A key development in higher education over the past several decades is the growth of institutional research offices that function under the core principles of explaining what is happening now and attempting to shed light...

eAIR had an opportunity to speak with Shawna Sadler, Engagement Manager, Outreach & Partnerships at ORCID, about connecting researchers with their work and their institutions. How would you describe ORCID to someone...

AIR is saddened to announce the passing of longtime member Glynton Smith on March 3, 2021. Glynton was a retired director of institutional research at Georgia State as well as the Medical College of Georgia and the Unive...

Visualizing geographic information helps data consumers quickly and easily derive insights and meaning. Institutional researchers, for example, may want to map students' home states or countries to help campus administra...

Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, many of whom are of color, continue to suffer as a result of the pandemic and need support from their colleges. The Queens College (QC) Percy E. Sutton, Search for Education...

  Spring 2020 Data Released NCES has released provisional data from the Spring 2020 collection. The Spring 2020 collection includes the following survey component data: Enrollment, Fall 2019; Finance, Fiscal Year 2...

What Is Data Mining and Why Would I Want to Use It? Data mining combines the areas of statistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to discover relationships and insights hidden within large volumes of data....

Have you ever been involved in a conversation in which two or more people are using the same term but with different meanings? Establishing the meaning of common terms prevents miscommunications and helps move conversati...

I interviewed Karl Konsdorf, Director of Research, Analytics and Reporting at Sinclair Community College, to learn about their strategies for using predictive analytics. Can you share some examples of how you are using P...

From the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that 19% of staff time was devoted to conducting basic analytics (e.g., descriptive statistics). But what about advanced analytics (e.g., predictive analytics)?...

Dear eAIR: What are the emerging trends and best practices for collecting information on gender identity and sexual orientation? First and foremost, trends and best practices should be considered in the context of your c...

“I have a Zoom call at 3, so make sure you only enter my office if it is an emergency AND you are fully dressed.” A little less than a year ago, at the beginning of the pandemic, when people were talking a...

IR Offices and U.S. institutions comes in all sizes and types, so finding relevant benchmarking data on IR Offices can be challenging. In the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, there were 543 U.S. IR Offices who com...

  Suggestions from IPEDS Technical Review Panel #62, “Capturing Noncredit Enrollment and Activity in the IPEDS Surveys” are posted at edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP and are currently open for comment. This...

As a reminder, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) provided federal funds to many postsecondary institutions during the 2019-20 academic year. These funds need to be reported to IPEDS in th...

A Distance Education Resource page has been added to the IPEDS website. The page explains how distance education is defined in IPEDS, which survey components collect data on distance education courses and programs, and h...

Amid the ongoing pandemic and the associated economic impacts, higher education has a key role supporting our regional economies. To hear some perspectives on how institutional research can help, we connected with Shawn ...

In 2008, American University in Cairo (AUC) moved its main operations from downtown to New Cairo. With a beautiful campus designed to accommodate 5,500 full-time students and 1,500 faculty and staff, AUC’s $400 mil...

On behalf of the AIR Board of Directors, I would like to express our gratitude to the AIR community and all you do to promote the success of our institutions, our students, and higher education. During these unprecedente...

Gathering the Data A common request of our institutional research office is to combine data from multiple sources and varying formats. For example, we keep our demographic and academic information about our students in a...