"I worked my way through college. You should too." [Spread]
This Excel workbook illustrates the data calculations used to show the number of hours a student would have to work to finance his or her college education through earnings from employment.
The time period shown is 1964-65 through 2007-08. The institutional types for which these calculations are made are public universities, public 4-year colleges, community colleges, private universities, private 4-year colleges and private 2-year colleges. 7/28/2009

ACT National Graduation Rates, 1983 to 2009 [Spread]
This Excel spreadsheet compiles all of ACT's published annual reports on institutional graduation rates.
ACT collects these data on its annual Institutional Data Questionnaire and publishes them in a variety of publications including its annual ACT National Dropout and Graduation Rate Report. Rates are reported as means with standard deviations by institutional control, highest degree offered and admissions selectivity. With ACT's permission, we have compiled these annual reports into this spreadsheet for 5-year and 3-year graduation rates. 10/14/2009

ACT National Persistence Rates, 1983 to 2009 [Spread]
This Excel spreadsheet complies all of ACT's published annual reports on institutional freshman-to-sophomore persistence rates.
ACT collects these data on its annual Institutional Data Questionnaire and publishes them in a variety of publications including its annual ACT National Dropout and Graduation Rate Report. Rates are reported as means with standard deviations by institutional control, highest degree offered and admissions selectivity. With ACT's permission, we have compiled these annual reports into this spreadsheet for freshman-to-sophomore persistence rates. 10/14/2009

Agricultural Employment, 1990-2009 [Spread] 5/11/2010

Bachelor's Degree Attainment by Age 24 by Family Income Quartiles, 1970 to 2008 [Spread]
This Excel workbook summarizes data on high school graduation rates, college continuation rates, college participation rates, estimated bachelor's degree completion rates and estimated bachelor's degree attainment by age 24 by family income quartiles for each year from 1970 through 2008.
Original data were collected by Census Bureau and National Center for Education Statistics. 12/17/2009

By the Numbers: Snapshot of Arizona's Postsecondary Education System [Presentation]
Arizona Postsecondary Commission
November 8, 2007 - Phoenix, AZ 11/8/2007

California at the Edge of a Cliff: [Other]
The Failure to Invest in Public Higher Education is Crushing the Economy and Crippling Our Kids' Future
Prepared for the: California Faculty Association
Tom Mortenson - January 7, 2009 1/8/2009

Challenges for Educational Opportunity In Indiana [Presentation]
Indiana Pathways to College Network
October, 18, 2007 - Greenwood, Indiana 10/18/2007

Chance for College by Age 19 by State, 1986 to 2008 [Spread]
This Excel workbook contains the data used to calculate the proportion of each state's 19 years olds who will be enrolled in college somewhere in the United States in the fall following high school graduation.
Data are available for the years 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. The public high school graduation rate, the college continuation rate, and their combination - chance for college by age 19 - are shown for each state and year. 9/2/2010

College Affordability for Hispanics [Presentation]
California Chicano-Latino Intersegmental Convocation
November 9, 2007 - San Francisco, CA 11/12/2007

College Affordability: Thinking (Way) Outside the Box [Presentation]
Council for Opportunity in Education
September 11, 2009
San Antonio, TX 9/11/2009

College Entrance & Participation Rates by Race/Ethnicity & Gender for Recent High School Graduates & Leavers, 1959 to 2009 [Spread]
This Excel workbook summarizes data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the Current Population Survey 
on the transition from high school directly into college the following fall for men, women, whites, blacks, hispanics and other race population categories.These data are the first published each year on numbers of high school graduates and college freshmen. 5/11/2010

College Participation Rates for Students from Low Income Families by State FY1993 to FY2008 [Spread]
This Excel workbook contains state and national data used to calculate college participation rates for students from low income families for the years FY1993 to FY2008. This rate is the ratio of dependent Pell Grant Recipients divided by 4th to 9th graders nine years earlier, approved for free or reduced-price school lunches.
The data for each state includes: dependent Pell Grant recipients by state of residence, 4th to 9th grade enrollments in public schools, the percent of children approved for subsidized school lunches, the number of 4th to 9th graders in these low income families, and their rate of enrollment in college nine years later. These data show the number of children in these low income families in the K-12 pipeline headed toward higher education in each state. 6/30/2009

Degrees Conferred by Level of Degree, Gender and State 1970 to 2008 [Spread] 5/13/2010

Demographics, Labor Markets and Globalization: Trends Affecting College Opportunity [Presentation]
Council for Opportunity in Education - 2010 Annual Conference
September 3, 2010
San Diego, California 9/3/2010