The role of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) is to analytically support the planning, academic, administrative, and assessment functions of the College with timely, accurate, and forward looking information. OIRP is a College-wide research and planning resource reporting to the President. The range of assistance provided is very broad -- ranging from financial aid modeling to space analyses and alumni surveying.

OIRP broadly informs, but does not make, campus policy. As such, OIRP is necessarily unbiased and does not publicly support or endorse particular viewpoints within ongoing campus debates. Instead, the Office strives to provide appropriate information and context to campus decision makers and stakeholders.