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About the College
Office of Institutional Research
About the Office of Institutional Research (OIR)
The OIR is housed within the Dean’s Office and reports to the Associate Dean of Academic Programs. This arrangement reflects its primary focus on the quality of the College’s educational offerings.
Mission
The mission of the Office of Institutional Research is to provide timely, valid and useful information in support of planning and decision-making, particularly as they relate to the quality of its academic programs.
Values
The Office of Institutional Research is committed to quality, integrity, transparency, collaboration, and autonomy. It conducts its functions according to the principle that student learning matters most.
Services
Research: The OIR produces research reports according to a set calendar
Ad-hoc requests: If you can’t find what you are looking for among the posted reports, please contact the OIR to discuss your specific request.
Academic data management: The OIR manages locally-collected (i.e., local to the College) academic data and serves as the content expert for centrally-collected (i.e., University and Graduate School) academic data.
Office of Institutional Research
What is “Institutional Research’?
Institutional research has come to mean research that pertains to any and all aspects of an educational institution, such as admissions, enrollments, student life, curricula, faculty, finances, etc. Here, the more general definition of “research” applies - e.g., the collecting of information about a particular subject (Merriam-Webster) – than the more rigorous hypothesis-driven process the word often represents, particularly at a university such as the UW. As institutional researchers, we collect, analyze, report and warehouse data, both quantitative and qualitative, from a number of disparate sources to answer questions about the college/university and the environment in which it operates.
Staff
Karen Matheson, OIR Manager
kemath@u.washington.edu
(206) 221-4695