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Office Leader – Time Allocation
How do you spend your day-to-day time? Do your colleagues allocate the same time? The 2018 National Survey of IR Offices asked office leaders to estimate the percentage of their time to various activities. Using demonstr...Read Moreabout: Office Leader – Time Allocation -
AIR Membership: No Greater Return on Investment
eAIR recently caught up with Sandi Bramblett, Assistant Vice President of Institutional Research & Enterprise Data Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, and former AIR Board member, about IR, her current...Read Moreabout: AIR Membership: No Greater Return on Investment -
Using Self-service Data to Inform Decision Making
Dear Ron: We are implementing efforts to better push self-service data to our users. Do you have tips or advice on how they might use the data to inform decision making? I’m glad you asked! That is a question that ...Read Moreabout: Using Self-service Data to Inform Decision Making -
Using the Listagg Function in SQL
Our institutional research analysts frequently extract data and modify the structure of data using SQL to suit the needs of data consumers or to ease analysis. Often, we need to aggregate tables containing multiple rows ...Read Moreabout: Using the Listagg Function in SQL -
Digital Fact Book: From Data to Storytelling
Each year, most Institutional Research (IR) offices publish a Fact Book containing all the facts and figures pertaining to their institutions for distribution to board members, the leadership team, faculty, staff, and st...Read Moreabout: Digital Fact Book: From Data to Storytelling -
Skills IR Professionals Need to Succeed
Today’s IR professionals need everything from an ability to interpret data to an understanding of how others think. This article focuses on the second part of the Impact Session from the 2019 AIR Forum, An Exp...Read Moreabout: Skills IR Professionals Need to Succeed -
Thank You to the AIR Community
Thank you to the outstanding IR in the Know contributors who submitted articles during the second quarter of 2019: Eric Atchison, Angela Henderson, and Casey Kerins. Thank you to Archie Cubarrubia for presenting U...Read Moreabout: Thank You to the AIR Community -
Colleague News
Jeff Seybert, a longtime AIR member, passed away on June 19. Jeff was a giant in the field of institutional research, especially as it affected community colleges. He was a past recipient of the John Stecklein Distinguis...Read Moreabout: Colleague News -
Benchmarking the IR Office
Why benchmark? A benchmarking project allows you to access credible information about your peer or aspirant IR Offices. That information can help you understand if your office is performing efficiently and effectively, a...Read Moreabout: Benchmarking the IR Office -
An Exploration: What is IR?
Institutional research (IR) professionals and scholars have continuously revisited the question “What is IR?” One explanation for the recurrent question is that the practice and discipline of IR continues to ...Read Moreabout: An Exploration: What is IR?