HEat Index, Issue 82 – Reverse Transfer, Majors Matter, and AI Data Foundations
“Credits, credits, every where and no degrees are seen.” My apologies to Coleridge for reworking one of his most famous lines, but with the Some College, No Credential population now at 43 million and counting, it feels appropriate. In this week’s issue, we look at...
HEat Index, Issue 81 – New Admissions Data, Declining Confidence, and Shaping Students
The purpose of postsecondary education and who gets in to where has been a hotly debated topic for almost 50 years. It’s tangled up in American ideas about meritocracy and the ethos (mythos?) that one can simply “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” In that...
HEat Index, Issue 80 – EDUCAUSE Horizon Report and Cost of Attendance
As an educational software company focused on higher ed data tools, you can probably imagine our excitement about the release of the latest EDUCAUSE Horizon Report as it focuses on data and analytics. For those of us who have followed Horizon from its earliest days,...
HEat Index, Issue 79 – AI Action Plans, Proposed Changes to IES, and the First-Generation Completion Gaps
Since the emergence of generative AI a couple years ago, higher education has been forced through a period of rapid change as each institution attempts to adapt to this new reality. With the release of their new action plan, EDUCAUSE encourages institutions to go on...