Following President Trump’s order for the Department of Education (ED) to
collect new admissions data from colleges and universities, ED has proposed a new IPEDS survey component. The Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement, with a target implementation date of the 2025–26 academic year, is open for public comment until Oct. 14.
To help inform the comments that ACE and other higher education associations will submit, ACE is working with the Association for Institutional Research and several other groups on a survey to gather feedback from the community. The goal of the survey is to ensure that the perspectives of the professionals most likely to report the data are represented in association comments and other advocacy efforts.
Click here to learn more and take the survey.
The associations’ formal comments will pay particular attention to the data and technical considerations of availability, accuracy, quality, and comparability. The mandate to provide this level of data, with the focus by the administration on race, from institutions is both concerning and problematic. It will be very difficult for institutions to accurately report the requested level of desegregated data. The fear is that this is a fishing expedition by the administration to unfairly penalize institutions.