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AIR Announces 2025 Award Recipients
The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 AIR Awards, which recognize excellence, service, scholarship, and leadership in the field of Institutional Research and hig...Read Moreabout: AIR Announces 2025 Award Recipients -
OMB Announces Review of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on behalf of the Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee (SOCPC), announces the review of the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Manual for potential ...Read Moreabout: OMB Announces Review of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System -
OMB Seeks Comment on IPEDS Changes Proposed for 2024-25 through 2026-27
See the Federal Register posting [Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102, PP. 45870-45871] opening the 30-day public comment period on the request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for changes to the IPEDS col...Read Moreabout: OMB Seeks Comment on IPEDS Changes Proposed for 2024-25 through 2026-27 -
AIR Introduces New Rising Star Award in 2024
Every year, AIR honors institutional research (IR) professionals who have made notable contributions to the success of the association and the IR field through demonstrated service, leadership, and scholarship throughout...Read Moreabout: AIR Introduces New Rising Star Award in 2024 -
IR Focus Group Opportunity: Understanding Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments in Service of Equity
Institutional researchers (IR) are invited to participate in a recently launched study, Understanding Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments in Service of Equity. In particular, IR professionals are asked to partici...Read Moreabout: IR Focus Group Opportunity: Understanding Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments in Service of Equity -
New Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files Available From U.S. News
U.S. News is providing, free of charge to any institutional researcher, Excel spreadsheets with ranking data that appear in the main rankings tables in the Best Colleges 2022-2023 Edition guide book. These spreadshe...Read Moreabout: New Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files Available From U.S. News -
AIR Graduate Student Members Can Now Vote in AIR Leadership Elections
The AIR Bylaws were updated by a vote of the members present at the AIR Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, June 8, in Phoenix. Following the 2021 AIR leadership elections, the 2020-2021 Nomination and Elections Commit...Read Moreabout: AIR Graduate Student Members Can Now Vote in AIR Leadership Elections -
New Webpage and Blog Posts Provide Overview of Measuring Student Success in IPEDS
NCES has recently published a webpage providing information on the similarities and differences between the three IPEDS surveys components primarily focused on measuring student success: Graduation Rates (GR), Graduation...Read Moreabout: New Webpage and Blog Posts Provide Overview of Measuring Student Success in IPEDS -
New Version of DataLab Available
A new version of DataLab, including an updated and improved PowerStats, is now available. The new DataLab improves the ease-of-use and performance of PowerStats; incorporates the charting functions of QuickStats into Pow...Read Moreabout: New Version of DataLab Available -
IPEDS TRP Summary Open for Comment
Suggestions from IPEDS Technical Review Panel #64, Meeting the Moment: Modernizing the IPEDS Admissions Survey Component” are currently open for comment. This TRP meeting was held on June 22 and 23, 2021, via video...Read Moreabout: IPEDS TRP Summary Open for Comment -
NCES Releases Fall 2020 Data
NCES has released provisional data from the Fall 2020 collection. The Fall 2020 collection includes the following survey component data: Institutional Characteristics and Cost of Attendance for the 2020-21 Academic...Read Moreabout: NCES Releases Fall 2020 Data -
IPEDS: Registration and Summary of Changes for the 2021-22 Collection
The registration period for the 2021-22 IPEDS data collection is now open. Existing (primary) Keyholders and Coordinators should have received a registration email on August 4, 2021. For additional information on the dat...Read Moreabout: IPEDS: Registration and Summary of Changes for the 2021-22 Collection -
NCES Makes CIP 2020 Updates
NCES announced it will be making two changes to the 2020 CIP which will become effective with the opening of the Fall 2021 Data Collection: 1) Addition of CIP Code 49.0109 Remote Aircraft Pilot: A program that pre...Read Moreabout: NCES Makes CIP 2020 Updates -
IPEDS TRP Summary Open for Comment
Suggestions from IPEDS Technical Review Panel #63, “Capturing and Clarifying Dual Enrollment Data (Part II)” are posted at https://edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP/Default.aspx and are currently open for comment. ...Read Moreabout: IPEDS TRP Summary Open for Comment -
IPEDS Trend Generator Updated with Residence and Migration Data
The IPEDS Trend Generator has recently been updated with residence and migration data, featuring two new questions on all first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates and on newly enrolled first-time degree/certi...Read Moreabout: IPEDS Trend Generator Updated with Residence and Migration Data -
Data 2021-22 Collection Calendar Published
The IPEDS data collection calendar for 2021-22 has now been posted and is available at: https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/data-collection-scheduleRead Moreabout: Data 2021-22 Collection Calendar Published -
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 -
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
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