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2025 Winter Volume
Article 176: A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Master’s Degree Completion at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Fikrewold Bitew and Lauren ApgarArticle 177: Survival Analysis of Transfer Students
Shulin Zhou, Yihui Li, Margot Neverett, Beverly King, Kyle Chapman, and Sharon McNair
Archive
Please contact publications@airweb.org to access articles prior to 2025.Editors
Iryna Muse, Editor
Iryna Muse currently serves as Assistant Vice Chancellor for System Analytics and Business Intelligence at the University of Alabama System (UAS). Prior to joining the UAS, Iryna worked in IR roles at Auburn University, Indiana University—Bloomington, and Indiana State University. Overall, she has over 18 years of experience in institutional research and has been a member of AIR since 2004. The area of specialization of Iryna’s Ph.D. program was research methodology; and she taught research methods and statistical analysis at both undergraduate and graduate levels. During her institutional research career, Iryna initiated numerous research projects for decision support. Some of these projects resulted in peer-reviewed and invited presentations and publications that emphasized appropriate statistical methods for institutional research data. Iryna received the AIR Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award on three different occasions. She has reviewed manuscripts for Research in Higher Education, AIR Professional File, American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, Universal Journal of Education and General Studies, Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Social Forces, and Sociology of Education. Aside from her reviewer experiences, she served as a publication chair at the Indiana Association for Institutional Research. Iryna holds equivalents of Ph.D. and master’s degrees in Sociology from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine and was a recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program and from the Democratic Education Project (Queen’s University, Canada).
Inger Bergom, Assistant Editor
Inger Bergom is an institutional researcher in the Boston area and has worked in higher education since 2007. Prior to her institutional research roles, she was Senior Researcher at the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education and taught organizational theory and practice in higher education at the graduate level. She also served as an evaluation consultant at several universities to support evaluations of NSF-funded grants. Inger earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Higher Education from the University of Michigan, specializing in evaluation and assessment, learning and teaching, and faculty work. At U-M, she received training in research methods and survey design from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and served as a research assistant for several multi-university research projects including the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education and a national study of engineering education. Inger has served on the eAIR editorial task force and the NEAIR grants committee, and her co-authored papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, and Journal of Engineering Education.