Aug 14, 2026AwardHERA receives $4.2M to extend the Completion Gap Atlas through 2031A five-year renewal will add state-level wage linkage to the panel.The renewal funds a wage-linkage component covering eleven states, allowing completion outcomes to be followed into the labour market for the first time within the Atlas panel. Work begins in January.The Completion Gap Atlas →Read more +
Jul 30, 2026PublicationAdvising at Scale trial results published in AERA OpenContact among previously non-contacting students rose 34%.The full pre-registered analysis, audit protocol, and refusal cases are published alongside the paper.Advising at Scale →Read more +
Jul 2, 2026TalkOkonkwo testifies before the state senate committee on higher education financeTwenty minutes on comparison groups, and why the current formula picks the wrong ones.Written testimony and the accompanying data appendix are available in full.Read more +
Jun 18, 2026ReleaseFaculty Pipeline Monitor 2026 edition is out1,100 institutions, 2.4 million appointment-years.This year's edition adds appointment-length data and reverses one of last year's headline findings for well-endowed private institutions.Faculty Pipeline Monitor →Read more +
May 22, 2026TeamTobi Adeyemi joins as a postdoctoral fellowHe brings the three-state transfer work with him.Tobi will extend The Transfer Maze into an interactive credit-loss tool for advisors, in collaboration with the Atlas team.The Transfer Maze →Read more +
Apr 29, 2026PublicationCredit loss at transfer accepted at EEPAA median of 21% of earned credits do not survive a cross-sector move.The paper is the first three-state accounting of credit loss using linked administrative records.The Transfer Maze →Read more +
Mar 11, 2026ReleaseThe Completion Gap Atlas is now publicTwo decades, 1,800 institutions, one queryable panel.The tool is free, requires no account, and the underlying panel is downloadable in full. Documentation covers every harmonisation decision.The Completion Gap Atlas →Read more +
Feb 20, 2026PartnershipFour community colleges join the Advising at Scale trialBringing the trial to twelve campuses and 84,000 students.The expansion was designed to test whether triage effects hold in settings with the highest advising caseloads.Advising at Scale →Read more +
Jan 15, 2026TalkHara presents the model audit protocol at a national conveningIncluding the cases where the system should decline to answer.Advising at Scale →
Dec 4, 2025PublicationAid simplification paper published in AEJ: Economic PolicyEvidence from four state reforms.Simplification raised enrolment among eligible students by 2.8 percentage points, concentrated entirely among first-time applicants.Read more +
Nov 8, 2025TeamIrina Petrova joins as the lab's first data engineerThe warehouse now has a proper owner.
Oct 17, 2025AwardFirst Generation Longitudinal receives a wave-six extensionFieldwork opens autumn 2026.Wave six will follow the original cohort into their sixth year post-entry, with an expanded labour-market module.First Generation Longitudinal →Read more +
Sep 25, 2025ReleaseWave five results from the First Generation study6,200 respondents, 81% five-year retention.First Generation Longitudinal →
Aug 12, 2025TalkVásquez on tuition resets at the system finance officers' meetingApplications go up. Revenue mostly does not.Tuition Reset →
Jun 30, 2025PublicationProbabilistic linkage methods paper publishedHow the lab links records across states without sharing identifiers.The Completion Gap Atlas →
May 14, 2025PartnershipHERA and a six-state consortium sign a three-year data agreementAdding 320 institutions to the panel.The Completion Gap Atlas →
Jan 28, 2025ReleaseWhat Students Actually Ask taxonomy releasedA category system built from 2.1 million real requests.Four Advising at Scale campuses have already adopted it.What Students Actually Ask →Read more +
Nov 6, 2024PublicationForty years of grades published in JEMMean GPA rose 0.62 points since 1984.Grade Inflation, Measured →
Sep 10, 2024ReleaseFaculty Pipeline Monitor launchesThe first annual edition covers 900 institutions.Faculty Pipeline Monitor →Read more +
Jun 21, 2024AwardFoundation grant funds the Advising at Scale trialThree years, twelve campuses.Advising at Scale →
Feb 13, 2024TeamCamille Moreau joins as a postdoctoral fellowBringing four decades of transcript data with her.Grade Inflation, Measured →