Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE)

The Association for Continuing Higher Education is dedicated to promoting lifelong learning and excellence in continuing higher education. As an organization of colleges, universities, and individuals, we encourage professional development, research and exchange of information for its members and continuing higher education as a means of enhancing and improving society.

Conferences/Events: http://www.acheinc.org/annmtg.html

Eduventures

Eduventures, the leading information services company for the education market, provides research and analysis that enables organizations to develop strategy, increase sales, and improve operational performance. Its offerings include targeted research programs, advisory services, and conferences. As a worldwide authority on the education market, it serves a blue-chip client base of executives and senior managers at hundreds of leading educational organizations and technology companies.

Conferences/Events: http://www.eduventures.com/conferences.cfm?pubnav=conferences

• Key Drivers of Educational Value
  

Executive Leadership Council (ELC)

The Executive Leadership Council is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(6) corporation, founded in 1986 by 19 African-American corporate executives dedicated to a bold mission - to provide African-American executives of Fortune 500 companies with a network and leadership forum that adds perspective and direction to the achievement of excellence in business, economic and public policies for the African-American community, their corporations and the community at large.

News Link: http://www.elcinfo.com/news_pr.htm
Conferences/Events: http://www.elcinfo.com/events.htm

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a national, nonprofit research and public policy institution. Founded in 1970 by black intellectuals and professionals to provide training and technical assistance to newly elected black officials, the Joint Center is recognized today as one of the nation’s premier think tanks on a broad range of public policy issues of concern to African Americans and other communities of color.

News Link: http://www.jointcenter.org/index.php/news_room

Lumina Foundation

Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based, private, independent foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school. Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that society can make in its people.

News Link: http://www.luminafoundation.org/newsroom/index.html

National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Education)

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education

• College Opportunities Online (COOL) -- IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line is your direct link to nearly 7,000 colleges and universities in the United States.
  
  
• Digest of Education Statistics -- The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school
  
  
• IPEDS Dataset Cutting Tool -- The Dataset Cutting Tool (DCT) allows users to download postsecondary data from the IPEDS database to use with software packages for analysis and comparisons. Use the DCT to obtain complete data files and codes or to create customized datasets according to your specifications.
  
  
• IPEDS Peer Analysis System -- The IPEDS Peer Analysis System is designed to enable a user to compare a postsecondary institution of the user’s choice to a group of peer institutions which are also selected by the user. It provides a variety of analytical features for peer analysis.
  
  
• Students Entering and Leaving Postsecondary Occupational Education: 1995–2001-- This report examines the issues of occupational student enrollment, persistence, attainment, and labor market outcomes for a cohort of first-time, credential-seeking postsecondary students.
  

National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education promotes public policies that enhance Americans' opportunities to pursue and achieve high-quality education and training beyond high school. As an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the National Center prepares action-oriented analyses of pressing policy issues facing the states and the nation regarding opportunity and achievement in higher education-including two- and four-year, public and private, for-profit and nonprofit institutions.

• Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education
  
  Measuring Up 2006 consists of the national report card for higher education and fifty state report cards. Its purpose is to provide the public and policymakers with information to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state. Measuring Up 2006 is the fourth in a series of biennial report cards
  
  
• Measuring Up Internationally: Developing Skills and Knowledge for the Global Knowledge Economy
  
  Higher education globalizes: its potential contributions are now seen as a crucial component of cross-border economic competitiveness. Accumulating evidence suggests that a highly qualified workforce contributes substantially to a nation's economic competitiveness, particularly when a large share of the workforce has acquired skills and knowledge through higher education
  

News Link: http://www.highereducation.org/news/news.shtml

National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE)

NCEE is committed not just to research, analysis and advocacy, but also to following through on its recommendations by creating the training, professional development, technical assistance and materials that professionals in the system need to implement the proposals we make. Our programs and affiliates are essential to our successful realization of these goals.

In 2005, NCEE recently established the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

News Link: http://www.ncee.org/ncee/news/index.jsp?setProtocol=true

• New Commission on the Skils of the American Workforce (... slow Website, but worth the wait)

On December 14,2006, the Commission unveiled recommendations calling for the biggest changes in the American education system in a century. Without these changes, the Commisison said, the American standard of living will be in serious jeopardy.

Tough Choices Or Tough Times: Executive Summary

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is designed to obtain, on an annual basis, information from scores of colleges and universities nationwide about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development. The results will provide an estimate of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college.

• NSSE 2006 Annual Report

News Link: http://nsse.iub.edu/e-news/index.cfm

The purpose of this Commission is to consider how best to improve our system of higher education, to ensure that our graduates are well prepared to meet our future workforce needs and are able to participate fully in the changing economy. To accomplish this purpose, the Commission shall consider Federal, State, local, and institutional roles in higher education and analyze whether the current goals of higher education are appropriate and achievable.