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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 all of SHEEO's most recent publications, including reports and briefs, organized by year published.

FAFSA Simplification

SHEEO is working alongside its members to determine how FAFSA Simplification could impact student pell eligibility and state financial aid eligibility.

Pell Grants for Prison Education

Starting on July 1, 2023, any person who is incarcerated, regardless of sentence length or conviction history, will be eligible to draw on their Pell Grant allotment to pursue postsecondary education with an approved prison education program (PEP). Reinstatement of Pell eligibility calls for departments of corrections, state higher education agencies, and accreditors, among others, to collaborate on the approval and operation of prison education programs to enhance students’ access…

SHEEO Membership Report

The Membership Report provides the SHEEO membership and the higher education policy community with a view of various member characteristics, including agency-level data, agency senior leadership demographics, and SHEEO-specific data.

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, effective use, and evolution of state postsecondary data systems.

SHEEO Government Relations

A compilation of SHEEO federal advocacy activities, including sign-on letters, op-eds, and other key documents.

A Dream Derailed? College Closures Research and Policy Implications

SHEEO recently undertook a multiyear research endeavor to quantify the impacts of college closure on student persistence and completion. View the research and three corresponding reports.

Noncredit Mobility Academy

The noncredit mobility academy will support states as they build capacity to better realize the potential of noncredit education and increase economic mobility for learners who begin their postsecondary journey through noncredit programming.

SHEEO|ASAP College Completion Coalition Learning Community

SHEEO is partnering with the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE) National Replication Collaborative to establish and launch a new learning community among state higher education leaders to replicate the CUNY ASAP|ACE model at scale to increase college completion rates within their community college sectors. Five states have been selected for $50,000 planning grants to facilitate their participation in…

SHEEO Equity Work and Resources

SHEEO’s various equity projects and resources, including white papers, webinars, state resources, and various other items.

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.

Tuition and Fee Survey

SHEEO has produced the Tuition and Fee Survey report periodically since 1979 to gather data on tuition and fee-related topics and issues in higher education. Each survey reflects the social context it was created in as survey questions were revised based on decisions to collect information relevant for members of that period. Given the ongoing interest in the cost and affordability of postsecondary education, it is crucial to understand how…

Advancing Whole Student Support Through Improved Mental Health and Wellness

Inadequate campus support for student mental health, such as student isolation and difficulty accessing care, extreme wait times, understaffing, and underfunding, predates 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, exacerbated preexisting conditions that failed to adequately support students. The impacts have been particularly pronounced for students of color and students from low-income circumstances. Systemic inequities, mental health disparities (related to both additive stressors and lower access to care), and higher levels of…

Direct Admissions

The college application and admissions process continues to serve as a barrier to equitable college access. College applicants face a gauntlet of unclear and uneven information points, multiple steps toward preparation, varying application and admission requirements, and administrative hurdles—all of which rely heavily upon social and cultural capital. Previous interventions that simplified or removed barriers to college search and choice reduced these frictions and increased the likelihood of college application…

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.

State Authorization

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

State Higher Education Equity Funding Research

The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association’s (SHEEO) primary mission is to promote an environment that values higher education and its role in ensuring the equitable education of all Americans, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic factors. Central to that mission is equipping states with the skills and information to act when and where necessary. One area that presently requires attention and action is the analysis of equitable funding…