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We try to understand college opportunity through careful research and by listening to the students and those who serve them. We combine concrete, tailored policy recommendations with passionate, sophisticated advocacy, nationally and in California.
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A Policymaker’s Guide to Using New Student Debt Metrics to Strengthen Higher Education Accountability
Report considers three promising debt metrics that could complement and strengthen existing accountability metrics and ultimately move the needle on borrower success: debt-to-discretionary earnings ratios, earnings net of expected debt payments thresholds, and repayment rates.
Scaling Student Success: A National Proposal
Increasing college attainment offers tremendous promise for increasing social mobility, tackling poverty, and reducing racial and income inequality, aspirations that are more vital than ever as the devastating impact of the pandemic has fallen disproportionately on people of color. Yet for too many policymakers and practitioners, the path to growing our college completion ...
Key Finding
Nationally, more than six in ten (62 percent) college seniors who graduated from public and private nonprofit colleges in 2019 had student loan debt. These borrowers owed an average of $28,950. (Student Debt and the Class of 2019)
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California's Cradle-to-Career Data System
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California's Cradle-to-Career Data System
Join TICAS for California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System: The Power of Data to Inform Policy, a webinar focused on California’s current efforts to create the Cradle-to-Career Data System, and hear about how other states have utilized their data systems to inform relevant policy efforts.
California Community College Financial Aid Facts
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California Community College Financial Aid Facts
As the California Legislature considers proposals to strengthen the program and increase access to Cal Grants this year, a new series of fact sheets explores…
