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Monday, November 8, 2021 New Research on AVID, Upward Bound, & Postsecondary Advising Offers Useful Insights » Reading time: 3 min. As a trusted resource about what works in education, the Institute of Education Science’s W...
Monday, November 1, 2021 New NSC Report: Enrollment Tumbles Again; Associate Enrollment Down 14+% During Pandemic » Reading time: 3 min. Last week, the National Student Clearing House Research Center (NSCRC) released an updated r...
Monday, August 9, 2021 Want to Sign Up for NSC’s StudentTracker for High Schools? Here’s How! » Reading time: 2-3 min. Anyone casually familiar with our data prerogatives here at the National College Attainmen...
Friday, July 23, 2021 Members’ Measures Matter: Beyond 12 » Reading time: 5-6 min. This week, NCAN released our 2021 National College Access and Success Benchmarking Report...
Thursday, July 22, 2021 Members’ Measures Matter: Achieve Atlanta » Reading time: 2 min. This week, NCAN released our 2021 National College Access and Success Benchmarking Report,...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 Members’ Measures Matter: The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis » Reading time: 2-3 min. This week, NCAN released our 2021 National College Access and Success Benchmarking Report...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 NCAN Report: Member-Served Students’ Enrollment Exceeded National Benchmark » Reading time: 4 min. Students served by a sample of NCAN member organizations enrolled in postsecondary education at s...
Thursday, June 24, 2021 7 Questions Toward Tracking Students' Post-High School Outcomes » Reading time: 6 min. Do district and school personnel really know where their students go after high school gradu...
Monday, June 14, 2021 Enrollment Declines Continue Into Spring; Here’s How Communities Are Supporting Students » Reading time: 4 min. By Bill DeBaun, Director of Data and Evaluation, and Elizabeth Morgan, Director of External...
Monday, May 24, 2021 4 Things to Know About the New Postsecondary Value Commission Report » Reading time: 4 min. The Postsecondary Value Commission, convened in 2019 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
Thursday, May 20, 2021 Lessons from 4 States About Sharing Student-Level FAFSA Data » Reading time: 7 min. NCAN members know the importance of filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAF...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Study: COVID Affecting FAFSA Completions Among First-Gen Students, Those From Low-Income Backgrounds » Reading time: 2 min. Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completions are down 6.1% from this time la...
Monday, May 3, 2021 Get More from NCAN’s Affordability Data with Our Interactive Dashboard » Reading time: 2 min. Today, NCAN released the latest edition of our “Growing Gap” research on the affordability...
Monday, May 3, 2021 College Affordability Gap Grows for Students from Low-Income Backgrounds » Reading time: 5 min. Students from low-income backgrounds are experiencing a shrinking pool of truly affordable p...
Monday, April 12, 2021 7 Ways to Transform Your NSC Data… and Your Work » Reading time: 7 min. Earlier this year, NCAN presented “7 Ways to Transform Your NSC Data… And Your Work,” a webi...
Monday, April 12, 2021 How 5 College Access and Success Organizations Track and Use Student Data » Reading time: 7-8 min. By Zenia Henderson, Director of Member & Partner Engagement NCAN established the...
Monday, April 12, 2021 New Report Considers Time to Recoup College Costs » Reading time: 2 min. How long does it take for students from low-income backgrounds to recoup their college costs?...
Monday, April 5, 2021 Some NSC StudentTracker Fees to Increase; Here’s What You Need to Know » Reading time: 2 min. Earlier this year, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) increased the annual fee for som...
Monday, March 29, 2021 FAFSA Verification Reduced Enrollment, Harmed Underrepresented Students Most » Reading time: 4 min. Being selected for FAFSA verification decreased students’ likelihood of immediately enrollin...
Thursday, March 25, 2021 Updated NSC Data: Class of 2020 Fall Enrollment Dropped Nearly 7% » Reading time: 3 min. There’s good news and bad news about the class of 2020 fall enrollment data the National Studen...
Friday, March 19, 2021 Trust is Not Evenly Distributed on College Campuses, Studies Suggest » Reading time: 2 min. A new report from the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research suggests that studen...
Friday, March 12, 2021 New Survey Data Quantify Students' COVID Concerns » Reading time: 2-3 min. EAB recently surveyed 4,500 high school seniors about their college applications, FAFSA...
Thursday, February 18, 2021 New FSA Data Revise Verification Melt Estimate Downward & Other Tidbits » Reading time: 4 min. New data from Federal Student Aid (FSA) provide clearer insight into the effect of b...
Monday, January 18, 2021 New Research on Texting Focuses on Best Approaches » Reading time: 2 min. The newest issue of the Journal of College Access has some great research that NCAN members...
Monday, January 18, 2021 NCAN’s Benchmarking Project Returns Thanks to These Members » The Benchmarking Project is a collaborative effort between NCAN and its members to demonstrate the field’s impact on stu...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 NSC Report: High School Class of 2020 Shows Catastrophic Enrollment Declines » Update (3/25/21): After adding 50% more data and correcting for a process error, the National Student Clearinghouse Resea...
Monday, November 30, 2020 What’s Causing College Access Disparities, in 15 Charts » Charts are really useful. They can illuminate, clarify, and put into context realities that we miss by communicating the s...
Thursday, November 5, 2020 Make the Most of an NSC StudentTracker Subscription » NCAN members hopefully know by now about the importance of the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) and its StudentTrac...
Monday, October 26, 2020 New Study Demonstrates Damning Impacts of Student Loan Debt by Race and Ethnicity » A new study from the JP Morgan Chase & Co. Institute puts numbers to an inequitable reality that many NCAN memb...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 NSC Data: First-Time Enrollment Down 16% Through 9/24 » The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center's monthly releases on year-over-year enrollment trends, updated with da...
Monday, October 19, 2020 NCAN’s FAFSA Tracker Gets a Makeover, Returns for '21-22 Cycle » NCAN’s #FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker has become a favored resource for policymakers, practitioners, and the public, and...
Monday, September 28, 2020 New NSC Report: Through Early September, Undergrad Enrollments Down 2.5% » The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) is the best national-level source of data on students’ postsecondary outcomes, an...
Monday, August 10, 2020 How Colleges Can Better Prepare Latino Students for the Workforce » Colleges and universities, especially those Hispanic-Serving Institutions enrolling about two-thirds of Hispanic students...
Monday, July 27, 2020 Findings in 5 Sentences: Remedial Coursework, CUNY ASAP, and More » The production of new education research, much like 90-degree days in Washington, D.C., this year, is endless. Once again,...
Monday, July 6, 2020 Survey: School Principals Optimistic on Postsecondary Transition in COVID Era » School principals are increasing postsecondary transition services to seniors and are largely optimistic about those stude...
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