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Welcome to the Office of Assessment and Institutional Research. This office supports and advances the strategic goals of the university by providing official comprehensive, timely and user-friendly information for institutional planning, policy formation, decision-making and evaluation projects and processes. In addition to ensuring the accuracy of university data, OAIR coordinates responses for internal and external accountability mandates and requests for information about the campus. OAIR also develops survey instruments and coordinates the implementation of university-wide surveys.

OAIR provides services in three major areas:

  • External Reporting. OAIR has primary responsibility for preparing and submitting official reports and data files to ensure the University's compliance with UW-System, state, and federal reporting mandates. OAIR coordinates responses to requests for information received from the media, publishers of college guides, local government, the general public, and other institutions.
  • Internal Planning Support. OAIR is charged with compiling, analyzing, and interpreting statistical data used for planning by university administrators and committees. This information is disseminated to the UWM community through annual reports published via our website, as well as through responses to ad hoc requests Examples of this data includes:

    • student characteristics
    • admissions
    • enrollment
    • retention and graduation rates
    • courses taught
    • credit hour production
    • degrees awarded
    • teaching workloads
    • employee characteristics
    • revenue and expenditures
    • research productivity
  • Campus Data Support. OAIR is deeply involved in campus data and warehouse issues. Activities in this area includes:

    • Coordinating with data custodial offices to ensure data integrity and end-user functionality.
    • Working with functional office staff to populate the campus data dictionary
    • Develop/revise data views in the campus data warehouse to meet changing campus needs and ensure ease of use
    • Develop/revise query functions and reports for campus use
    • Develop new methods of reporting that allow non-technical users easy access to needed data

 

If you have a request for information, please contact us at air-web@uwm.edu or 414.229.2721

Please note: priority projects and resource limitations define much of our work. Alternative methods of accessing the data may be suggested or some requests may not be fulfilled if they fall outside of the purview of OAIR. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.

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Related University Services
Office of Budget & Planning
I&MT Data Administration
Ctr. for Instructional & Professional Development
Acad. Program Planning & Review
Access to Success

 
OAIR - UWM - Phone: 414-229-2721 - Contact: air-web@uwm.edu
last updated: June 16, 2011