Office of Institutional Research

The Office of Institutional Research (OIR) strives to serve the College community by providing accurate, relevant, and timely data to both internal and external constituencies and informs the decision making and planning processes that support the College’s mission and goals.

The responsibilities of the Office are

• To provide census data and be the key contact for external mandated reporting requirements and surveys, such as IPEDS, Middle States Institutional Profile, College Board, US News, Common Data Set, AICUP, and PA Department of Education.
• To provide data to the Cedar Crest community providing dashboards, a fact book, data for the periodic program review, and any ad-hoc studies to staff, faculty, and administration.
• To administer and analyze student surveys regarding new students, graduating students, and alumnae. Will provide data from the national student clearinghouse in this regard.
• To administer the course evaluations for Cedar Crest.