OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENT, RESEARCH AND PLANNING

The Institutional Research department helps in

• Collecting, maintaining, and preserving institutional data.
• Providing data analysis to inform executive decision-making and strategic planning initiatives.
• Engaging in systematic, continuous, and integrated research activities related to student/applicant, finance, grants and human resources data.
• Ensuring validity and reliability of the data and research methodologies utilized.
• Responding to federal and state mandated reporting requirements as well as requests from other external agencies as appropriate.
• Serving as the official reporting office for the institution.
• Facilitating program review and institutional assessment activities.
• Supporting regional and professional accreditation activities.
• Providing expertise in research methods and other higher education issues.

As implied by the mission statement and the activities listed, OIR has access to a wide variety of data elements from multiple systems of record. The data are considered as an institutional asset and as such are provided to faculty/staff with a legitimate need in accordance with the Code of Ethics and Professional Practice of the Association for Institutional Research, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Texas A&M International University Administrative Data Governance Policy.