Toolkits

Strong Foundations 2025: Survey Toolkit

This toolkit facilitates users’ interactions with the 2025 Strong Foundations survey administration, providing insights on how to interpret and use the survey data, exploring state contexts and common challenges, sharing…

Briefs

Strong Foundations 2025: Data Systems, Management, and Evolution in State Postsecondary Agencies

Using findings from the Strong Foundations 2025 survey, this brief examines how 68 state postsecondary agencies overseeing PSURs manage those systems, the governance and privacy structures that support them, and…

Briefs

Strong Foundations: State Postsecondary Data Linkages and Access Across State Agencies

Using findings from the Strong Foundations 2025 survey, this brief examines the current landscape of cross-agency data infrastructure, including governance models, data exchange practices, data linkage and access patterns, and…

Blog Posts

Locally Unique, System Strong: Supporting Rural Institutions in North Carolina

Across North Carolina, community colleges play a critical role in connecting learners to opportunity, strengthening local economies, and responding to regional workforce needs. The North Carolina Community College System Office…

Blog Posts

Data, Policy, and Peer Exchange: Insights from SHEEO’s Chief Research and Data Officers Convening

In February 2026, as a part of its Strong Foundations project, SHEEO brought together members of its Chief Research and Data Officers (CRDOs) constituency group for a two-day convening in…

Reports

Strong Foundations 2025: Insights into State Postsecondary Rural Data

In Strong Foundations 2025, SHEEO examines the extent to which state agencies collect and use rural data, the catalysts for their work, and the challenges and opportunities they encounter in using…