In this Data Dan video, Dan uses data from the Equity in Athletics data set from Title 9 Participating schools to look at fringe sports at colleges across the country.
According to the Institute for College Access and Success, seven in 10 seniors (69%) who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2014 had student loan debt, with an average of $28,950 per borrower. Over the last decade—from 2004 to 2014—the share of graduates with debt rose modestly (from 65%…
The new CDC mortality data continues to paint a rather grim picture. Last week we focused on the external causes of the rise in death rates. This week we analyzed the mortality (death) rate among age groups using over 1.8 billion data points over 17 years from the CDC. You…
My Cleveland Indians have now won 13 games in a row. That along with their overall record and stellar play over the entire season tells me they are a good team. However, at any given point the Indians or any particular player could play really poorly. The similar challenge with…
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…
A slug of new data has recently been released covering campus statistics on violence against women. This data was mandated by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) and is added to numerous other statistics required under the Campus Crime Statistics Act, or Clery Act. College institutions must…
After a few weeks break, we are back with this week’s edition of the Insight for Education blog. In my previous blog on distance enrollment, we cited that distance enrollment exclusive growth was up nearly 15% and more and more schools were offering distance education. In this analysis we wanted…