The IRO supports the College’s mission and institutional learning outcomes by providing the information needed to support institutional planning and data driven decision making. The IRO produces several reports for the HAWCC regularly, including:

• Hawaii Community College Annual Fact Book: This report includes information about students, service area, student enrollment information, admissions, degrees, faculty and staff information, financial aid data, graduation and persistence rates.

• HAWCC Strategic Planning Documentation: This report is a running record of key performance indicators for the college. The current strategic planning document on the web site, released in 2014, includes information about Native Hawaiian attainment, Distance Education measures, enrollments, Pell-grant participation, unclassified student counts, recent high school graduate data, full-time/part-time enrollment figures, Achieving the Dream Initiative measures, financial aid, remedial placements, enrollments, and completions, award achievement, numbers on transfer students (both in and out), GPA, CCSSE performance, and distance learning enrollment and achievement data and so on.

• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Data Feedback Report: This report is intended to provide institutions a context for examining the data they submitted to IPEDS.

• National Community College Benchmark Project: The NCCBP has been collecting community college data since 2004 and offers community colleges one site where their trend data is available. The powerful peer comparison tool lets colleges compare themselves to others on every benchmark. In 2013, 270 community colleges from across the United States participated in NCCBP.