The mission of the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) is summarized by two basic responsibilities: to establish and monitor the procedures and timelines that encompass the TROY-Dothan institutional effectiveness process; and to collect and provide institutional effectiveness information about TROY-Dothan educational programs, student services, and administrative processes. The overriding goal of the OIRE is to provide the University with the process and the information to support the operation, management, decision making, advocacy, and planning process of the administration. The mission of the OIRE was developed on the basis of the perspectives of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools on Institutional effectiveness and institutional research:
1. An institution is expected to develop a broad-based system to determine institutional effectiveness appropriate to its own context and purpose, to use the purpose statement as the foundation of planning and evaluation, to employ a variety of assessment methods, and to demonstrate the use of the results of the planning and evaluation process for both educational programs and support activities.
2. Institutional research must be an integral part of planning and evaluation and must be effective in collecting and analyzing data and disseminating results. An institution must regularly evaluate the effectiveness of its institutional research process and uses its findings for improvement.
