Welcome
The Mission of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (IR&A) is to provide and coordinate information support for planning, administering, and evaluating academic and administrative programs in ways that will continuously improve the State University of New York College at Cortland. The operations of the office can be divided into three overlapping functions;
- providing institutional data to internal and external constituents,
- providing assessment support to academic and support/service units, and
- providing administrative planning and research support.
Description of the Office
The Office of Institutional Research & Assessment is a service-oriented unit operating within the Academic Affairs division of the College, and reporting to the Provost. In the most general sense, we have three overlapping functions-reporting institutional data (both internally and externally), conducting institutional research/planning studies, and assessment-related activities. Although one can generally "label" any particular project or task as belonging to one of these three areas, much of what we do serves to facilitate all three areas.