As the next Medicare annual open enrollment period approaches, millions of Medicare beneficiaries must decide whether to change their coverage options. AIR researchers found that many beneficiaries are overwhelmed by Medicare’s complexity and could benefit from one-on-one counseling to help them make better choices. ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) have created a new examination for assessing the human resource (HR) knowledge of graduating college students seeking HR careers. The first tests will be administered beginning in May 2011.
Researchers from AIR will work with traumatic brain injury stakeholders to co-create a TBI&Work Toolkit with resources that are comprehensive, user-friendly, evidence-based, strength-based, and easy to use for TBI self-management in the workplace.
Black and Hispanic students have cut their high school dropout rates and increased their rates of college attendance, according to a new study conducted by AIR for the National Center for Education Statistics. Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups 2016 is the latest in a ...
My Future TX, a new bilingual website developed by College Measures in cooperation with leading high school guidance counselors, combines higher education and workforce data of use to students trying to make the right decisions about which Texas college or university best suits their goals.
Financial and performance trends suggest that, five years after the onset of the recession, higher education finally began to show signs of a fiscal recovery. But are students still picking up some of the slack?
In this blog post, Mark Schneider discusses the disconnect between what students and faculty expect from a college education, and how to reconcile those differences.
This report examines both the educational progress of American Indian/Alaska Native children and adults and challenges in their education, and shows that over time more American Indian/Alaska Native students have gone on to college and that their attainment expectations have increased.
AIR is working with the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability to examine a rarely studied aspect of higher education finance: how colleges and universities spend money.
Colleges are increasingly hiring lower-paid part-time and limited-term contingent faculty, who in 2013 made up more than half of all instructors in higher education, finds an AIR) study for the TIAA Institute. This trend has led to cost savings in salaries and benefits for instructors, but hasn’t translated to the ...