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Post-secondary institutions are feeling pressure from the top down to predict trends based on enrollment, student retention, and graduation rates. Student success measures have become a baseline for developing strategic ...

What are the best ways to engage faculty in IR projects? This question often starts good conversations that don’t always have clear answers. Of course, the answers differ among institutions and across the breadt...

AIR is pleased to announce updated IPEDS video tutorials for the 2020–21 winter and spring collection periods. Funded and approved by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statist...

How many years of relevant work experience should the leader of an IR/IE office have? From the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that the average office leader has spent 18 years working in higher e...

IPEDS TRP Summary Open for Comment Suggestions from IPEDS Technical Review Panel #60, “Monitoring Emerging Issues in Higher Education” are posted at https://edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP/Default.aspx and are cu...

AIR's Leah Ewing Ross and Stephan Cooley are featured in an episode of the Assessment Institute's new podcast series, Leading Improvements in Higher Education. Podcast episodes profile peopl...

AIR, EDUCAUSE, and NACUBO have published a case study highlighting how University of California, San Diego, is embracing the "Change with Analytics" statement, jointly released by the three associations, on its journey t...

In light of the changes and disruptions throughout 2020, what do you anticipate the future of IR to look like?  There is no doubt that we have frequently heard people using superlatives to describe...

Rhyan had the opportunity to speak with Kate Akers, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Advanced Data Analytics at Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. Her office coordinates with ins...

There are so many leadership models out there—in the business literature, in the psychology literature, in education to name a few—and the models range from servant leadership to autocratic to charismat...