Association for Institutional Research

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Association for Institutional Research

• Building institutional research capacity
• in American higher education
• Network Conference IPEDS Workshop
• April 16, 2008
• Arlington, VA

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Before IR Work
AfterIR Work
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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
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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?
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Top Questions Received at AIR

• Why is the Forum on Memorial Day Weekend?
• Can you help me recruit an IR Officer?
• Mandatory data reporting Whats in it for us?

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Recorded Assault on IPEDS Keyholder
IPEDS Keyholder walking on campus
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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

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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
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IPEDS Training Mentors Asynchronies Learning

• Streaming Video
• Exercises Tests
• Feedback from Mentors

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Trainer Profiles
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IPEDS Training Addressing New Challenges
NCES Webinar Face-to-Face Forum Panel
Sessions AIR Webinar - implications Research
White Papers(auxiliary challenges
opportunities)
Race/Ethnicity
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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
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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!
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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!
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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

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• Webinar Recordings - Streaming Video - Streaming
  Audio

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Coming in 2008

• Four Online Self-paced Courses
• Overview of IPEDS 2.0
• New Keyholders
• Intermediate Data Tools
• Research Topics Costs

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Summary of Todays Presentation

• Got Data?
• Use it
• We owe it to our students and their families.
• Higher Education changes lives!
• (It changed yours, didnt it?)

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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
• rswing_at_airweb2.org