Institutional Research, Planning & Effectiveness

IRPE has responsibilities to:

• assure data quality
• maintain official university statistics
• collect and analyze institutional data for decision support
• conduct research studies on the issues of special interest
• respond to national and international surveys about the institution
• respond to internal and external data requests

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CWRU ranking indicators were updated in the fact book (December 11, 2017)

The fall 2017 profile and other statistics were added to the fact book (September 24, 2017)

Expense data from FY 1987 to FY 2016 were added to the fact book (February 27, 2017)

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The Office of Institutional Research, Planning & Effectiveness supports the University’s efforts in monitoring progress on the Strategic Plan by developing, maintaining, and communicating key metrics.

Five Key Questions for Institutional Effectiveness

1. What are we doing?
2. Why are we doing it?
3. How well are we doing it?
4. How do we know?
5. How do we use results to improve?

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