Institutional researchers and higher education data professionals play a critical role in supporting data-informed decision-making, yet the increasing demands of our work can lead to stress, burnout, and work-life imbalance. This ...

The University of Maryland has used Love Data Week as a vehicle to engage campus in conversations that promote data literacy. From the initial foray in 2023, which included a small number of staff focused sessions conducted by IR,...

In the real world of IR/IE, perfect survey data do not exist. Low response rates, disengaged respondents, and unrepresentative samples are common challenges that can compromise survey validity — yet these issues are often ig...