1. Association for Institutional Research
Building institutional research capacity
in American higher education
Network Conference & IPEDS Workshop
April 16, 2008
Arlington, VA

2. Before IR Work
After IR Work

3. Product of a North Carolina Community College
High Risk Factors (ETS, 2002)
0-1 = low, 2-5 = moderate, 5+ = high
 academically under prepared
single parent
 financially independent
caring for children at home
 working more than 30 hrs/week
 first-generation college student
being a part-time student
 college cost = significant issue
Drop Out

4. Attended a 2-year college? Worked for pay while in college?
Audience Survey
First generation to attend college?
Attended a 2-year college?
Worked for pay while in college?
Share a hope, dream, aspiration for your work that is rooted in you past experiences….
Why are you passionate about higher education?

5. Top Questions Received at AIR
Why is the Forum on Memorial Day Weekend?
Can you help me recruit an IR Officer?
Mandatory data reporting… What’s in it for us?

6. Recorded Assault on IPEDS Keyholder
walking on campus

7. Overview IPEDS Training We deliver: Face-to-Face
24/7 access – multiple methods
Addressing new challenges
Building IR Capacity
Summer Data Policy Institute
Graduate Study Fellowships
Building H.E. Knowledge
Research Grants and Fellowships
Post Doctoral Research

8. IPEDS Training: Face to Face
33 Workshops in 2007 – Ready to Go or Custom! Do
Try This
At Home!
Trainers and travel covered by NCES Contract
KANSAS!
Marty Fortner and Vicki Radtke - finance workshop in Kansas

9. IPEDS Training: Mentors & Asynchronies Learning
Streaming Video
Exercises & Tests
Feedback from Mentors

10. Trainer Profiles

11. IPEDS Training: Addressing New Challenges
NCES Webinar
Face-to-Face
Forum Panel Sessions
AIR Webinar - implications
Research & White Papers (auxiliary challenges & opportunities)
Race/Ethnicity

12. Data & Decisions Institutes
How to use data to improve campus decisions.
Council of Independent Colleges
American Association of Community Colleges
Tribal Colleges Consortium
Competitive, Team-Based, Colleges Pay

13. Data & Decisions Institutes
College President to IR Officer: Can you do that peer analysis for us?
IR Officer (repressing smirk): Sure….
Do Try This At Home!

14. Do Try This At Home! Building IR Capacity IR Graduate Study Fellowship
Traditional Academic Degrees
IR Certificates (Masters & Doctoral Students)
Summer Data Policy Institute
Boot camp for national data users
Funded Research & Dissertations
Do Try
This At
Home!

15. Online Learning “Overview of IPEDS” self-paced course
Introduction to IPEDS
Introduction to College Navigator
Introduction to Executive Peer Tool (ExPT)
Introduction to Peer Analysis System (PAS)
Creating Comparison Groups
New courses coming in 2008
The IPEDS Mentors

16. Webinar Recordings - Streaming Video - Streaming Audio

18. Coming in 2008 Overview of IPEDS 2.0 New Keyholders
Four Online Self-paced Courses
Overview of IPEDS 2.0
New Keyholders
Intermediate Data Tools
Research Topics: Costs

19. Summary of Today’s Presentation
Got Data?
Use it……
We owe it to our students and their families.
Higher Education changes lives!
(It changed yours, didn’t it?)

20. With thanks to the leadership and insight of NCES, and the giving spirit of AIR members…
Randy L. Swing, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Association for Institutional Research