National Survey Data Bite

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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 08.26.19

    Staff Positions at IR Offices

    • by eAIR
    It’s challenging to be the director of an IR office. How many staff should you have? What kinds of work should those staff do? What roles should those staff be in? This month, we look at the staff roles within an I...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 07.15.19

    Office Leader – Time Allocation

    • by eAIR
    How do you spend your day-to-day time? Do your colleagues allocate the same time? The 2018 National Survey of IR Offices asked office leaders to estimate the percentage of their time to various activities. Using demonstr...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 06.19.19

    Benchmarking the IR Office

    • by eAIR
    Why benchmark? A benchmarking project allows you to access credible information about your peer or aspirant IR Offices. That information can help you understand if your office is performing efficiently and effectively, a...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 05.15.19

    National Survey of IR Offices

    • by eAIR
    The AIR National Survey of IR Offices has collected data from over 1,000 IR offices on metrics such as staffing, compensation, work produced, and clients served. Complete the survey by June 30, 2019, to take advant...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 04.17.19

    Data Bite April 2019

    • by eAIR
    The U.S. institutional research office does not follow a common organizational structure. Each IR office evolved to serve the unique needs of their institution. However, there are a few information studies that a lot of ...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 03.20.19

    Data Bite March 2019

    • by eAIR
    When you walk around AIR’s annual conference, the Forum, or a regional or state affiliated organization’s conference, you will hear attendees talking about the wide variety of work their office does – b...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 02.20.19

    Data Bite February 2019

    • by eAIR
    The Statement of Aspirational Practice for Institutional Research advances the need for executive level leadership of the data and analytics function at post-secondary institutions. The role is “broader than a trad...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 12.20.18

    Data Bite December 2018

    • by eAIR
    The 2018 National Survey of IR Offices provides a tool for internal reporting and comparison to peer institutions. To date, 863 have participated.   RESPONSES     REPORTING Participants who complete...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 08.16.18

    Data Bite August 2018

    • by eAIR
    AIR conducted the National Survey of IR Offices in fall 2015. One of the questions on the survey asked Directors of the IR Office how their office size has changed compared to three years prior. We found that approximate...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 07.19.18

    Data Bite July 2018

    • by eAIR
    In this month's Data Bite, we explore the upcoming NSIRO survey. On June 21, 2018, over 350 people attended the AIR webinar, Using the National Survey of IR Offices Data to Inform Decision Making, with instructor Darlena...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 06.21.18

    Data Bite June 2018

    • by eAIR
    In this month’s Data Bite, we explore the clients of the IR Office. We categorized the number of clients served by the IR Office and found that 17% of IR Offices serve a limited number of institutional offices/unit...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 05.17.18

    Data Bite May 2018

    • by eAIR
    Gaining access to data can be challenging for some IR Offices; especially Human Resources (HR) salary data. During the 2015 National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that, on average, 42% of IR Offices had unrestricted a...
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  • DataBiteApril-2018
    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 04.19.18

    Data Bite April 2018

    • by eAIR
    Last month, we looked at the average number of hours spent by directors and found that data collection and management occupied the largest segment of time, followed closely by analyzing those data and disseminating resul...
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  • DataBite-March2018
    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 03.15.18

    Data Bite March 2018

    • by eAIR
    How do you spend your days in the IR Office? We asked participants of the National Survey of IR Offices to report how the Director of the IR Office and other IR professional staff (e.g., analysts, technical staff, etc.) ...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 02.15.18

    Data Bite February 2018

    • by eAIR
    In the National Survey of IR Offices Report (free PDF report), we grouped institutions by their task “personality” and identified three patterns: Broad (IR Offices who are engaged in nearly every data in...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 12.21.17

    Data Bite December 2017

    • by eAIR
    IR and IT have a close working relationships at most institutions. But, exactly, what does that relationship look like? Results from the National Survey of IR Offices shows that between 68% and 76% of IR Offices (dependi...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 11.16.17

    Data Bite November 2017

    • by eAIR
    We’ve explored the number of professional IR staff in IR offices in previous Data Bites. This month, we'll look at the types of staff involved.  Based on what we learned from the 2016 National Survey...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 10.19.17

    Data Bite October 2017

    • by eAIR
    In June, we explored the "personality" of IR Offices by sector and found that offices at public 4-year institutions were more likely to have broad responsibilities while private, not-for-profit, 4-year institutions were ...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 09.21.17

    Data Bite September 2017

    • by eAIR
    Every U.S. postsecondary institution that awards federal financial aid must submit data to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as part of the Integrated Postsecondary ...
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    • National Survey Data Bite
    • 08.17.17

    Data Bite August 2017

    • by eAIR
    The Statement of Aspirational Practice for Institutional Research calls for intentional building and support of the institutional research function—the collection of data users and producers across an ins...
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