The Department of Institutional Effectiveness and Research (IER) serves Texas A&M University-Commerce in a variety of capacities to ensure student success, and promote strategic planning and continuous data-driven improvement.
The Department of Institutional Effectiveness and Research (IER) serves Texas A&M University-Commerce in a variety of capacities to ensure student success, and promote strategic planning and continuous data-driven improvement.
Institutional Effectiveness serves as the support and resource center for strategic planning and continuous data-driven improvement.
Institutional Research (IR) supports the ongoing process of collecting, analyzing, reporting, and warehousing quantitative and qualitative data about the institution’s students, faculty and staff. IR provides information to support university decision-making through a variety of analytic activities, data-gathering tasks, and research projects. IR works with offices and individuals internally and externally to maintain data/report integrity and quality to fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning.
Guide faculty and administrators through program approvals
Assist in efforts to assess student learning
Guide the accreditation processes for colleges, programs, and the university
Provide institutional data, both by term and over-time
Administer and analyze surveys for future action
Complete mandatory reporting at the System Office, the state, and federal levels
IER Events are professional development opportunities for faculty and staff. They offers skills, knowledge, and best practices in active workshop or course settings designed to strengthen the growth of existing efforts and utilization of data towards continuous improvement.
For full event descriptions and registration visit our IER Events Page.
Institutional Effectiveness serves as the support and resource center for strategic planning and continuous data-driven improvement. It is the mission of this office to assist and coordinate assessment, facilitate accreditation, assist in the development of new academic programs, and communicate information that supports strategic continuous improvement.
Learn how to use the university's reporting tool, request a report, and explore our FAQ section.
Explore the data we've collected from our surveys, including the Graduation Exit Survey, Common Data Set and NSSE survey.
Academic program requests must first follow Texas A&M University-Commerce procedures 03.02.99.R0.01, Academic Approval Procedures for Programs, and 03.02.99.R0.03, Programmatic and Administrative Substantive Changes Approval Process. After internal approvals are completed the request will then move through the required external approval process, if necessary. It is recommended that substantial time is allowed for a proposal to proceed through all levels of approval, especially if the proposal will require approvals from all three of our external approving bodies: The Texas A&M University System (System), Board of Regents (BOR), the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
Texas A&M University-Commerce and many of our academic programs and schools have received accreditation from specific agencies.
On October 29, 2010, the Department of Education published regulations that require institutions of higher education to publish information regarding students enrolled in Title IV eligible programs leading to gainful employment. The information disclosed includes a list of occupations that a program prepares students to enter, on-time graduation rate for students completing the program, tuition and fees, cost of books and supplies, median loan debt incurred by students who complete the program, and job placement rate for students completing the program.
For the latest information, go to Texas Higher Ed Data and use the menus to access data for Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Texas CREWS (Consumer Resource for Education and Workforce Statistics)
How to access the Dashboards (PDF)
How to access the Dashboards (Video)
Information on the IE 18-19 Results and 19-20 Plan Forms
Substantive Change Focused-Topic Webinars