Data, Evidence, and Information

This fact sheet offers straightforward policy recommendations for Congress to improve postsecondary data tools and ensure that colleges provide students with clear, transparent, and comparable information about college costs.

In a newly released brief, The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) outlines how states like Iowa and Louisiana have successfully used data to define state goals and support initiatives and activities to increase FAFSA completion rates and ensure students are enrolling in postsecondary education.

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.