From the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that most IR offices in U.S. postsecondary institutions report to either the President/Chief Executive Officer or the Provost/Chief Academic Officer; the remain...

Concerns about returning to in-person instruction and campus life in fall 2020 in light of COVID-19 remain at the forefront of higher education news. The conversations, planning, strategizing, contingency modeling, and d...

In this installment on data governance, we discuss what it takes to build a collaborative data governance culture and why it is beneficial to the overall organization to help move its mission forward.  To begin to d...

I cherish the opportunity to meet up with our IR colleagues at the AIR Forum every year. Who would have known at last year’s AIR Forum in Denver that we would not meet again this year in New Orleans? Although the c...

Many of us were unable to attend conferences this year, where we likely would have picked up on lessons to help us improve upon student and institutional success. Our aim is that this article will act as a substitute for...

As universities across the U.S. wrestle with reopening plans, the time-tested public health measure of contact tracing will be essential to those efforts. Universities will need to quickly identify who a COVID-positive p...

eAIR caught up with Lee D. Lambert, J.D., Chancellor of Pima Community College, to talk about online learning, how COVID-19 has impacted of data use, automation and AI, and what enrollment may look like this fall. eAIR: ...

Now is the time to think creatively about keeping students, faculty, and staff physically and mentally healthy, and what campus health and well-being looks in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. In partnership with the Ameri...

Washington, D.C. (June 17, 2020) - AccessLex Institute and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) have announced the winners of nearly $225,000 in grants awarded through their annual Research and Dissertation F...

In many circumstances, different text files are created with the same formats representing different groups or time periods. When multiple text files are held in a specific location, whether they are on a server, cloud, ...

Christopher Call has retired as Vice President for Administration and Research, Planning, and Implementation from Westmont College. Mary Lou D’Allegro is now Associate Vice President for Institutional Eff...

COVID-19 and the Post Pandemic Reopening Decision In March 2020, with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, higher education institutions nationally made a difficult decision to transition largely to online or virtual learni...

The urgency of using analytics within higher education to make strategic decisions is greater now than ever given the COVID-19 pandemic. This fall, many institutions will continue to provide remote teaching to at least a...

Data from a recent AIR survey indicate that working from home and surges in the number of data requests on short timelines are the pandemic’s greatest impacts on IR. The disruption caused by the...

This month, we discuss the use of software and tools in the data governance process. As we indicated previously, data governance is an organizational transformation process, it is a cultural change process, and its succe...

eAIR had an opportunity to speak with Edward Hummingbird, Director of Institutional Research, Effectiveness and Planning at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI). Read on for insights on regaining accredit...

Innovative Higher Education features empirical research reports that examine innovations in higher education. The journal also features work on the effect of such innovations on teaching and student learning. Multidiscip...

Reports & Tools How Will COVID-19 Affect Community College Funding? This report from the Community College Research Center analyzes IPEDS data from similar economic crises to consider how COVID-19 as a public health...

Pensacola State College is comprised of multiple campuses and centers that serve students in Northwest Florida. To visualize the total Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) of each campus and center, the Office of Institutional Res...

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...