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Developing a Data Strategy for Your Institution: Steps for Best Practice
In today’s rapidly changing higher education landscape, making decisions grounded in accurate, timely data is essential. Competition for enrollment, scrutiny of outcomes and student ROI, budget constraints, regulat...Read Moreabout: Developing a Data Strategy for Your Institution: Steps for Best Practice -
Using Tableau Data Management to Simplify Ongoing Processes
Data Management is a suite of features designed to help organizations manage Tableau content and data assets within Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud environments. As of September 16, 2024, Data Management is integrated i...Read Moreabout: Using Tableau Data Management to Simplify Ongoing Processes -
Celebrating Excellence: Honoring AIR’s 2026 Award Recipients
Each year, AIR recognizes individuals whose scholarship, leadership, and service have advanced the field of institutional research and strengthened the community that supports it. These honors carry particular significan...Read Moreabout: Celebrating Excellence: Honoring AIR’s 2026 Award Recipients -
AIR Submits Comments on Proposed STATS and Earnings Accountability Framework
AIR recently submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell, including...Read Moreabout: AIR Submits Comments on Proposed STATS and Earnings Accountability Framework -
AIR Announces the Edward L. Delaney, Jr. Rising Star Award & Scholarship
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) is pleased to announce the renaming of the AIR Rising Star Award as the Edward L. Delaney, Jr. Rising Star Award & Scholarship. This designation honors the life,...Read Moreabout: AIR Announces the Edward L. Delaney, Jr. Rising Star Award & Scholarship -
A Final Reflection—and an Invitation to Lead
Hello everyone,Over the past two years, I have taken every opportunity to exhort you to join our volunteer leadership at AIR, and for good reason. My last three years as a Board member, in particular the last two as the ...Read Moreabout: A Final Reflection—and an Invitation to Lead -
Share Your Experience: National Study on ACTS Implementation Now Open
AIR, in partnership with the Urban Institute, invites Institutional Research and Effectiveness professionals to participate in a national study examining how colleges and universities are responding to the Admissions Con...Read Moreabout: Share Your Experience: National Study on ACTS Implementation Now Open -
Agentic AI Development in Higher Education and Implications for Institutional Research
Introduction: Agentic AI as the Next Frontier of AI DevelopmentArtificial intelligence is advancing quickly, and many IR/IE practitioners and data analytics professionals may feel as though the ground is shifting beneath...Read Moreabout: Agentic AI Development in Higher Education and Implications for Institutional Research -
Sustainable Documentation in Institutional Research: Practical Strategies for Busy Offices
When Institutional Knowledge Walks Out the DoorIn many institutional research offices, crucial knowledge lives primarily in the memories of individual staff. Institutional knowledge includes not only technical details&md...Read Moreabout: Sustainable Documentation in Institutional Research: Practical Strategies for Busy Offices -
AIR and Urban Institute Launch National Study on ACTS Implementation
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Urban Institute are partnering on a national study examining how colleges and universities are implementing the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (AC...Read Moreabout: AIR and Urban Institute Launch National Study on ACTS Implementation -
Board Corner
With our recent AIR elections just passed and the results certified by the Nominations and Elections Committee (NEC), I want to congratulate our newly elected Board and NEC members. AIR as an organization will benefit gr...Read Moreabout: Board Corner -
Get to Know Our Community: Osundwa F. Wanjera
My interest in institutional research emerged from a broader engagement with economics and public policy, particularly questions related to access, equity, and outcomes in education. I was initially drawn to understandin...Read Moreabout: Get to Know Our Community: Osundwa F. Wanjera -
Colleague News
Sam Michalowski Ph.D. is now Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Planning at Fairleigh Dickinson University following his service in the role on an interim basis.Celebrate achievements, prom...Read Moreabout: Colleague News -
A Moment of Transition for IPEDS: Honoring RTI’s Service, Looking Ahead
From LinkedIn Some in the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) community may not have seen that the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) contract was awarded to a new contractor—AEM C...Read Moreabout: A Moment of Transition for IPEDS: Honoring RTI’s Service, Looking Ahead -
U.S. Department of Education Releases Proposed STATS Accountability Rule
On April 17, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing a new federal framework for higher education program accountability. The proposal would establish the Stu...Read Moreabout: U.S. Department of Education Releases Proposed STATS Accountability Rule -
AIR Signs on to Letter Regarding Proposed Workforce Pell Regulations
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) has joined a coalition of higher education organizations in submitting comments on the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed regulations for the new Workforce Pell...Read Moreabout: AIR Signs on to Letter Regarding Proposed Workforce Pell Regulations -
What’s Worth Measuring Now? Rethinking KPIs in a Changing Higher Education Landscape
IntroductionIn Institutional Research (IR), key performance indicators (KPIs) such as first‑year retention, graduation rates, time to degree, and credit hour production have long served as cornerstones of accountability,...Read Moreabout: What’s Worth Measuring Now? Rethinking KPIs in a Changing Higher Education Landscape -
AIR’s Christine Keller Joins National Effort to Reimagine Federal Higher Education Data System
The Institute for Higher Education Policy has launched a national initiative—NCES Next: Building a Stronger Federal Postsecondary Data System—to rethink how federal higher education data are collected, struct...Read Moreabout: AIR’s Christine Keller Joins National Effort to Reimagine Federal Higher Education Data System -
Get to Know Our Community: Stefano Fiorini
I work with a team of statisticians and data scientists to develop advanced analytics that support our institutional mission and progress toward Indiana University’s strategic plan. Our analytics range from the cla...Read Moreabout: Get to Know Our Community: Stefano Fiorini -
Actionable Analytics the Ethical Way: Model Assessment Drives Transparency and Trust
How Rapidly Evolving AI-Powered Analytics Are Being Adopted to Support Student SuccessThe application of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to institutional student data offers pow...Read Moreabout: Actionable Analytics the Ethical Way: Model Assessment Drives Transparency and Trust
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