Press Releases

NEW YORK, NY (April 18, 2017) — CAPSEE’s final conference in Washington, DC on April 6–7 featured research on the relationship between education and the new economy and addressed major themes around individual and societal investments in college education and their implications.

NEW YORK, NY (March 28, 2017) — A new paper synthesizing research from eight states finds that associate degrees consistently and significantly increase the earning power of workers—even during major economic downturns such as the Great Recession—but certificates have a more mixed record at boosting earnings.

NEW YORK, NY (March 16, 2017) — Di Xu and Madeline Joy Trimble have won the 2017 AEFP–Kauffman Foundation Award for their recent CAPSEE paper, announced at the welcome reception at the AEFP Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

NEW YORK, NY (October 17, 2014) — Researchers, policymakers, and higher education leaders came together to discuss “the value of higher education—and how to further strengthen it” at CAPSEE’s September conference. Scholars from CAPSEE and elsewhere presented research on state-level labor market outcomes and federal financial aid programs; state agency representatives illuminated how they calculate and use labor market outcome data to inform higher education policy; and college leaders discussed how information on student employment outcomes helps them strengthen programs and pathways.

NEW YORK, NY (October 6, 2014) — Employers are less likely to call back job applicants with business degrees from online, for-profit colleges than those with degrees from nonselective public universities, a new experimental study from the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE) has found.

New York, NY (April 1, 2014) — A new CAPSEE study finds that despite the huge growth in unemployment during the years termed the “Great Recession,” students who enrolled in community colleges and completed an associate degree—or who went on to transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree—experienced consistently stronger economic returns and were less likely to be unemployed than community college students who accumulated some college credits but no degree.

NEW YORK, NY (January 27, 2014) — Using student progression and earnings data in two states, a new CAPSEE paper examines labor market outcomes for students who enrolled at for-profit colleges after beginning their postsecondary education in community college. The authors find significant penalties for transferring to a for-profit college instead of a public or private nonprofit college.

NEW YORK, NY (October 21, 2013) — In an October forum hosted by Brookings Institute’s Hamilton Project, two CAPSEE researchers presented proposals on changing financial aid and student lending policy to improve college outcomes. The proposals, described in detail in two papers released by Brookings Institute, address the issues of low completion rates for Pell Grant recipients and the rising “debt repayment crisis” facing American college students and families.

NEW YORK, NY (March 8, 2013) — In the second annual convening of the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE) held on March 8, 2013, at Teachers College, Columbia University, researchers, community college administrators, and state higher education officials from around the country gathered to discuss methodological issues and preliminary findings from the first year and a half of research on labor market outcomes for a wide variety of postsecondary pathways.

NEW YORK, NY (January 11, 2013) — CAPSEE Director Thomas Bailey and three other CAPSEE researchers—Susan M. Dynarski, Eric Bettinger, and Bridget Terry Long—were included in the 2013 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings of university-based education researchers.