NSC News

Clearinghouse Creates Sustainability Committee to Reduce Ecological Footprint

The National Student Clearinghouse is proud to announce the creation of the National Student Clearinghouse Sustainability Committee. The committee seeks to develop sustainability standards to reduce the Clearinghouse’s ecological footprint through reducing, reusing, repurposing, and challenging current norms. Committee members include employees from different departments in an effort to gain diverse input, an all-encompassing collaborative…

College Match: Helping Low-Income Students Achieve More Than They Might Imagine

McClatchy DC, June 24, 2014 In spite of being among the top students in his school, Joseph Nelzy was quick to give up on being admitted to one of the nation’s best colleges after he got a rejection letter from Brandeis University, near Boston. “I had no hope… Read More >…

The Big Data Initiative Shines in Surprising Places

Fedscoop, June 23, 2014 The Obama administration probably didn’t envision local hunting, fishing and boating commissions as examples of how the government can harness big data. Neither did Waldo Jaquith, director of the U.S. Open Data Institute… Read More >…

States Aim to Boost College Graduation Rates

USA Today, June 18, 2014 States with large rural populations are launching strategies to encourage more kids to go to college by making it easier to earn college credit while they’re still in high school. This spring, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert… Read More >…

Colleges Try to Speed up Pace at Which Students Earn Degrees

The Hechinger Report, June 18, 2014 In the year since they graduated together, Daranie Ounchaidee still runs into a lot of her friends from high school. After all, they ended up commuting to the same community college, where those classmates stopped… Read More >…

University of Maryland Participates in National Student Achievement Measure Project

Digital Journal, June 17, 2014 The University of Maryland recently signed up to participate in the Student Achievement Measure (SAM)—a web-based graduation rate tracking initiative that launched last year. In addition to tracking full-time… Read More >…

New Commercial Business Unit Director Named at the National Student Clearinghouse^®

HERNDON, VA, JUNE 13, 2014 – Jamie Osterhaus has been named the new Commercial Business Director at the National Student Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization located in Herndon, Va., provides educational reporting, verification and research services to more than 3,600 colleges and universities and more than 9,000 high schools. Jamie joins the Commercial Business…

This Program Improved College Graduation Rates. So Why Was It Abandoned?

Time, June 3, 2014 By the time Leah Stone got her bachelor’s degree this spring from New Jersey’s Montclair State University, her four-year higher education had stretched to six years. It would have taken even longer had she not been able to… Read More >…