Office of Institutional Research

The College conducts institutional research in an ongoing manner, in all administrative and academic areas, in order to study how effectively it is functioning and how to improve its operation. Such research is carried out in annual reports, analysis of budgets, review of examination results, and other statistical analysis. Although faculty members and administrators in the normal course of their duties complete much of this work, the College has a Director of Institutional Research who assists various offices in their efforts in this regard and who conducts research which is comprehensive in nature, involving several of the College’s functions. The Director of Institutional Research is available for consultation and support for special analysis projects, assistance with the gathering of data for informed decision-making, and may help members of the faculty by providing access to comparative data from national survey and research projects. The Office of Institutional Research is responsible for providing data used in college guidebooks, institutional publications, the National Center for Educational Statistics and the Integrated Postsecondary Data System (IPEDS). A Common Data Set is produced annually and publicly available. The Director of Institutional Research reports to the President, with a dotted reporting line to the Dean of the College, but responds to requests for analysis from any office of the College after appropriate consultation.