Recent News

AIR conducted the National Survey of IR Offices in fall 2015. One of the questions on the survey asked Directors of the IR Office how their office size has changed compared to three years prior. We found that approximate...

In this month's Data Bite, we explore the upcoming NSIRO survey. On June 21, 2018, over 350 people attended the AIR webinar, Using the National Survey of IR Offices Data to Inform Decision Making, with instructor Darlena...

Tallahassee, Fla. – (July 11, 2018) – The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today a new volume from Stylus Publishing, co-published with AIR and ACE. The ne...

In this month’s Data Bite, we explore the clients of the IR Office. We categorized the number of clients served by the IR Office and found that 17% of IR Offices serve a limited number of institutional offices/unit...

With the recent release of the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16) by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a common question posed by institutional researchers—especially tho...

Gaining access to data can be challenging for some IR Offices; especially Human Resources (HR) salary data. During the 2015 National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that, on average, 42% of IR Offices had unrestricted a...

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Cliff Adelman, a member of the AIR Board and a colleague and friend to many, passed away on May 3. Cliff will be remembered for his extensive work during his time with ...

Last month, we looked at the average number of hours spent by directors and found that data collection and management occupied the largest segment of time, followed closely by analyzing those data and disseminating resul...

Tallahassee, Fla. — (April 13, 2018) — The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today a new webinar: Encore: Findings from the Enterprise IT Summit 2018. The 2018 Enterprise IT Sum...

Supplemental Instruction (SI) is outside-of-class study sessions facilitated by student peers to enhance learning in traditionally difficult gateway courses, such as first-year math, science, logic, or statistical method...