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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Doctoral Institutions For the past several blog entries, we have been rummaging through the data storehouses of the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) dataset, exploring average overall earnings for bachelor’s degreeholders by institution type, as well as the degree to which bachelor’s graduates are either non-employed or…
Exploring Earnings by Major in the PSEO Data: Multi-State Trends If you have been following the progression of our blog posts, the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) data has served as the primary content driver in the the past four blog entries. The posts in May (05/01/2021 and 05/15/2021) introduced average earnings for bachelor’s degreeholders by Carnegie…
Exploring Employment Trends in the US Census Bureau PSEO Data: Masters Institutions The release of the US Census Bureau’s Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) data has provided new information related to how much graduates are earning, where and in which industries they are employed, and to what extent graduates are either not employed or are marginally…