Our Work

State Authorization

SHEEO has launched two projects meant to help states improve their authorization process.

SHEF: State Higher Education Finance

The SHEF report provides in-depth analysis of the trends in higher education finance on state and national levels.

SHEEO Publications

Access recent SHEEO publications.

Adult Promise

SHEEO is working with 15 states to design and implement promise-type financial aid programs geared toward adult learners over the age of 25.

State Postsecondary Attainment Academy

The Attainment Academy is a collaboration between SHEEO and Education Strategy Group (ESG) to support states’ efforts to achieve attainment goals.

Capacity Building Grant

Support for SHEEO to reevaluate its approach to fulfilling its mission within a changing national policy context.

Strong Foundations

The Strong Foundations project seeks to understand the state of postsecondary data systems. Multiple iterations of the Strong Foundations survey and associated reports document the content, capacity, and effective use of state postsecondary data systems.

Project Pipeline Repair: Restoring Minority Male Participation and Persistence in Educator Preparation Programs

Project Pipeline Repair is a collaboration among four state agencies and one selected historically black college and university (HBCU) in their respective states.  It seeks to address persistent shortages and lack of diversity in the education profession.

Communities of Practice

SHEEO’s Communities of Practice project is focused on increasing the capacity and utilization of state postsecondary data systems, and providing a forum for states to work on solutions to common issues with those systems.

State Postsecondary Data

SHEEO is the higher education community’s primary source of information regarding the capacity and effective use of state postsecondary data systems.

Postsecondary Data Partnership Assistance to Community Colleges

This project increases the capacity of Jobs for the Future Student Success Centers and their participating colleges to use data from the Postsecondary Data Partnership to improve student success.

Quality Assurance and Improvement

SHEEO, in collaboration with the National Association of System Heads (NASH), conducted an environmental scan of the existing landscape of approaches utilized to assess and assure the quality of higher education institutions and higher education credentials at the state level.