There are a wide variety of college access and success programs, but the professionals working at them often wonder how th...

By Janai Raphael, Graduate Assistant for Research & Data Analysis The Center American Progress (CAP), a progressiv...

NCAN members are well aware that staying up-to-date on all of the latest reports, briefs, white papers, and more can be a...

By Janai Raphael, Graduate Assistant for Research and Data Analysis As college costs (and, coincidentally, student loa...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced that it would expand and enhance its College Scoreca...

In August and September, more than 40 NCAN members participated in the Impact Survey Project, a collaboration between NCAN...

There are a handful of eagerly-awaited annual publications in the college access field that merit members’ attention. The...

By Zenia Henderson, Director of Member & Partner Engagement In a recent data analysis from the Georgetown University C...

By guest blogger Dr. Jeremy Raff, Coordinator of College and Career Services at School District of Lancaster, an NCAN memb...

By Janai Raphael, Graduate Assistance for Research and Data Analysis Within recent years, text message interventions...

Brace yourself for a big number: At least 36 million Americans have some postsecondary education but no degree or certific...

“You probably had more transparency about your breakfast cereal than your students had with their award letter,” NCAN Exec...

By Janai Raphael, Graduate Assistance for Research and Data Analysis It can be hard to keep up with all of the latest...

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s reports are invaluable for the college access and success field, and...

"Our commitment to equity is our insistence on excellence," Steve Colón, CEO of NCAN member Bottom Line and vice president...

By Janai Raphael, Graduate Assistant for Research and Data Analysis NCAN members know that most of our students face a...

Earlier this summer, the National Student Clearinghouse announced a new slate of K-12 services coming in fall 2019 and e...

A blockbuster recent study considered the question of whether “nudging” interventions scale to the state and national leve...

NCAN members and other regular readers of this blog are routinely inundated with new research, white papers, policy briefs...

Which data are NCAN member programs collecting? How do programs use those data? With whom do programs share the data t...

It can be hard to keep up with all of the latest reports. Acknowledging that, here are summaries of three recent interesti...

Later this month, more than 50 NCAN members will participate in an important project to help them (and the field) better u...

You’d be hard pressed to find bigger supporters of the Pell Grant than NCAN. The program helps to make college possible fo...

NCAN member-served students were more likely than a national sample to enroll in a four-year public institution and less l...

Earlier this year, DC Public Schools announced the release of a new  “Guide to Graduation, College, and Career.” &nbs...

GreatSchools  is a national nonprofit perhaps best known for school ratings and summaries but which also engages in e...

  By Mariah Brown, Spencer Dixon, McCall Hopkin, Shelbe Klebs, and Emily Labandera The National College Acc...

Last week the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education and the University of Pennsylvania Alliance...

There is, and has been, a tension in higher education between the public’s understanding of the benefits (financial and ot...

Anyone with a passing familiarity of NCAN’s work knows that FAFSA is a major focus. From the #FormYourFuture  campaign to...

“Tax audit.” The phrase strikes fear into many Americans, but most of them will never experience this process. In fact, th...

Students who receive services from NCAN member organizations enroll in and complete postsecondary education at rates far e...

The College Board released its annual student aid and college pricing trends reports this week, and while some of the...

The National Student Clearinghouse, fondly known in the college access and success field as NSC, is celebrating its 25th a...

The 2019-20 FAFSA cycle begins today, and NCAN is releasing a new report on the relationship between school district pov...