Watch the Recording: How Institutions and States Are Using Data to Drive Student Value Webinar
In an era of declining enrollment and rising skepticism about college ROI, institutions must ground the value they provide in evidence. Careful and intentional data analysis can help colleges understand the value they deliver to students. Institutional data, combined with state and federal data sources, can also help leaders make more informed decisions about program design and resource allocation, to best support strong student outcomes.
The Institute for Higher Education Policy hosted a webinar, “How Institutions and States Are Driving Student Value,” on October 6, 2026 at 1:00 pm ET. This virtual discussion brought together practitioners and policy experts to explore how institutions are using data to improve student value. Panelists dug into IHEP’s analysis evaluating how programs perform under the Postsecondary Value Commission’s minimum economic return threshold and the federal “Do No Harm” accountability framework. The conversation also explored analytical tools and policy recommendations that states and institutions can implement to increase the economic value of higher education.
Couldn’t make it? Watch the recording and explore our postsecondary value resources below.
- Want to measure value? How to Measure What Matters: A Practical Guide to Assessing Postsecondary Value is a practical step-by-step guide to assessing the economic value of postsecondary education in a state, institution, or community.
- Want to learn more about program outcomes? When Purpose Meets Payoff: How Program, Institution, and Field Shape Postsecondary Value evaluates undergraduate programs’ earnings outcomes against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s earnings premium threshold and the Postsecondary Value Commission’s minimum economic return threshold.
- Making the value case to policymakers? Our Economic Value Simulator quantifies the returns graduates of public four-year colleges generate for the nation and every state.
