This PowerPoint presentation, prepared for a policymaker and funder briefing hosted by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, provides an overview of the Central Texas Student Futures Project, its recent results, and plans for the future.

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Recent Results and a Model for Replication
U.S. Capitol Briefing October 15, 2009

2008 Student Futures Project Outcomes Briefing (October 15, 2009)

The Texas Business Review, a publication of the Bureau of Business Research at The University of Texas at Austin, featured a report from the Texas Student Futures Project in its August 2009 issue. The article, written by Deanna Schexnayder, Greg Cumpton, Christopher King and Chandler Stolp, summarizes the project and presents its findings as of that date to an audience of Texas businesspeople and policy makers. Click here to view article.

Texas Business Review Article (August 2009)

The Central Texas Student Futures Project (Student Futures Project) is a research partnership of the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas at Austin and eight Central Texas independent school districts (ISDs). One of the purposes of this project is to provide Central Texas school districts, postsecondary education institutions and employers with comprehensive, longitudinal research on what local high school students do after high school and how a variety of educational, personal and financial factors relate to their success in higher education and the workforce. National research datasets are frequently unable to provide region-specific information on high school graduate transitions. The combination of survey data (described further below) and administrative records in the regression analyses is particularly powerful and fairly unique in studies of postsecondary transitions, especially regionally-focused studies. This unique data set is also of a sufficient size to support new insights into the way various factors influence college enrollment and retention differently for key population subgroups (e.g., Hispanic, low-income, and first-generation college students) that are less likely to attend postsecondary education.

Education and Work After High School: Findings from Multi-Methods Research in Central Texas (April 16, 2009)

Education and Work After High School: Findings from Multi-Methods Research in Central Texas (Powerpoint Presentation, April 16, 2009)

Community Briefings on Recent Results (February 24-25, 2009)

Education and Work After High School: Using Research to Improve Practice in a FERPA World (November 6, 2008)

Skillpoint Alliance Educator Conference (PowerPoint Presentation September 2008)

Central Texas Student Futures Project (PowerPoint Presentation November 2007)

Central Texas High School Graduate Data Center: Year One Report Brief (April 2006)

Preliminary Year One Findings: January 2006 (January 2006)