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COVID-19 has become a global pandemic and has caused disruption to life as we know it. As of April 2, at least 216,000 cases of the virus had been reported in the U.S. alone. Colleges and universities are responding...

Dear Sonia: My IR director wants us to create a data management system that can house a data lake. What is a data lake and how can we accomplish this? For institutional research and chief data officers (CDOs), one of th...

AIR elections, which closed earlier this month, produced a dynamic set of new officers who are looking toward the future of higher education and our association. eAIR caught up with these members and posed the ...

This month, Journal News highlights the Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition. The latest issue Volume 32, No. 1, is now available online. To read an abstract for one of the articles...

Reports and Tools Completing College: State-Level Trends The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released updated data on completing college to include a report on state-level trends. The report highlight...

Rassoul Dastmozd has retired as President/CEO from Saint Paul College. Sarah Fitzgerald is now Assessment Librarian at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Nancy Floyd is now Senior System Director for Research at th...

As data professionals, we strive to do our work with integrity; however, applying ethical principles in practice isn’t always easy. AIR crafted a resource based on scenarios shared by data professionals to help nav...

In preparation for reaccreditation, Dartmouth’s Office of Institutional Research decided to transform student outcomes data from multiple sources and formats into compelling visualizations. The publicly-available v...

For information where online dashboards are not available, my office frequently uses pivot tables to visualize large sets of data for our stakeholders. Often times, we use the same data set for multiple visualizations li...

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