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Tallahassee, Fla. – (December 19, 2018) – The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today that AIR and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) will host an interactive policy summit ...

Thank you to Nancy Copa, CEDS, for presenting Standardizing Postsecondary to Improve Data Quality this past November at the 4th IPEDS Educator web conference for the 2018...

Check out the latest IR and higher education journal issues. February eAIR highlights content for Innovative Higher Education.  The articles listed on the IHE website have recently been posted in “Online First...

Analysts use visualizations to deliver complicated information in an easy to understand way. Dual axis function in Tableau helps users to be efficient with a message of visualization. Another name for a chart with a dual...

Scenario: You are developing an Excel dashboard based off a Pivot table or tables and you have multiple slicers to allow different combinations of data disaggregation, as in the image below. Everyone oohs and ahs un...

AIR welcomes brief announcements of interest to the IR and assessment communities, such as the release of a report, funding opportunities or a request for applications. Send your announcement to eAIR@airweb.org ...

Nearly two decades ago, as a faculty member coordinating a major, I was referred to the factbook when looking for metrics for a five-year program review. Trying to understand the graduation rate and retention rate that I...

Sharing results from our Graduating Student Survey typically meant sending or posting Excel or PDF files. Now, we're able to post interactive results in one location, allowing users to view results by year. Fro...

Class size matters to different stakeholders on campus for different reasons. Students and faculty love small class sizes for obvious reasons. Administrators like the registrar, deans, department chairs, etc., in smaller...

The 2018 National Survey of IR Offices provides a tool for internal reporting and comparison to peer institutions. To date, 863 have participated.   RESPONSES     REPORTING Participants who complete...