Data Collection and Reports

In order to meet Nebraska's higher education goals stated in the Comprehensive Statewide Plan for Postsecondary Education, the Coordinating Commission maintains extensive databases and produces regular, comprehensive reports to provide a wide array of objective, factual information about higher education in Nebraska. No other entity maintains all of these kinds of data.

We are proud to serve as an information resource for legislators, reporters, the public, higher education institutions, and other government agencies.

Data Collection

For Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education's contributing institutions to submit data regarding their respective institutions. Institutions may also review comparative data prior to publication.

Data Collection and Online Database

 

Reports and Publications

Reports have been categorized below based on their subject matters and are provided in Acrobat PDF format. To view a report, click on one of the links below. The most recently approved copy of each report is listed in parentheses.

 

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Postsecondary Institutional and Student Data:           

Graduate Outcomes in Nebraska (November 12, 2008)

Produced by the Nebraska Workforce Development, this report provides information on recent graduates' earnings, industry employment and work location. This publication also includes information about which majors produce graduates most likely to be employed in Nebraska, which majors produce the highest wages, which Nebraska counties graduates are employed and demographic characteristics of graduates.

 

A Factual Look at Higher Education in Nebraska

A report that uses data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) surveys to provide comparative data for Nebraska's higher education institutions.

           

Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report

A report designed to provide the Nebraska Legislature with comparative statistics to monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving key priorities for Nebraska's postsecondary education system.

 

 

Residence and Migration of First-Time Freshmen, Fall 2006 (December 6, 2007).

This report provides detailed information about the first-time enrollments of Nebraska's postsecondary institutions and the enrollments of Nebraska-resident, first-time freshmen at out-of-state institutions.

Higher Education and the Future of Nebraska (Presented by Dennis Jones, President of the National Center Higher Education Management Systems, at the Postsecondary Education and Nebraska's Future forum held December 5, 2007); Click here for print version.

Estimated College Continuation Rates for Nebraska Counties for the High School Class of 2005-06. (November 27, 2007)

This report provides our estimate of college going rate by county for the high school graduating class of 2005-2006.

 

 

Financial Aid Reports:

2008 Tuition, Fees and Financial Aid Report (Approved by CCPE Commissioners August 7, 2008)

This biennial report provides an analyses of the public policy issues relating to tuition, fees and financial aid for students in Nebraska. 

 

 

Nebraska Student Loan Volume Report 1992-93 to 2002-03 (September 2005)
This report reviews student loan borrowing information and trends as they pertain to Nebraska student borrowers. All analyzed funding is from federal loan programs.  Click on a table of content item to go to that section of the report.

 

Graduating Into Debt: Results of the Nebraska Student Loan Survey (August 2000)
This report is a collaboration with the National Student Loan Program. It describe the demographics of the student borrower population, how the population was selected, the outcome of the survey, and recommendations and conclusions based on the survey results. The report will also present information that, while perhaps not bearing directly on the issues of over-reliance on student loans or deferment of life decisions, should be of interest to the reader, such as the percentage of respondents who worked while attending college.

 

Facilities and Budget Reports:

 

2009-2011 Institutional Operating Budget Recommendations (October 2008)
This is is a constitutionally required analyses of public institutional budget requests for the upcoming biennium. It includes information about higher education appropriations,   affordability, access and accountability; discussions of statewide funding issues and recommendations and rationales pertaining to institutional budget requests.

 

2009-2011 Capital Construction Budget Recommendations and Prioritization (October 2008)
This report contains the Coordinating Commission’s funding and priority recommendations on capital construction budget requests from the Nebraska State College System, the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis

 

Postsecondary Institutional Operating Budget Deficit Appropriation Requests: Fiscal Years 2008-09 (December 11, 2008)

The Commission reviews and makes recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature regarding any major operating budget deficit appropriation requests coming from Nebraska's postsecondary institutions.

 

Nebraska Public Postsecondary Education Facilities Information, including information from the 2001 State Land Inventory (April 2003)

 

 

Postsecondary Academic and Public Service Reports:

 

Survey of Programs and Courses Offered in Nebraska by Out-of-State Institutions (January 2009)
The Coordinating Commission keeps track of course and program activities by public postsecondary institutions that are located outside of Nebraska.

 

2008 Biennial Report (December 11, 2008)
A report that outlines the Commission's tasks and progress in fulfilling the goals of the Comprehensive Plan.

 

Delivering Courses Beyond Campus Walls

This report describes the types of distance education courses available to Nebraska residents, who is delivering distance education, how distance education is delivered and how many students are taking advantage of distance education.

 

Academic Program Review, December 2006 to December 2008

This document lists the programs the Coordinating Commission reviewed in the 2008 Biennium.  The list also describes the Coordinating Commission's action taken on each program based on the Commission's review. 

Public Service Inventory (ongoing)
The Coordinating Commission keeps an inventory of public services operated by public postsecondary institutions.

Presentations by CCPE Staff