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Thank you to the AIR members who served on the Julia M. Duckwall and Edward Delaney Scholarship Review Committee. Your commitment to helping facilitate the professional growth and development of early career institutiona...

IR in the Know keeps you up to date on current and emerging issues related to higher education data collection, analyses, and reporting with a brief summary of topics and links to more detailed information. IR in th...

Dear Suzanne: Why should we pay attention to graduate student retention and graduation rates? When considering how to answer this question, I looked at two overall questions: First, how do institutions handle graduate st...

JR Bjerklie is now Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at Hartwick College. Jennifer Blaylock is now Institutional Reporting & Research Coordinator for University of Arkansas-Pulaski Tech. Amy Filade...

The Statement of Aspirational Practice for Institutional Research advances the need for executive level leadership of the data and analytics function at post-secondary institutions. The role is “broader than a trad...

Understanding the financial viability of academic programs is increasingly at the forefront of discussions at small colleges and universities. However, a simple analysis of direct gross profits can be misleading if not p...

Preparing documents for an accreditation visit can be a stressful task. It involves many people and lots of last minute edits. Your institution may have thought ahead and prepared a website or intranet site where the ind...

Houston, we have a problem and need your help. I know you are busy, so I’ll make this short. Your vote for AIR leadership is important! I am requesting that you take the time to vote now. The future of institution...

Many of us use Microsoft Access to extract data from Banner or other enterprise systems, or to store data that doesn’t fit in our enterprise system. This tip provides an overview of the criteria field in Access que...

Tallahassee, Fla. – (January 11, 2019) – AIR announced today that registration is open for the Enterprise Summit: Analytics 2019, hosted by AIR, EDUCAUSE, and NACUBO April 17–19, 2019 in Long Beach, Cal...