Top 10 Reasons Why We Love Institutional Research
- Just one word....IPEDS
- Showing the Provost how biology lab rats can be counted in graduation and retention studies
- Unwavering faith that someday someone will devise a foolproof method for quantifying faculty workload
- Getting to say things like "Although the state appropriations per FTE have decreased 4% over the last three years, the instructional allocation ratio has risen significantly" in front of the President
- Explaining CUPA definitions to department heads
- Thrill of living on the edge when the College of Business makes last-minute data requests
- Those delightful folks at SPSS Technical Support
- Playing the IR acronym guessing game: HBCU, CSRDE, CDS, SRTK, SREB, NCES, GRS, SPRE
- On some reports, I change 6's to 9's and 9's to 6's -- just for fun
- While completing the staff salary report, momentarily enjoying the look of $500,000 next to my name