National Survey Data Bite

The National Survey of IR Offices report (page 7) grouped IR offices into three “personalities:” Broad (offices with broad portfolios of work for which they are responsible, 27% of offices), Fo...

Access to data is the foundation of a data-informed decision culture. However, some IR Offices report limited or restricted access to a number of institutional data sets that might prove valuable in researching...

Institutional research should impact every unit at an institution. But, are some units more likely to use IR than others? According to results from the National Survey of IR Offices, there are certain units more lik...

What does the profile of the average Director of IR look like? Results from the National Survey of IR Offices, in combination with AIR’s membership data, show that the average IR Director is 50 years...

Last spring, we explored the FTE of the director and professional IR staff and found a correlation between FTE and student enrollment. This month, we go a step further and disaggregate those data by institutional se...

Last month, we discussed the location of funding for the IR Office. This month, we’ll delve a little deeper into the budget of the IR Office. In the National Survey of IR Offices, we asked respondents for the ...

We’re going to explore the financial resources of the IR Office over the next few Data Bite articles. This month, we’ll look at the location of the financial resources that support the IR Office.   ...

In last month’s Data Bite, we learned that 51 percent of Offices of IR are located within the division of the Provost/Chief Academic Officer and 26 percent are located within the division of the President/Chief Exe...

In which division is your Office of IR primarily located? We find that 77% of public or private, not-for-profit institutions are located within the Provost/Chief Academic Officer division (51%) or in the President/CEO di...

Net Price Calculators are available on a college’s or university’s website and allow prospective students to enter information about themselves to find out what students similar to them paid to attend the ins...

In the May 2016 Data Bite, we explored the average FTE of the IR Office (Director and Professional IR Staff only) for not-for-profit institutions. Commenters were interested in delving into the staff FTE for small i...