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About a week into this adventure, I felt like I had a new job—and in some ways that was true. But in other ways, I was doing the same work but toward different purposes. Still administering surveys, still producing...

This month, we provide an overview of a data governance process. Have you ever spent a great deal of time looking through documents, databases, or files on your shared network based on a request you receive? You kno...

Each year, our Institutional Effectiveness (IE) office publishes an annual report for our Academic Affairs unit, which is one of five administrative divisions at Delaware State University. The Office of the Provost and E...

If you’re looking for an excuse nowadays to spend more time inside on a computer, I recommend visiting the subreddit r/dataisbeautiful. Users submit all kinds of visualizations along with details of how they were c...

Academic requirements of the office leader vary by the institution and the role that the office leader plays at their institution. In general, post-graduate degrees are commonplace among office leaders. We asked off...

Each year, the AIR Board of Directors convenes members at an official business meeting to provide an overview of important association activities as required by our constitution and bylaws. Normally, this meeting coincid...

This month, we discuss who the key data governance stakeholders are and how to engage them effectively. A stakeholder in any data governance program is an individual or group that could affect or be affected by the ...

Higher Education Lee Allard is now Director of Institutional Research at Daemen College. Felice Billups, AIR member and Professor in the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at Johnson & Wales University...

eAIR caught up with Sheila Steiner, Director of Assessment & Accreditation, Saint Martin’s University, who answered these questions as they relate to the current pandemic: What determines college read...

A huge topic for our technical colleges has been the re-authorization of the Perkins law. This law brought substantial changes to procedures for requesting funds. One of the most significant changes was the implementatio...