Mission Statement
The Office of Analytics and Institutional Research (AIR) is the central source of
Snow College's data and statistics related to the College. AIR seeks to enhance and
democratize data at the College to ensure data-informed decision-making and responsible
stewardship over the College's resources.
To accomplish this mission, AIR:
- Helps define business processes that maintain and enhance data integrity.
- Manages data governance at the College
- Leverages data and transforms it into useful information that provides direction and
quality assurance for the College's mission to educate students for lives of purpose,
service, and leadership
- Provides proactive analytical resources
- Validates data
- Identifies and remedies data integrity issues
- Provides reliable, consistent, and operational reports and dashboards to the College
- Supports mission objectives by supplying data, information, and regular reporting
on Snow College’s strategies and projects, focusing on the areas of student success,
academics, recruitment & retention, employee satisfaction, and infrastructure changes
- Fosters the use of sound and innovative methods to gather, generate, analyze, report,
and manage data
- Provides accurate, consistent, relevant, and timely information that is accessible
to internal and external constituencies
- Facilitates the integration of this information into institutional decision making,
policy development, and planning processes
