Noncredit Research Collaborative
With support from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics/ National Science Foundation, the Rutgers Education and Employment Research Center (EERC) and key partners at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of Michigan, and University of California, Irvine, are working with state leaders across the country to examine noncredit data. Our study is guided by four key goals: increase understanding of noncredit data infrastructure by developing an inventory of and consistent operational definitions for state-level noncredit data elements; collect and examine noncredit course/program-level data to explore noncredit offerings and their associations with enrollment rates, outcomes, instructional characteristics, and financial arrangements; Uncover the operational and policy drivers of noncredit offerings; Provide relevant policy implications.
In addition, the project is convening a learning community of states on data for noncredit education and nondegree credentials. This project lays the groundwork for developing a common definitional language for use
in future data collection and analysis efforts with the overarching