While most calendar watchers have appropriately had their eyes focused on celebrations of the United States’ 250th anniversary, those within higher education circles might have viewed July 1, 2026 as the day when widespread changes to the federal student loan borrowing system became active. A year after the US Congress passed the One Big Beautiful…
The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) by the US Congress in July 2025 introduced a number of sweeping changes affecting colleges and universities in the United States. One of the primary components of the OBBBA was an overhaul of federal student loan borrowing limits for graduate students. Codified as the Reimagining…
We are continuing our blog series where we explore data from an updated report by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center related to the “Some College, No Credential” adult population in America. Previous posts in our series have shown there were 2.6 million “Some College, No Credential” (SCNC) “working age” adults (18-64 years old)…
With this blog post, we return to our blog series where we explore data from an updated report by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center related to the “Some College, No Credential” adult population in America. As we have seen in previous blog posts, the NSC data showed there were approximately 43.1-million “Some College, No…
With the recent release of the fall 2025 enrollment data by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), we wanted to take a look at statewide and institution-level trends across Texas. This fall, public institutions of higher education in Texas, including all two-year colleges, universities, and health-related institutions (HRIs), experienced an overall 4.5% increase in…
In the first post of our fall blog series, we explored data from a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center related to the “Some College, No Credential” adult population in America. According to the NSC, there were approximately 43.1-million “Some College, No Credential” (SCNC) adults across the United States in 2023. Out of…
With colleges and universities a month into the new academic year, much of the talk around higher education this time of year centers on enrollment, and rightfully so, given the historical nature of formula funding by state governments. We covered a number of challenges facing higher education in terms of enrollment in our blog post…
With the release of the 2025 Carnegie Classification system at the end of the spring semester, we have spent a great deal of time looking at the various aspects of data incorporated into the new three-pronged Carnegie approach that includes Institutional Classification, Student Access And Earnings Classification, and Research Activity Designations. Within these broader constructs,…
Throughout our past few blog posts, numerous data elements have supported the broad perspective that Regional Public Universities (RPUs) are distinctive entities when compared to Non-RPU institutions. In reviewing over 100 numerical variables published by the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC), meaningful differences existed across more than 8 out of every 10 variables…
