The Educator Landscape in Texas EDITOR’S NOTE: We have paused the cost of attendance series that we introduced in the June 1 blog post. We will return to this series at a future date. The topic of public school teachers in America is prevalent across so many conversations. Be it K-12 administrators seeking to fill…
Costs of Attending Public Universities in America With May graduations completed and summer sessions in full swing, we begin looking toward the upcoming fall semester and the beginning of a new academic year. Eyes will also be focused on the legislative session set to begin in Texas on January 10, 2023. From policymakers to pundits…
Loan Repayment Status by Institutional Type This blog post represents the eighth and final contribution in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. The previous blog post explored the relationship between loan repayment rate and the percentage of students from underserved/underrepresented student populations. The data…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time This blog post represents the seventh in our series on student loan debt. All previous blog posts can be found on our primary website. In our previous blog post, we started looking at trends in student loan repayment of beginning balances. Using the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data, we…
Repayment of Federal Student Loans Over Time In our previous blog posts, we reviewed a number of trends in the federal student loan debt data that are included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. The College Scorecard student loan debt data are different from other sources, as the cohorts included in the data are comprised of…
Student Debt by Student Characteristics We continue our exploration into trends in the federal student loan debt included in the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard data. This blog post examines federal loan debt across various student characteristics, including gender, first-generation status, Pell status, and institutional specialty status. By way of review, the national average for four-year public…
Student Debt and Demographics: URM Status In this blog post, we continue exploring various aspects of student loan debt, as we seek to greater understanding of the challenges facing students, families, and society. In our previous blog post, Exploring Student Debt: The National Perspective, we presented data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s…
Exploring Student Debt: The National Perspective As we continue our look into the various aspects of student educational debt, we shift our focus from a Texas-only review in our previous blog posts (here and here) to review the national trends. Even though the Texas data as tracked in the 60x30TX Plan show that student loan debt indicators…
Student Debt to 1st-Year Earnings: THECB’s 60x30TX Goals This blog post is the second in our series exploring student loan debt. Our previous blog post showed promising trends in terms of the percentage of bachelor’s graduates at Texas public universities who graduate with student loan debt decreasing from 62.5% in 2014 to 56.4% in 2020, as…