Foundations Bootcamp: The Cornerstone for Any IR Professional is an intensive, hands-on workshop designed to equip IR professionals with the essential skills to drive meaningful, data-informed decision-making. Participants learn to move beyond answering questions toward true partnership in institutional discovery—clarifying goals, refining research questions, analyzing results, and translating data into actionable insights.

This workshop is ideal for early-career IR professionals, institutional effectiveness staff, and anyone looking to strengthen foundational research, analysis, and communication skills within higher education settings.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand common higher education data terminology
• Identify research designs appropriate to specific research questions
• Apply quantitative and qualitative data collection, sampling, and reliability techniques
• Construct high-quality surveys and validate survey instruments
• Conduct descriptive statistical analysis to summarize findings
• Create effective visualizations and reports to communicate results