alternative
While the office routinely uses Tableau dashboards to share data with the campus community, there are also projects where an infographic may be a more visually compelling alternative. The office has invested in two tools...Read Moreabout: Infographics as an Alternative -
Leading and Managing During COVID-19
Sudden change and its impact on the way we go about business highlight existing challenges and yet can give rise to new opportunities, too. Learn MoreRead Moreabout: Leading and Managing During COVID-19 -
Using Images as Data Points in Excel Column Charts
There are many features in Microsoft Excel that go unnoticed. One of these features allows you to add flair to your data visualization with relative ease. When creating column charts in Excel, we often utilize the defaul...Read Moreabout: Using Images as Data Points in Excel Column Charts -
Colleague News
Debbie Dailey retired as Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at Birmingham-Southern College. Read more about her accomplishments by viewing her 2020 AIR Outstanding Service Award profile.  ...Read Moreabout: Colleague News -
Let’s Get Connected!
In these uncertain times you should know that you are not alone. Whether your concerns center around the pandemic, financial constraints, enrollment matters, or social unrest, AIR is here to support you and your work. As...Read Moreabout: Let’s Get Connected! -
Data Governance: An Implementation Checklist
One of my favorite books is “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande. In this book, Dr. Gawande explains that in our ever-changing world, many processes are complicated with inter-co...Read Moreabout: Data Governance: An Implementation Checklist -
IR’s Role in Promoting a Data-Driven Culture
Whether beginning a new position or continuing in an established one, data and information expectations for Institutional Research (IR) offices continue to expand at an accelerated pace. Open source availability of tools...Read Moreabout: IR’s Role in Promoting a Data-Driven Culture -
Excel Data from U.S. News
New Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files Available from U.S. News U.S. News is again providing, free of charge to any institutional researcher, Excel spreadsheets with ranking data that appear in the m...Read Moreabout: Excel Data from U.S. News -
How Can We Use the AIR Statement of Ethical Principles During the Current Crises Affecting Higher Education?
Organizational and institutional commitments to ethical action are indispensable at a time when our larger societal commitment to values-based action appears to be in the throes of a volatile period of fractiousness and ...Read Moreabout: How Can We Use the AIR Statement of Ethical Principles During the Current Crises Affecting Higher Education?