Institutional Research & Institutional Effectiveness
The Office of Institutional Research and Institutional Effectiveness is responsible for collecting,
analyzing, and disseminating institutional data to the Louisiana College community to support its
strategic planning, policy-making, and ongoing institution-wide evaluation processes. It is the goal of
the Office Institutional Research and Institutional Effectiveness to provide consistent, reliable, and
accurate data and information in a timely manner and on a regular basis. The Office of Institutional
Research and Institutional Effectiveness continually strives to improve its data gathering, reporting,
and presentation techniques to ensure that college information is as accurate, accessible and meaningful
as possible. The office also respects and guards individual privacy within the guidelines of the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act (FERPA). In keeping with this value, the office reports most information in the form of aggregate
data, which cannot be traced to an individual. Occasionally, and only for official college business, it
is necessary to share data specific to individuals.
Institutional Research works with data from a variety of areas including, but not limited to, students,
faculty, staff, programs, and services. Some of the reports distributed by the office are the
Louisiana College Fact Book, the
Annual graduating Senior Questionnaire,
the Alumni Survey, and provides data for popular
college guides such as
U.S.News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges.
Institutional Effectiveness is dedicated to providing leadership to the planning, implementation,
administration, and evaluation of Louisiana College’s ongoing institutional effectiveness program.
Specifically, IE works to integrate assessment results with Louisiana College’s strategic plan
and ensure compliance with the principles of accreditation issued by the Commission on Colleges of the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).