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Collaboration. It’s what’s for dinner. Well, maybe it’s not edible, but it is necessary for IR and our institutions to be strong and healthy.  While that’s not news to many of us working in ...

Tallahassee, Fla. — (March 22, 2018) —The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today the formation of a new Data Policy Advisory Group.   This new and exciting initiative is b...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AccessLex Institute Announces Grant Winners Washington, D.C. (March 20, 2018) - AccessLex Institute and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) have announced the winners of more than $2...

How do you spend your days in the IR Office? We asked participants of the National Survey of IR Offices to report how the Director of the IR Office and other IR professional staff (e.g., analysts, technical staff, etc.) ...

On March 13, 2018, AIR partnered with the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and the American Council on Education (ACE) to host Leadership in Enhancing Postsecondary Data Policy and Analytics to Improve Studen...

This collaboration between AIR, EDUCAUSE, and NACUBO, the Enterprise IT summit, March 5–7, 2018, in Orlando, Florida, brought together IT and finance leaders to discuss various ways to work together to address inst...

In the National Survey of IR Offices Report (free PDF report), we grouped institutions by their task “personality” and identified three patterns: Broad (IR Offices who are engaged in nearly every data in...

Tallahassee, Fla. — (February 6, 2018) —The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) announced today that it will host a live discussion with Jeremy Smith, the author of Epic...

When we report large numbers (especially related to financials), the default number formatting in Excel does not show up nicely in tables or charts, making it hard to read in a glance. One way to address this is to use c...

IR and IT have a close working relationships at most institutions. But, exactly, what does that relationship look like? Results from the National Survey of IR Offices shows that between 68% and 76% of IR Offices (dependi...