Year: 2021

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University Comparisons of Completion Outcomes for Community College Transfers in Texas

University Comparisons of Completion Outcomes for Community College Transfers in Texas In our last blog post, we presented data from a recent report published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) that addressed gaps in graduation outcomes for transfer students when comparing them with native students. The data were presented as a comparison of public university…

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Completion Outcomes for Community College Transfers to Public Universities in Texas

Completion Outcomes for Community College Transfers to Public Universities in Texas If you have been following recent higher education-related news and headlines, you are likely aware that the trends in student transfers are alarming, especially in terms of community college to university transfers. Within Texas, the number of first-time transfer students enrolling at public universities…

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Examining student-faculty similarities and graduation outcomes for Hispanic/Latinx students

Student-faculty similarity and graduation outcomes for Hispanic/Latinx students In our previous blog post, we examined the relationship between the demographic similarity of faculty to students on campus and six-year graduation rates for Black or African American students. Across Doctoral Universities and Master’s Universities, there is a positive association, as a higher representation of Black or African…

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Examining student-faculty similarities and graduation outcomes for African American students

Student-faculty similarity and graduation outcomes for African American students In our previous blog post, we introduced the concept of using location quotient (LQ) scores, which serve as a measure of demographic similarity of faculty to students, as a predictor of six-year graduation rates within race/ethnicity groups. In general, we saw that a higher representation of Black…

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Does student-faculty similarity improve graduation outcomes?

Does student-faculty similarity improve graduation outcomes? As has been the case with past data blogs, many of the conversations occurring in higher education are focused on the concepts associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Universities, systems, and state boards of higher education are grappling with the implications of DEI, especially in terms of identifying…

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Unemployment Rates by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Educational Attainment

Analyzing Unemployment Rates Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Educational Attainment This blog post serves as the last of in a series of three posts that explore a dataset from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that includes unemployment rate data. The previous posts have looked at overall trends by educational attainment level and trends by race/ethnicity and…

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Differences in Unemployment Rates by Educational Attainment, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex

Unemployment Rates by Educational Attainment, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex In our previous blog post, we introduced a dataset from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that includes unemployment rate data broken out by educational attainment level. That post explored the national data from the BLS’s Current Population Survey (CPS) that have been published on a…

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Differences in Employment Rates by Educational Attainment Levels

Differences in Employment Rates by Educational Attainment Levels For the past few months, we have camped out in the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) dataset, analyzing average earnings of bachelor’s degree-holders from data partner institutions in a variety of ways. The previous posts can be accessed at the data blog home page. While those posts…

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Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Masters Institutions

Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Masters Institutions The past six blog posts have been built upon the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) dataset. While these entries in no way exhaust the exploratory paths that could be taken through the PSEO data, this blog post will serve as our series finale of sorts…