In the 2020-21 academic year, the total number of undergraduate credential earners increased by 1.1 percent, or 39,000 students, to 3.7 million graduates. After a brief standstill in the previous year, graduate numbers began to rise again.
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The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports on the shifting transfer landscape during COVID-19 in a rapid response report series titled COVID-19 TRANSFER, MOBILITY, AND PROGRESS. On August 31, 2021, the Research Center issued a comprehensive annual report, revealing that American colleges lost nearly 200,000 transfer students in the first full year of the pandemic.
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The Some College, No Credential (SCNC) report series seeks to understand the educational trajectories of millions of U.S. adults who left postsecondary education without receiving a postsecondary credential and are no longer enrolled. As the third in the series, this report identifies the levels of opportunity within each state for reengaging SCNC students in the postsecondary attainment pipeline by tracking SCNC student outcomes annually: “Reenrollment” after stop out, completion of “First Credential,” and “Perseverance” as indicated by continuous enrollment beyond first reenrollment.
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This white paper unravels the insights and implications of the factors that influence the learner’s path to and through post-secondary education. Preliminary research illustrates the need to better understand the shifting age demographic of the post-secondary student population — the median age has risen to 25 — causing a rise in the “confidence gap.”
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This ninth annual report provides the most current data on high school graduates’ postsecondary enrollment, persistence, and completion outcomes. This data provides the most relevant benchmarks for monitoring and evaluating progress in assisting students to make the high school to college transition and earn a credential in a timely manner. The current report examines college enrollment for the high school graduating class of 2020, persistence for the class of 2018, and completion for the class of 2014. Large gaps persist between high-income and low-income high schools on all fronts.
In fall 2021, the second fall semester of the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges have fully resumed in-person classes amid the resurgence of the coronavirus. With continued challenges of responding quickly to evolving logistical concerns, institutional leaders and students alike are faced with difficult decisions that must be made with a lack of reliable, up-to-date information.
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As economic changes continue to require more postsecondary education for career success, colleges and universities stand to play a pivotal role in the future of work by connecting working adults with the skills required to succeed in the workplace. This study gathered both student and institutional perspectives on the biggest Covid-19 postsecondary pain points for these learners in order to determine which college policies worked, which didn’t, and what kind of educational and personal support was simply missing.
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This white paper centers around adults’ unique backgrounds such as motivations, prior schooling experiences, and linguistic and cultural resources, as the foundation of understanding how adult students learn best. The Adult Learner Model synthesizes this research by bringing together findings from cognitive psychology, sociology, basic and continuing education, higher education, adult literacy, workforce training, digital literacy, and English language acquisition.
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This supplement to our Signature Report 12 provides six-year completion rates disaggregated by race and ethnicity for students who began postsecondary education in fall 2010.
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This white paper shapes the powerful economic, demographic, and market trends within the higher education space, particularly for adults. Moreover, it asks how these trends might affect key constituencies. This paper looks at the obstacles that adult learners face in trying to earn credentials with labor market value, the promise of innovative practices that target adult learners, and changes in institutional and governmental policies that might help more adults earn higher education credentials.
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