Building More Inclusive Systems for Who Counts: Part 1

This four-part webinar series features articles from the Summer 2024 Special Issue of AIR Professional File. In Part 1, authors of two papers provide overviews of their papers and engage in dialogue with each other, the editor, and the audience.

• Building More Inclusive Institutional Research for Disabled Populations in the Campus Community
• The Intersectionality of First-Generation Students and Its Relationship to Equity Gaps in Postsecondary Outcomes

While institutional research is a mainstay for providing replicable and standardized data about university populations such as faculty, staff, and students, our systems too often limit who can be counted, and in what ways those individuals can be described. Institutional data collection and reporting systems need better ways to identify who comprises our institutional communities, with attention to upholding the autonomy, confidentiality, and privacy of minoritized individuals. Institutional data collection and reporting systems need better ways to identify who comprises our institutional communities with attention to upholding the autonomy, confidentiality, and privacy of minoritized individuals.

• Consider “who counts” in higher education data
• Identify strategies to systematically gather and report information about overlooked groups and/or statuses in higher education
Understand the importance of responsible data use

Registration Information

Attendees will have access to the webinar recording for 30 days following the live event.

Length/Time Commitment

45 Minutes