In continuing our spring series on enrollment trends in higher education, it is no coincidence that one of the hottest topics of conversation currently circling is the “enrollment cliff.” From legislative hearings to board meetings to podcasts to newsprint, the pending downturn in higher education enrollment, closely linked to the “birth dearth” in the United…
For a number of years, much of the talk in higher education circles has been about the pending ‘enrollment cliff’ that is projected to have widespread effect over the course of the next 10-15 years. The publication of Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education (Grawe, 2018) brought the concept of the ‘demographic cliff’ to…
In our first post of this new series, we saw that Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America. The 2.8-million job increase from the actual 13.9 million jobs in 2022 to the predicted 16.8 million jobs in 2034 places Texas…
With the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, most people in education view life from the perspective of new beginnings. However, for millions of students across the country, the start of the fall semester actually means their college-level course of study is coming to a close. For these students, they will be hitting the full-time…
This blog entry serves as the final in our summer series presenting data and insights from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. Our previous blog posts have explored data on educational outcomes for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on success measures at three different timepoints: high school graduation,…
We continue our summer blog series reviewing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. In our previous blog post, we presented data on educational outcomes for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on students’ economic status, finding that just over 9 percent of economically disadvantaged students completed a…
We continue our summer blog series reviewing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) 8th grade cohort study, now known as the “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. This blog post builds on previous entries (here and here) by exploring educational outcome data for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on students’ economically disadvantaged…
This blog post serves as the second in our summer series where we are looking at the the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) 8th grade cohort study, now known as the “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. In our previous blog post, we noted that 76% (823,083) of the 1.08 million students in the combined three-year 8th-grade cohort…
Within higher education circles, most discussions about student success center on 6-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who enroll right after high school graduation. More recent efforts, such as the IPEDS Outcome Measures that comprised our spring data blog series, have started tracking the success of transfer students in earning higher education credentials. While…