Ohio Institutional Research and Planning Colleagues,

I have recently taken on the responsibility of serving
as Associate Editor for the Association for Institutional
Research's (AIR) Resources in Institutional Research
book series.  AIR members will be familiar with this as
the series of short monographs that are sent to AIR members
approximately once per year with titles such as "A
Primer on Institutional Research," "Questionnaire Survey
Research," and (most recently) "Effective Reporting."
Future plans for this series include periodic updates of
some of the "classics" as well as publication of monographs
on new topics.  I'd like to take this opportunity to ask
the OAIRP membership for its input on ideas for new issues.
What additional topics would you like to see included in
this series of practitioner-oriented IR books?  Please let
me know your thoughts at your convenience.  Thanks.

Bill Knight
1999-2000 OAIRP President





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shamelessly stolen IR and planning-related quotes:
"If you torture numbers long enough they'll confess to anything."
"If you want a green suit turn on a green light."
"You don't fatten the pig by weighing it."
(re 11th-hour info. requests) "If you want it bad, you may get it bad."
"Where you come from determines how you use your statistics."
"Don't give people a clock without telling them what time it is."
“Statistics are no substitute for judgment . . . and vice versa."
"People don't plan to fail; they fail to plan."
"Instead of worrying about the future, let us labor to create it."
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and change amid
order."