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Thursday, October 16, 2025 Six Findings on Americans' Views of Higher Education » Reading time: Six minutes In July, New America released its 9th annual Varying Degrees survey on higher e...
Sunday, October 5, 2025 Building Better Outcomes with Postsecondary Data: A New Playbook for Districts » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Four minutes Good intent...
Saturday, October 4, 2025 Taking Student Survey Data Seriously: Insights From 15,000 High Schoolers » By Andrew Schmitz, Senior Managing Director, and Dr. Rachel Martin, Senior Director of Program Learning, at OneGoal...
Thursday, October 2, 2025 NSCRC: HS Class of 2024’s Enrollment Remained Stable, Stubborn Gaps Remain » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes The high school cl...
Thursday, September 18, 2025 New Research on College Savings Accounts Highlights Gaps, Financial Literacy » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes College savings ac...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 Research Roundup: Transfer Outcomes, College Undersupply, Education & Earnings, & More » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes It can be hard to k...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 Survey Data Considers Why Students Don’t Complete FAFSA » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Four minutes “Why don’t mo...
Monday, July 28, 2025 New Study Finds Positive Impacts of High School CCR Curricula » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives, and Karina Delgado, Communications Intern Reading tim...
Sunday, July 27, 2025 Eight Interesting Things I Learned About NSC’s StudentTracker 3.0 » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Seven minutes Earlier this sprin...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 Research Roundup: Credential Outcomes, Gen Z Perspectives, “Some College, No Credential” Growing » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes It can be hard to...
Monday, June 23, 2025 Research Roundup: Not Just Financial Aid - Enabling Affordability Guarantees Through Tuition Policy » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Five minutes Education Counsel is out w...
Sunday, June 1, 2025 Undergrad Enrollment Up 3.5% This Spring; Two-Years Lead the Way Again » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes The National St...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 New Survey Data: Financial Realities Undermine Student Success » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Iniativies Reading time: Six minutes More than half of surve...
Friday, May 9, 2025 State Boards Highlight Universal FAFSA, CCR Metrics/Frameworks » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes The State Educa...
Monday, April 28, 2025 Research Roundup: Studies Highlight Challenges with College Persistence, Sense of Belonging » Reading time: Three minutes Amid growing concerns about educational equity and student success, staff cuts at the...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Clearinghouse’s StudentTracker 3.0 Rollout Underway for K-12 Users » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes National College A...
Thursday, March 13, 2025 Calling Districts/Schools: Share Your Postsecondary Data Tools for a National Playbook! » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes Well, it’s time on...
Monday, March 10, 2025 NSCRC’s College Completion Rates Hit Record Highs » Reading time: Two minutes The national six-year completion rate for students who entered college in the fall of 20...
Thursday, January 30, 2025 New NAEP Data Sound Early Warning for Postsecondary Pipeline » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes Last year’s 4 th...
Thursday, January 30, 2025 New Study: Universal FAFSA Increased Completion, (Some) Enrollment in Texas » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Four minutes Texas’ universal F...
Monday, January 27, 2025 Freshman Enrollment Grows 5.5% in Fall 2024 in Encouraging, Surprising Change » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Five minutes Total postseconda...
Friday, January 24, 2025 A Closer Look at Students, Parents, and Professionals’ 2024-25 FAFSA Experiences » By Alyssa Stefanese Yates, Alex Chewning Research Fellow at uAspire Reading time: Three minutes Although...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 A How-To Guide to High Quality, Data-Driven Advising: Part Three - Affordability » By Ryan Hoch, Co-Founder and CEO, Overgrad Reading time: Nine minutes In Part One of this series, I explored...
Monday, January 13, 2025 Forthcoming Revised Data Will Show Fall 2024 Freshman Enrollment Increased » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes Today, the National...
Sunday, January 12, 2025 A How-To Guide to High Quality, Data-Driven Advising: Part Two - Admissibility » By Ryan Hoch, Co-Founder and CEO, Overgrad Reading time: Eight minutes In Part One of this series, I explore...
Monday, December 2, 2024 Updated: 18-Year-Old College Enrollment Declined in 46 States » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Five minutes Important Update: I...
Thursday, November 14, 2024 Five Findings on How (and Whether) Schools Advise Students » By Andy Schmitz, Senior Managing Director of System Impact, OneGoal, and Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategi...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Updated: Freshman Enrollment Down 5% Following FAFSA Completion Declines » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Five minutes Important Update: I...
Friday, October 18, 2024 New Data, Deck Explore Dual Enrollment Approaches, Outcomes » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes Two new resources...
Friday, September 20, 2024 NSC Report: Enrollment, Completion Largely Stable; Persistence Ticks Up » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes The high school class o...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Rethinking Data: Leveraging Data Systems to Serve All Students » By Neshat Yazdani, Associate Director of Evaluation at College Access: Research & Action (CARA) Reading time: Se...
Monday, July 22, 2024 Leveraging Data for Equitable Improvements in Postsecondary Student Success » Reading time: Four minutes Despite progress in the college completion movement, disparities in postsecondary attai...
Monday, June 10, 2024 NSCRC: Number of “Some College, No Credential” Students Ticks Up to 36.8 Million » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Three minutes The recent "Some C...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 A How-To Guide to High Quality, Data-Driven Advising: Part One - Target Grad Rates » By Ryan Hoch, Co-Founder and CEO, Overgrad Reading time: Eight minutes Ensuring every student has high-quality post...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Report: States Can Improve Postsecondary Outcomes Data Sharing; Here’s How » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiatives Reading time: Two minutes Providing college an...
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