We continue with our fall blog series where we are exploring the future of jobs in Texas. Previous blog posts showed that Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America, and that the “Management” occupation group is set to have the highest…
This blog entry serves as the final in our summer series presenting data and insights from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. Our previous blog posts have explored data on educational outcomes for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on success measures at three different timepoints: high school graduation,…
We continue our summer blog series reviewing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. In our previous blog post, we presented data on educational outcomes for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on students’ economic status, finding that just over 9 percent of economically disadvantaged students completed a…
We continue our summer blog series reviewing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) 8th grade cohort study, now known as the “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. This blog post builds on previous entries (here and here) by exploring educational outcome data for members of the three-year 8th-grade cohort (FY2011-FY2013) based on students’ economically disadvantaged…
This blog post serves as the second in our summer series where we are looking at the the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) 8th grade cohort study, now known as the “Texas Talent Trajectory (T3)” project. In our previous blog post, we noted that 76% (823,083) of the 1.08 million students in the combined three-year 8th-grade cohort…
Within higher education circles, most discussions about student success center on 6-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who enroll right after high school graduation. More recent efforts, such as the IPEDS Outcome Measures that comprised our spring data blog series, have started tracking the success of transfer students in earning higher education credentials. While…
This blog post will serve as the conclusion of our series on student success using the IPEDS Outcome Measures (OM) data. This post is a follow-up to our previous post that showed an interesting case for transfer students who were Pell recipients when reviewing completion data at public 4-year institutions across America. Those data showed that Pell recipients outperformed…
We continue our blog series on student success using the IPEDS Outcome Measures (OM) data with a look at outcomes for Pell versus non-Pell grant recipients. The Pell Grant program “provides grant assistance to eligible undergraduate postsecondary students with demonstrated financial need to help meet education expenses” (NCES). As previously discussed, the OM data includes categories for all combinations of…
Our previous posts in this blog series on graduation rates using the IPEDS Outcome Measures (OM) data have concentrated on students who initially enrolled as full-time students. Across public universities in Texas in the 2014 cohort, 59% of first-time-in-college (FTIC), full-time students and 68% of full-time transfer students graduated with a bachelor’s degree within 8 years of starting at the…