{"id":1083,"date":"2013-04-18T23:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:41:13","slug":"why-ir-is-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Why IR is hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?attachment_id=1125\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1125\" alt=\"Application_Page_1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Application_Page_1-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Application_Page_1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Application_Page_1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Application_Page_1.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>With an increasing amount of my time for the past two years spent with the Provost&#8217;s Office and the College in general helping to guide our assessment efforts, the IR Office has been struggling mightily to keep up with our work. \u00a0 In January we were approved for an additional limited term position in the IR office to help offset the loss of my time. \u00a0The need for the position will be reevaluated in three years, which corresponds to the term of the new (second) Associate Provost position. \u00a0 This is not an accident. \u00a0Since both positions are intended to relieve overloads caused, at least in part, by our needs for assessment and institutional effectiveness leadership, it makes sense to review this new infrastructure a few years down the road to see how it is serving us, as our assessment processes improve and our work becomes more routine.<\/p>\n<p>With this additional IR position and <a title=\"Transition\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=1073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex&#8217;s departure<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be in a way replacing both Alex and myself, as I continue focusing more on assessment and on our upcoming accreditation mid-term report.\u00a0\u00a0 But while Alex and I shared much of the responsibilities for IR reporting and research in the past, I&#8217;ll be structuring the two positions to more separately reflect these two key roles. \u00a0 A Data and Reporting Officer will have primary responsibility for data management, and routine and ad hoc reporting for internal and external purposes. \u00a0An Institutional Research Associate (the limited term position) will focus more on special studies, and is expected to provide the advanced analytic skills to our projects. \u00a0 These two positions, and mine, will share somewhat in responsibilities and have just enough overlap to serve us in those many &#8220;all hands&#8221; moments. \u00a0 It should be an exciting time for Institutional Research &#8211; and for assessment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an increasing amount of my time for the past two years spent with the Provost&#8217;s Office and the College in general helping to guide our assessment efforts, the IR Office has been struggling mightily to keep up with our work. \u00a0 In January we were approved for an additional limited term position in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=1083\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why IR is hiring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}