Airlines have taken it on the chin in recent months for bad customer service. This despite the fact that overall customer service rankings of the airline industry are up. Flight attendants received nearly a 14% bump in pay based on a comparison of mean wage data from the 2016 Occupational…
Public Insight, an analytics platform that syndicates public and licensed private data and transforms it into actionable insights, announces the launch of the first self-service data analysis offering, called Interactives, for the Higher Education market. Interactives include blended, disparate data from leading education and economic data sources, such as: IPEDS,…
Johnny Nash wrote an award winning song in 1972 called “I Can See Clearly Now”. It was one of those one-hit wonders that still is around today. Johnny would be proud to learn that the field of Vision Science and Physiological Optics topped our findings for emerging program growth with…
Nursing programs at a bachelor and master’s level continue to grow at a fast pace according to the most recent awards data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Bachelor’s and Master’s level (see tree map left side blue growth area below) degrees for Registered Nurses (and related fields)…
Last week, the Government Accountability Offices announced that the federal government will forgive a whopping $108 billion in student loans in the coming years. Prognosticators project a coming economic doom as the student debt crisis approaches mortgage meltdown proportions. Last week we focused on the earnings of students six…
College students are earning 8% less in 2013 than in 2008 per the most recent data published by the US Department of Education College Scorecard database. Students earned $31,382 in 2013 compared to $34,119 in 2008. The earnings were ostensibly flat from 2012 earnings of $31,528. The College Scorecard…
The August 2016 Public Insight release provides extensive improvements in search capabilities, data source audit trails, and multi-level database extracts. The text searching capability allows you to type any search term and Public Insight will return a list of data sources and path to the metrics containing the search term….
CLEVELAND: At a time when many American families are struggling with the cost of higher education—and questioning its value—a new report provides valuable insight into the Northeast Ohio higher education scene. The first-ever study of the region’s higher education institutions (IHE’s) measures the collective impact of the 62 public and…
Public Insight, whose software optimizes the utility of public data sets for decision support and analysis, announced the release of its May 2016 update. Highlighting this update are enhancements to OmniView, a premium subscriber analytical tool built from the ground-up for broad, comprehensive analysis across data sources, metrics, and time.
The incidence of sexual assaults on college campuses continues to be a hot topic in light of the Stanford student sentencing. This has again raised the issue of how effective campuses are at handling sexual assaults. As I have blogged previously, institutions receiving Title IV dollars must report specific acts…
My daughter has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in Cartooning and Illustration. Today, she is a quality assurance manager for a software company. I am very glad that her career has morphed into a burgeoning field because it was very clear to me that it would…
I love looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics data. This data produces employment and wage estimates annually for over 800 occupations and estimates for states and metropolitan areas. I especially enjoy looking at this data from both a job growth and a wage growth perspective. That…