Data, Evidence, and Information

The Department of Education (ED) indicated earlier this month it will conduct a negotiated rulemaking process this year to propose new regulations for distance education, among other higher education topics. One area of distance education ripe for review is the requirement that online college programs provide “regular and substantive interaction” between faculty and students....

Robust longitudinal education and workforce data are integral in addressing disparities in educational opportunities and economic outcomes. However, not all…

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. 

TICAS partnered with University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Associate Professor Ozan Jaquette, University of Arizona Assistant Professor Karina Salazar, data scientist Crystal Han, and UCLA Phd student Patricia Martin to release a series of three comprehensive reports that explain and analyze the currently unregulated business of generating student prospects.

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.

New series highlights baseline statistics on access to the federal Pell Grant program and completion rates for U.S. higher education institutions by three sectors—community colleges, non-profit institutions, and for-profit colleges.