The Institutional Research Office at BSU produces research reports on topics of interest to the BSU community and other stakeholders. Most of our research reports are driven by collaboration with BSU staff who have attended the Data Literacy Institute, offered by the Association for Institutional Research in partnership with IRDS (details available here). On this page, we have collected the research reports we have completed over the last several months. Some are available here in full, while others are available as briefs, and some are made available upon request. We will add to this page as new research is completed.

Note, in this context, ‘research’ is intended to mean topics of interest to BSU exclusively for the use of BSU to improve programs and processes, and is not intended to be generally applicable to other contexts.

Complete

• Understanding the Relationship Between DFW Grades and First-Year Retention
• Supporting Sophomore Success: A Closer Look at Retention Beyond the First Year

In-progress

• Changing Majors and Graduation Outcomes: Research Brief & Blog Post – Expected End of September
• Pre-College Credit Study: Report, Research Brief, and Blog Post – Expected End of Fall Term
• Transfer Students and Time to Degree: Research Brief & Blog Post – Expected End of Fall Term

Planning

• Examining Retention for Pell and Non-Pell Eligible Students
• Alerts and Academic Performance
• Update to Understanding Student Balances and Retention

Available upon request

• Student Balance Report