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Benchmarks: WICHE Region
Charting the West’s progress on key higher education indicators
Benchmarks: WICHE Region presents information on the West’s progress in improving access to, success in, and financing of higher education. The information is updated annually with the most recent data available, to monitor change over time, and encourage its use as a tool for informed discussion in policy and education communities. This data is displayed using interactive visualizations, which allow users to explore by state or territory and just the time series viewed. The visualizations can be view using the left sidebar navigation.
Select the download button on the bottom right of each dashboard to download either the complete dashboard or specific chart as a Power Point, PNG Image, or PDF.
Please use the following citation if you are reproducing these charts: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Benchmarks: WICHE Region 2024.
For more information, please contact:
Colleen Falkenstern
Director of Evidence and Strategic Initiatives, Policy Analysis and Research
303.541.0313cfalkenstern@wiche.edu
Colleen Falkenstern serves as the Director of Evidence and Strategic Initiatives in WICHE’s Policy Analysis and Research unit. In her role, she leads the unit’s work on a range of postsecondary education data and research initiatives and the development of data resources to support better informed decision-making in the West. These resources include WICHE’s annual collection of tuition and fees data and WICHE’s quadrennial projections of high school graduates, Knocking at the College Door. In her time at WICHE, she has worked on projects supporting Native American Serving Nontribal Institutions, addressing healthcare workforce issues, better alignment between higher education and workforce, and postsecondary completion. She received a bachelor’s degree in marketing and management from the University of South Carolina—Columbia and a master’s degree in higher education from the University of Denver.
