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In an announcement on September 13, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education extended the reporting deadline for institutions under the Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) rules to January 15, 2025...

Several important updates and resources are now available as many in the AIR community prepare for the federal reporting requirement of the Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment regulations. Continue to che...

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced March 29, 2024, that institutions will have until October 1, 2024, to provide all Financial Value Transparency (FVT) and Gainful Employment (GE) reporting require...

On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently announced significant revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, which governs the standards for collecting, maintaining, and presenting federa...

The 2024 federal funding bill released March 21, 2024, provides continuity and support for the integrity of national postsecondary student aid study data collection. The bill directs the Institute of Education Sciences (...

The Value Data Collaborative (VDC) is an innovative initiative that empowers participants to conduct original research, dive into analytics and data infrastructure, collaborate with peers, and drive meaningful changes in...

Mark your calendar: The 2023 CUPA-HR Employee Retention Survey, which opens on April 10, 2023, will collect responses from staff employees (not faculty) who work in all sectors of higher education on timely topics such a...

The period for submitting comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on its proposed revisions to statistical standards for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data closes April 12. Additional comment...

Over the last five years, the International Network of Research Management Societies’ (INORMS) Research Evaluation Group has been working hard to develop new frameworks for assessment and evaluation of research...

The Faculty, Academic Careers & Environments (FACE) project is launching the first of two components—the Institutional Questionnaire. FACE is based out of the University of Southern California’s Pullias C...

The Admissions Research Consortium (ARC) aims to help colleges understand how the impacts of the pandemic are shaping their incoming classes, and how these impacts might continue to affect college performance outcomes in...

New research from CUPA-HR shows that higher education institutions are in the midst of a talent crisis, as many staff, professionals and administrators are considering other employment opportunities due to dissatisfactio...

NCES has recently published a webpage providing information on the similarities and differences between the three IPEDS surveys components primarily focused on measuring student success: Graduation Rates (GR), Graduation...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) published the 2022 Condition of Education, which contains key indicators on all levels of education, labor force outcomes, and international comparisons. Dow...

The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education of the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the University of Pennsylvania Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (PennAHEAD) together re...

There are many options available to students today, making college transfers more common, but the state, system and federal policies in place have not evolved to provide better support. Policies are often structured to s...

With increasing pressure on colleges and universities to raise completion rates, predictive analytics is being used to identify at-risk students. The authors of this article put six models to the test to find out if &ld...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an even greater increase in interest for nondegree and skills training options, but the Center for Education Consumer Insights notes their quality and value has often been debatable. In this ...

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) today released a brief highlighting polling data regarding student access to internet and devices. Online Isn’t Optional: Student Polling on Access to Internet ...

The higher ed professional workforce decreased slightly in size during the pandemic, though certain positions saw notable increases. According to CUPA-HR’s 2021 Professionals in Higher Education Annual Report relea...