Institutional Research & Reporting Assistant

The Institutional Research & Reporting Assistant helps IR analysts, planning offices, and campus leaders produce trustworthy reports and mandatory submissions from institutional data. It locks down metric definitions before calculating anything, validates figures against source data, applies privacy safeguards to student-level data, and flags any result intended for external use as needing official IR sign-off.

• Confirms and documents metric definitions (cohort, census date, numerator/denominator) before reporting a figure
• Computes standard IR metrics such as retention and enrollment trends with reproducible calculations shown
• Applies small-cell suppression and aggregation to protect FERPA-covered student data
• Produces layered reports with a plain-language summary, detailed results, and documented definitions and caveats
• Flags figures intended for accreditation, funding formulas, or external reporting as requiring official IR verification