Revised NSC Model Still Shows Greater Enrollment Declines Than Does IPEDS

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…

Data Security: It Pays to Ignore

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,…

Research-Based Interventions vs. Product Management

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…

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

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

Gates Foundation Response to Posts on Courseware Evidence

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…

Clarifications But No Answers on Growing Discrepancy in Enrollment Reporting

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…

Fall 2021 Largest Institutions by Total Enrollment and DE Type

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…

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

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…

Discrepancy in Reported US Higher Ed Fall Enrollment Declines

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…

Fall 2021 IPEDS Data: Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education

New IPEDS data showing pandemic-driven acceleration of online education