The Office of Institutional Research provides research services to the Santa Rosa Junior College community.
The role of the Office of Institutional Research
The Office of Institutional Research exists as a service to the institution to provide both required and requested data analysis and reporting, particularly to support the district planning process. In addition, the research staff is a resource, available to consult with individuals and groups regarding their own research projects and to refer individuals and groups to existing sources of data and information.
As the Office of Institutional Research is relatively new, we need to establish a distinction between what we do and what other offices on campus do. Some entities, such as Admissions and Records, produce some of their own statistical reports, and we expect that to continue. The greatest potential for institutional role confusion seems to be between OIR and Computing Services. After consulting with Computing Services, we developed a working distinction between the services of the two offices:
Institutional Research Computing Services
Data Analysis and Reporting Data Extraction
Surveys Standard (existing) data reports
External Data
Thus, requests for institutional data should be referred to computing services; requests for data that include data analysis should be referred to Institutional Research.
