About Institutional Research

What is Institutional Research at WPI?

The Office of Institutional Research collects, analyzes, and disseminates data about WPI. Along with ensuring that we have uniform and consistent statistical information for official reporting, IR provides support for WPI's planning and assessment.

Institutional Research's "data of record" statistics make it the primary source for WPI employees who are responding to external requests such as surveys, and are preparing internal reports that need statistical information. The office seeks to provide the official numbers for the institution by gathering its information and analyzing its data using the standardized definitions as a matter of policy. Our goal is to make the statistical information on the Web site available to all faculty and staff at WPI. The site is intended as the authoritative source for data-supported decision-making on a broader level and to make the office's resources better known to the University community.

The Association for Institutional Research has created a short wiki that provides some context about constitutes institutional research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_research

Personnel: Aaron Harp

I joined WPI in December, 2007. Previously, I was the Director of Institutional Research at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. Prior to moving New England, I performed consulting for various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service, specializing in evaluating the social and economic impacts of natural resource policies. From 1992 to 2002, I was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Rural Sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Idaho.

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