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Emerging Trends and Best Practices for Collecting Information on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Dear eAIR: What are the emerging trends and best practices for collecting information on gender identity and sexual orientation? First and foremost, trends and best practices should be considered in the context of your c...Read Moreabout: Emerging Trends and Best Practices for Collecting Information on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation -
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 -
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 -
Using Data Effectively in Planning for Crisis Management
Dear Nic: How can we effectively use data to develop nimble plans that help us move forward through a crisis, such as a pandemic? This is a good question and really important right now, as we face the effects of COVID-19...Read Moreabout: Using Data Effectively in Planning for Crisis Management -
The Next Big Thing for IR: The Data Lake
Dear Sonia: My IR director wants us to create a data management system that can house a data lake. What is a data lake and how can we accomplish this? For institutional research and chief data officers (CDOs), one of th...Read Moreabout: The Next Big Thing for IR: The Data Lake
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