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Pell Access and Completion Series | Part IV: Working with Pell Grant Completion Data
The final brief in a four-part series on the Pell Grant, Pell Part IV provides an overview of the reporting process for the whole series. It reviews the use of College Scorecard and IPEDS OM, followed by a review of missing data, and concludes with a comparison of completion rates using both data sources.
Highlighting Effective Practices in Using State Data Systems to Reach Postsecondary Attainment Goals
What do Texas, Massachusetts, and California have in common? Across the country, 46 states have set statewide attainment goals for the share of their population that has a college education.
Key Finding
Average student debt at graduation in 2020 ranged from $18,350 in Utah to $39,950 in New Hampshire, and new graduates’ likelihood of having debt varied from 39 percent in Utah to 73 percent in South Dakota. In nineteen states, average debt was more than $30,000, and it was over $35,000 in six states. (Student Debt and the Class of 2020)
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NEW: TICAS Brief analyzes two state data systems that offer lessons on successfully linking P-12, postsecondary, & workforce data sets. To address disparities in ed opportunities & economic outcomes, states need to build a robust data system: https://t.co/2fy9TjMcVG https://t.co/yiSWeUvU4M
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Shifting Narratives: Centering Race in Defining and Measuring College Value
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Shifting Narratives: Centering Race in Defining and Measuring College Value
TICAS introduces its Race and Economic Mobility metric, which captions economic outcomes by institutions' composition of racially marginalized students.
A Letter from TICAS President: Celebrating 2022, Ready for 2023
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A Letter from TICAS President: Celebrating 2022, Ready for 2023
2022 has been an extraordinary year for higher education, delivering substantial progress on many of our longstanding policy priorities. This year brought much-needed but long-delayed…
