Persistence and Retention: The National Perspective While the past few blog posts have specifically addressed enrollment trends in Texas public universities, this blog post will begin a multi-part series of posts that will look at student outcomes data. We will begin by looking at the national trends associated with persistence and retention before moving to…
In our previous posts, Exploring the “Some college, no bachelors” degree population and Educational Attainment in Texas, we reviewed national and state-level trends related to educational attainment levels of adults (25 and older). This final post in the three-part series narrows the focus within Texas even further, drilling down to county-level data specifically related to the…
In our previous post, Exploring the “Some college, no bachelors” degree population, we reviewed national trends related to educational attainment levels of adults (25 and older). This post narrows the focus to the landscape within the borders of Texas, looking first at statewide trends across educational attainment levels from 2009 to 2018 before reviewing county-level…
While most of us are familiar with the 10-year cycle of census-taking, many may not be aware that the US Census Bureau also conducts annual sampling of the US population in order to track shifts in population trends in-between the decennial accounting of Americans. The American Community Survey (ACS) data include an array of variables, from household descriptors to…