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Analyzing the Data Reporting Tools Used to Create Texas 2036

January 19, 2021 Wally Boston

Finding a website rich in data is a dream for a quantitative-oriented person. In my recent article about Texas 2036, I wrote that the organization’s mission is “to enable Texans to make policy decisions through accessible data, long-term planning and state-wide engagement.” I reviewed the Texas 2036 site further and found a number of interesting data reports.

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Texas 2036 and the Ambitious Plans for the Future of Texas

January 18, 2021 Wally Boston

In 2036, Texas will celebrate its bicentennial. It’s estimated that Texas will add 10 million people to its current population of 29 million by then. Depending on whether or not California’s population continues to hold firm at 39.6 million or stagnates due to people leaving the state, Texas could be the most populous state in the U.S. in the future.

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Calculating the ROI of College: Whose Approach Is Better?

January 14, 2021 Wally Boston

In Monday’s Inside Higher Ed, Nic Ducoff (co-founder of Edmit) penned an opinion piece questioning the approach of some organizations that have attempted to calculate the ROI of college. Mr. Ducoff writes that most approaches include cost and earnings, but how those variables are determined impacts the result and how the result is presented to prospective students impacts the influence it will have on their decision making. I could not agree more.

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2020: The Year in Review (Part 3)

January 4, 2021 Wally Boston

This article is a summary of all of the blog articles that appeared on the Wally Boston blog from October through December of 2020. It is part 3 of a three-part series.

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What’s the Best Way to Create Innovation in Higher Education?

December 15, 2020 Wally Boston

A few years ago, I was asked to develop and teach a course on Educational Entrepreneurship to a cohort of doctoral students enrolled in the Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. As I constructed the syllabus for the one-semester course, I realized that I needed to find instructional content/materials to provide the students with some knowledge about business models in order to adequately complete the final assignment. That final project was an 8- to 10-page paper outlining in some detail a unique idea to generate revenues or reduce expenses for their institution.

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Department of Education Announces Latest Additions to College Scorecard Data

December 7, 2020 Wally Boston

Yesterday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced additions to the data available to consumers and researchers using the College Scorecard. Some of the changes announced include the average earnings two years after graduation based on field of study, the amount of Parent PLUS loans borrowed by parents of students to pay for their child to attend an institution, and the amount of loans borrowed at previous institutions attended for students who transfer.

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Fall 2020 Higher Ed Enrollment Updated

November 13, 2020 Wally Boston

The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) has provided monthly updates of Fall 2020 college enrollments. The most recent update reports enrollment as of October 22 and the percentage of institutions reporting enrollment data has increased from 54 percent to 76 percent.

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Gainful Employment Regulations Are Good, if Applied to All Institutions

November 10, 2020 Wally Boston

When the Gainful Employment regulations were first proposed by the Obama administration in 2010, I stated that they might be reasonable if they applied to all institutions of higher education.

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Online Learning: Higher Education’s Electrical Vehicle

October 22, 2020 Wally Boston

In this week’s Inside Higher Education learning innovation blog, Josh Kim writes about how the future of the automobile industry is electric vehicles. Gasoline-powered pickup trucks, specifically the Ford F-150, are among the largest sellers and most profitable automobiles. As a result, the entry of electric pickups into the market has started to pick up.

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Meeting the Grand Challenges to Higher Ed: Reputation

August 25, 2020 Wally Boston

This article is Part 2 of a two-part series on the digital transformation of educational institutions and solving two of the Grand Challenges in higher education: reputation and relevance. This article discusses reputation and how American Public University System (APUS) has met that challenge.

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