Special Features

COVID-19 has become a global pandemic and has caused disruption to life as we know it. As of April 2, at least 216,000 cases of the virus had been reported in the U.S. alone. Colleges and universities are responding...

AIR elections, which closed earlier this month, produced a dynamic set of new officers who are looking toward the future of higher education and our association. eAIR caught up with these members and posed the ...

You are the recipient of a data request from a program director who believes that poor performance by students from a local high school is threatening the program's reputation. As part of an effort to build support for r...

In a previous piece titled “Big Data and the Problem of Bias in Higher Education,” I wrote about the increasing use of big data within higher education used to help us better understand and improve student s...

eAIR caught up with Tony Parandi, Director of Institutional Research, Indiana Wesleyan University, to chat about his career in IR and adapting to meet increased demands for external reporting and internal analytics....

For most higher education institutions, the transformation to an analytics culture is truly a journey. The recently released joint statement, Analytics can save higher education. Really., a shared call to action from The...

eAIR recently sat down with Dai Li, Director of Institutional Research and Planning, Pittsburg State University, to talk about IR careers, the benefits of AIR membership, and exciting new projects taking place...

eAIR recently sat down with several members to find out how volunteering with the association has helped them grow their networks and engage in their professional roles. As a bonus, these members shared useful tips for f...

eAIR spoke with Iryna Johnson, Associate Director for Analytics, Auburn University about the Forum call for proposals, attending the Forum for the first time, and the intrinsic value of AIR membership.   e...

“If you want to go fast you should go alone, but if you want to go far, you should go together.” – Source unknown. I am a strong believer in the power of collective action to achieve a common goal and t...

eAIR recently caught up with Bill Tobin, Director of Institutional Research, DePauw University, to chat about his career in IR at a small, private liberal arts university and the benefits of AIR membership. eAIR: Wh...

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...

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...

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 ...

eAIR caught up with 6 winners of the AIR Affiliated Organization Travel Grant for the 2019 AIR Forum to find out how receiving the award impacted them and to discover their biggest take-aways from the conference in Denve...

A summary of the 2019 Enterprise Summit: Analytics “The greatest potential for building effective institutional research is leveraging talent across the institution.” (from the Statement of Aspirational Pract...

eAIR recently spoke with Barrie Fitzgerald, Director of Institutional Research, Valdosta State University, about juggling full-time work and graduate school, advice for first-time Forum attendees, being an IR leader...

eAIR recently caught up with Tricia Wang to talk about integrating thick data into the work of higher education professionals. Tricia, a global tech ethnographer who began her career as a documentary ...

eAIR recently spoke with Laura Bageant, AVP Data & Analytics, University of North Carolina System, about data, analytics, and using dashboards for data analysis and benchmarking. eAIR: As someone who didn't...

eAIR spoke with Robert Kelchen, Assistant Professor, Education Leadership, Management, and Policy, Seton Hall University, about a new grant that will study the effects of variations in performance-based funding poli...