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Revised NSC Model Still Shows Greater Enrollment Declines Than Does IPEDS

Author Phil Hill February 8, 2023/by Phil Hill

In early January I noted a growing discrepancy between the US higher education enrollment reporting between National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) and the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The issue is not that there is a discrepancy – different data methods after all – but that there is a growing discrepancy. I […]

Data Security: It Pays to Ignore

Author Phil Hill February 7, 2023/4 Comments/by Phil Hill

With last week’s FTC order and yesterday’s earnings call, it is time to put the four and half year description of Chegg’s data breaches to bed. When it comes to data security, it appears that it pays to ignore – from a financial perspective, it was the right decision to deny, delay, and (mostly) ignore […]

Research-Based Interventions vs. Product Management

Author Phil Hill February 2, 2023/2 Comments/by Phil Hill

I wrote a series of posts in the fall about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in postsecondary education centered on digital courseware, challenging their claims of following the data. You can read the first post about the messaging machine, the second on the push for CourseGateway, the third laying out our history 2013 – 2018 […]

State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Year-End 2022 Edition

Author Phil Hill January 31, 2023/5 Comments/by Phil Hill

State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Year-End 2022 Edition #MindWiresLMS

Gates Foundation Response to Posts on Courseware Evidence

Blog January 24, 2023/1 Comment/by Phil Hill

I wrote a series of posts in the fall about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in postsecondary education centered on digital courseware, challenging their claims of following the data. You can read the first post about the messaging machine, the second on the push for CourseGateway, and the third on a research background […]

Clarifications But No Answers on Growing Discrepancy in Enrollment Reporting

Author Phil Hill January 11, 2023/by Phil Hill

Last week I noted a growing discrepancy between the US higher education enrollment reporting between National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) and the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The issue is not that there is a discrepancy – different data methods after all – but that is a growing discrepancy. I had the […]

Fall 2021 Largest Institutions by Total Enrollment and DE Type

Author Phil Hill January 5, 2023/1 Comment/by Phil Hill

Based on reader request after yesterday’s post, I’d like to share another view of largest US higher education institutions, this one ranked by total enrollment with color coding of distance education (DE) type. This chart combines undergrad and grad student enrollments. [full-page audio link] To get a sense of how much higher education has changed […]

IPEDS Fall 2021: Largest Institutions by Online Enrollments In US With Trends Since 2012

Author Phil Hill January 4, 2023/1 Comment/by Phil Hill

After the IPEDS Fall 2021 data came out in late December, I noticed a large and growing discrepancy between the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) and IPEDS about the size of the enrollment declines. I have been in contact with NSC, and the deeper I look into that situation, the more that I think we have […]

Discrepancy in Reported US Higher Ed Fall Enrollment Declines

Author Phil Hill January 2, 2023/7 Comments/by Phil Hill

With the release of the Fall 2021 enrollment data from the US Department of Education’s IPEDS system, I had planned a post showing a comparison of three commonly-used data sources to help provide context, but as I looked further there seems to be a significant discrepancy between the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) enrollment reports and […]