eAIR recently spoke with Laura Bageant, AVP Data & Analytics, University of North Carolina System, about data, analytics, and using dashboards for data analysis and benchmarking. eAIR: As someone who didn't...

The Office of Assessment at the University of North Florida (UNF) uses infographics to succinctly visualize student engagement and success data. We’ve found them to be a useful platform to share focused messages wi...

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 ...

When people hear that I’m on the AIR Board, they often ask me about the Forum - who will the keynotes be? where will it be held? how many rooms are left? And I answer all of these questions the same way - check in ...

Thank you to the April eAIR contributors: Laura Bageant, Matt Grandstaff, Bill Knight, Amanda Kulp, Jospeh Roy, and Tricia Wang. Thank you to Vic Borden for presenting Leveraging the 2018 Carnegie Classification Upd...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  AccessLex Institute Announces Grant Winners for 2018-2019 Washington, D.C. (March 28, 2019) - AccessLex Institute and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) have announced the winne...

ACUHO-I is now accepting proposals for the March 2019 cycle of the Funded Research Grants program. To date, the program has awarded over $90,000 to 19 studies. Financial support is available for selected research st...

Dear Deborah: I’ve just been promoted to a middle management position. I want to solidify my relationship with my director as well as my subordinates. Can you share some strategies for managing up? First off, cong...

eAIR spoke with Robert Kelchen, Assistant Professor, Education Leadership, Management, and Policy, Seton Hall University, about a new grant that will study the effects of variations in performance-based funding poli...

I’ve been working on self care over the past couple of years, and I know some of you have too. It is hard for many of us to take time to focus on ourselves, to be certain that we are doing the things needed to stay...

Check out the latest IR and higher education journal issues. March eAIR highlights content for New Directions for Institutional Research and Innovative Higher Education.   New Directions for Institutional Resea...

Thank you to Tyler Davis and Ruth Hammond for presenting Analyzing IPEDS Data by State for the Almanac of Higher Education at the 6th IPEDS Educator web conference for the current contract cycle on February 7, 2019. Than...

Figure 1: STP Enrollment Dashboard Introduction Tim Miller, a blogger for DataViz at Data Science Central, recently offered suggestions for Creating a Great Information Dashboard. He nicely summarized some of the...

Surveys in higher education often target students at different levels of their degrees, which makes survey design tricky. Qualtrics has a useful feature to dynamically adapt survey questions to meet the survey requireme...

Reports & Tools   Do Open Educational Resources Improve Student Learning? Implications of the Access Hypothesis (Casey Kerins) This new study of Open Educational Resources (OERs) discuss the “Access hypoth...

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...

Thanks to Tasha Dannenbring, Director of Assessment and Institutional Research, South Dakota Board of Regents, for providing the original idea and background for this article. The Foundations for Evidence-Based...

The Diversity Pipeline Research Grant Program awards grants to both execute and evaluate legal education diversity pipeline programs designed to help college students and/or college graduates from historically underrepre...

eAIR recently spoke with Robinson Neidhardt, AIR Strategy Director of Technology, about the new website and user portal (as of January 2019), including what went on behind the scenes of this massive undertaking and ...

When you download Tableau Desktop, by default Tableau adds a file folder to your documents folder called “My Tableau Repository.” This folder contains data and options for your desktop application. In additio...