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Envisioning the National Postsecondary Infrastructure in the 21st Century

America's students, policymakers, and institutions need better information about our postsecondary system, especially in this era of rising college costs and stagnating completion rates. To address this problem, IHEP convened an expert working group to develop targeted recommendations for improving the national postsecondary data infrastructure. Below, explore the resulting series of 11 policy papers designed to inform state and federal data policy conversations.

Videos from the paper series launch event are now available online.

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Papers

 
Creating a Thriving Postsecondary Education Data Ecosystem

Creating a Thriving Postsecondary Education Data Ecosystem

Archie Cubarrubia
Miami Dade College

Patrick Perry
WestEd

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Assessing and Improving State Postsecondary Data Systems

Assessing and Improving State Postsecondary Data Systems

John Armstrong
State Higher Education
Executive Officers Association

Katie Zaback
Complete College America

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Building a Student-Level Data System

Building a Student-Level Data System

Ben Miller
Center for American Progress

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Classroom to Career: Leveraging Employment Data to Measure Labor Market Outcomes

Classroom to Career: Leveraging Employment Data to Measure Labor Market Outcomes

Rachel Zinn
Workforce Data Quality Campaign

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Fostering State-to-State Data Exchanges

Fostering State-to-State Data Exchanges

Brian T. Prescott
National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

Patrick Lane
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

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Institutional Research Capacity: Foundations of Federal Data Quality

Institutional Research Capacity: Foundations of Federal Data Quality

Randy L. Swing
Association for Institutional Research

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Leveraging What We Already Know: Linking Federal Data Systems

Leveraging What We Already Know: Linking Federal Data Systems

David A. Bergeron
Center for American Progress

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The National Student Clearinghouse as an Integral Part of the National Postsecondary Data Infrastructure

The National Student Clearinghouse as an Integral Part of the National Postsecondary Data Infrastructure

Afet Dundar and Doug Shapiro
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center

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Putting the “Integrated” Back into IPEDS: Improving the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to Meet Contemporary Data Needs

Putting the “Integrated” Back into IPEDS: Improving the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to Meet Contemporary Data Needs

Jamey Rorison and Mamie Voight
Institute for Higher Education Policy

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Understanding Information Security and Privacy in Postsecondary Education Data Systems

Understanding Information Security and Privacy in Postsecondary Education Data Systems

Joanna Lyn Grama
EDUCAUSE

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Using – and Improving – Federal Student Aid Data Systems to Support Policy Analysis

Using – and Improving – Federal Student Aid Data Systems to Support Policy Analysis

Matthew Soldner
American Institutes for Research

Colleen Campbell
Association of Community College Trustees

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