Earnings
Resources to help explain data and metrics about students' earnings after they leave college.
Next Level Disaggregation: Examining Program-Level Information, Additional Student Characteristics, and Labor Market Data
Equity, Local Planning, Program Review, Understanding Data
This 15-page guide introduces community college deans, directors, department chairs, and college researchers to a data dashboard that can help to deepen program review and program planning...
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Detailed Guide
Understanding Employment and Earnings Data
Understanding Data
Infographic explaining the sources of employment and earnings data for Chancellor's Office data tools such as the LaunchBoard, Student Success Scorecard, and Salary Surfer, including issues to...
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Infographic
Making Use of Labor Market Information: Where to Find Data for Common Community College Decisions
Local Planning, Program Development, Regional Planning, Understanding Data
This guide provides a brief overview of labor market information sources, structured around the types of questions that community colleges commonly ask related to developing new programs, designing...
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Detailed Guide
Need Program-Level Information on Equity Gaps?
Equity, Local Planning, Program Review
Find out how the LaunchBoard can help you get a better understanding of student characteristics and outcomes, and where programs have equity gaps related to completion and transfer.
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Short Video
Understanding Labor Market Information Resources: Descriptions, Benefits, and Limitations
Local Planning, Program Development, Regional Planning, Understanding Data
Provides detailed information on two dozen LMI sources, including strengths, limitations, screenshots, and web links.
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Detailed Guide
Understanding Skills-Builders
Understanding Data
This infographic explains who skills-builders are, how skills-builders are identified, what we know about them, and why it's important to examine skills-builder outcomes.
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Infographic
Improving Response Rates on the CTE Outcomes Survey
Program Review
Details strategies that can help ensure that more students respond to the CTE Outcomes Survey, which provides detailed information on students' employment status and satisfaction with their...
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Infographic
Case Study: Using Employment and Labor Market Information in the LaunchBoard to Make Data-backed Decisions
Local Planning, Program Development, Program Review, Regional Planning
Ideas for how to use the LaunchBoard to inform program planning, based on a case study from the field
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Brief
Looking for Data on Employment and Earnings?
Accreditation, Local Planning, Program Review, Regional Planning
Find out how the LaunchBoard can help you find information on employment rates and earnings for both skills-builders and completers.
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Short Video
Want More Information On Skills-Builder Students?
Communications, Student Advising
Two-minute video describing who skills-builder students are and where to find information on their outcomes and the programs they are most likely to enroll in.
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Short Video
Building More Comprehensive Measures of Workforce Training Success
Communications, Local Planning, Program Development, Understanding Data
This four-minute video explains why including factors such as wage gain, employment retention, and third-party certification would better capture the full range of career and technical education...
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Short Video
How Workforce Pathways Shape College Outcomes and Earnings Gains
Communications, Local Planning, Program Review, Student Advising, Understanding Data
This eight minute video examines the multiple types of workforce training offered by community colleges and their associated earnings gains, as a means of documenting the value of both short-term...
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Short Video
Want Additional Information to Support Academic and Career Advising?
Student Advising
Find out how the LaunchBoard can help students better understand career pathways and employment outcomes.
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Short Video