The role of institutional research (IR) is to provide institutional management with the information and reports they need to not only support, but also enable decision making and strategic planning.
Challenges in institutional research
IR teams receive a steady stream of ad hoc requests for information, reports and analysis from campus executives, administrators, academic units, government agencies and the media – often without warning and requiring extremely quick turnarounds. Yet disparate IT systems make it difficult to deliver the program assessments that leaders need to steer a wide range of institutional policies, decisions and planning functions.
How SAS® can help
How efficiently institutions handle inquiries, integrate information and personalize their intelligence delivery has a significant impact on overall effectiveness. Using SAS® to ensure accurate reporting, leaders are provided the opportunity at all levels to understand the big picture gleaned from data collected and cleansed from multiple sources.
SAS can help IR with:
- Data access from a wide variety of areas, such as information on students, faculty, programs, personnel, facilities, finance, etc.
- A strategic focus by enabling others to use self-service query capabilities that are available for all levels of users based on needs and skills.
- New and innovative ways to analyze data that create new opportunities to pursue other needed projects.
- Predictive analytics to target potential students and monitor current students to ensure their success.
- Reports that once took weeks can now take minutes to produce, thus allowing a proactive stance toward managing enrollment, retention and programs intended to help students succeed.
SAS allows you to overcome information barriers quickly, so you can consolidate, store, analyze and share high-quality information with the people who make critical decisions affecting your institution. With SAS, the right intelligence can be surfaced to the right people – at the right time, in the right format.
The SAS® solution
The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education consolidates planning or historical information, ensuring that current, consistent and reliable information is always available for institution decision makers. Whether the answers needed involve information about faculty, staff, students, finances, facilities, research or data from any school or campus function, SAS’ ability to consolidate, analyze and report information from across your institution or system supports informed, effective decision making.
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