The office of strategic information resources assists the campus community in its planning efforts by tracing, documenting and forecasting the processes and development of Xavier University. Institutional research is the responsibility of this office.

Institutional research serves to join the educational, administrative and informational activities of the University. The office engages in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data about the state of Xavier and how well the University achieves its goals. It uses its resources to provide to members of the Xavier community reliable information in support of decision making, planning and the identification of new initiatives, as well as to satisfy requests for data by external agencies.