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Thursday, March 14, 2024 NSC Getting Ready to Unveil StudentTracker 3.0 for High Schools » By Bill DeBaun , Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes National College A...
Thursday, February 8, 2024 Research Roundup: Fall 2023 Enrollment Is Up, ASAP Really Works & More! » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes It can be hard to...
Monday, January 22, 2024 FAFSA Is Live, But Data Delays Will Stall FAFSA Tracker’s Launch » By Bill DeBaun, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes The 2024-25 FAFSA is, at long (long,...
Monday, December 18, 2023 NCAN Data Point: More Than Half of Members Have NSC StudentTracker » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes The National College At...
Monday, November 27, 2023 Eight CCR-Related Survey Findings from School Leaders That Will Surprise You » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Eight minutes Note: This article w...
Monday, November 27, 2023 NCAN Hosts NSC HS Benchmarks Webinar; NSC Announces Fall “Effective Date” » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes Earlier this month, the...
Monday, September 18, 2023 New HS Benchmarks Report Shows Gains, Gaps for Class of 2022 » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Services Reading time: Two minutes Note: NSCRC uses the wo...
Friday, July 28, 2023 New NSCRC Report: Second-Year Persistence Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes The National Stud...
Friday, July 21, 2023 New NCAN-NSC Agreement Offers Discount for StudentTracker for Ed Orgs Users » Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Services Reading time: Two minutes A new agreement between...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 NCAN’s Common Measures & Data Tools Help Members Measure Students’ Outputs, Outcomes » Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes The National Colleg...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 Five Sentence Findings: Dual Enrollment, Falling College Prices, and More » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes “In this world, no...
Monday, April 17, 2023 Survey: Middle, High School Teachers Diverge on CCR Plans, Metrics » Reading time: Four minutes High school teachers largely agree that their school both has a plan for advancing stud...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 New Report Shows States are Undermeasuring College and Career Readiness, How to Fix » Read time: Two minutes 2023 will mark eight years since the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law....
Friday, February 17, 2023 Research Roundup: Peer Counseling, Universal Pre-K, and Getting Parents to Read Email » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Four minutes It can be hard to...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 In Rare Good News Trifecta, FAFSAs, Applications, and Enrollments Are All Up » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes As the National...
Friday, January 20, 2023 Shifting Narratives: Centering Race in Defining and Measuring College Value » Reading time: Two minutes The following is an excerpt from a recent report by The Institute for College Access a...
Sunday, January 15, 2023 Virginia Data Shows College Access Supports’ Positive Impacts » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes Get students the r...
Monday, November 28, 2022 As Year Winds Down, Use NSC Data to Plan Next Steps » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes The National Stu...
Friday, November 18, 2022 College Visits as Postsecondary Outcome Predictor Study » Reading time: Three minutes College visits can be predictors of postsecondary enrollment for rural students, accor...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 First Study on College Affordability for Indigenous Students Offers Valuable Insights » Reading time: Three minutes The benefits to higher education are worth pursuing despite the significant barriers p...
Friday, October 28, 2022 Class of 2021 Enrollment Outcomes Decline, Offer More Evidence of COVID-19's Impact » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes High school...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 College Affordability Challenges Persist for Students from Low-income Backgrounds » By Raymond AlQaisi, Senior Manager of Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Two minutes Students from low-income...
Monday, October 24, 2022 Undergrad Enrollment Down 1.1% at the End of September » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes Undergraduate enrollm...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Eminently Bookmarkable Papers Consider College Costs, Barriers » Reading time: 2 min. Drs. Susan Dynarski , Lindsay C. Page , and Judith Scott-Clayton have been hard at work...
Friday, June 10, 2022 Why and How to Incorporate Earnings Data Into College Access Advising » Reading time: 4-5 min. The College Scorecard from the U.S. Department of Education can help students compare po...
Friday, June 10, 2022 RISE’s Postsecondary Tracker Offers Data Insights to Counselors » Reading time: 7 min. The RISE Network (RISE) recently launched a comprehensive postsecondary tracker that allow...
Thursday, May 26, 2022 New Brief Focuses on Using Data to 'Lift' Completion » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: 5 min. Where students matricu...
Friday, May 13, 2022 New Report Offers Roadmap for Increasing Attainment for Students with Some College, No Degree » Reading time: Five minutes In 2018, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) launched the Degrees When...
Friday, February 18, 2022 New Study: Adult Support During Postsecondary Planning Enhances College-Going Behaviors and Outcomes » Reading time: 2 min. Across the country, many states have implemented early education and career planning (ECP) r...
Monday, January 31, 2022 Test-Optional Policies: A Review of Recent Research » Reading time: 3-4 min. The number of higher education institutions using test-optional policies in admissions dec...
Monday, January 3, 2022 Study: Restrictions on Majors Dissuade, Divert Underrepresented Students » Reading time: 2 min. There has been an increase in "major restriction" policies at public universities over recen...
Thursday, December 16, 2021 GuidEd Insight Will Visualize Outcomes Data and Then Transform How We Use It » Reading time: 9 min. Outside of the National Student Clearinghouse itself, you’d be hard-pressed to find an organizati...
Monday, December 13, 2021 Members’ Measures Matter: Education Opens Doors Keeps Students Moving Forward » Reading time: 3 min. Earlier this year, NCAN released our 2021 National College Access and Success Benchmarkin...
Monday, December 6, 2021 As 2021 Winds Down, Use NSC StudentTracker Data to Plan Next Steps » Reading time: 4 min. The National Student Clearinghouse recently announced that its "effective date" for th...
Monday, December 6, 2021 New NSCRC Report Demolishes 'Gap Year' Theory for Class of 2020 » Reading time: 4 min. Someday a report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center will again be a har...
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