🎉Our 2026 Higher Education Policy Conference is next week! Don’t forget to download the conference app to get the full agenda and build out your schedule. Let us know in the comments if you’ll be there! See you soon, Chicago! https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026

RELEASE: SHEEO recently welcomed two new staff members to support state policy initiatives to help advance student success and strengthen postsecondary systems. Lily Cuellarsola joined SHEEO as a Senior Policy Analyst, while Joshua Walker joined as a Policy Analyst. Learn more: lnkd.in/e633NbJN

We’re just one week away from our 2026 Higher Education Policy Conference in Chicago! Check out the 60+ sessions, download our conference app to customize your schedule, and get ready for a great week! Sign up today to secure your spot. bit.ly/sheeopc2026

🚨🚨🚨Registration for our upcoming SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference is filling up! Secure your spot to join us in Chicago, Aug. 3-6. Find the full conference schedule, including keynote speakers and breakout sessions, at https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026.

RELEASE: SHEEO recognizes an individual SHEEO, a SHEEO agency, and a SHEEO staff member with our 2026 excellence awards. Congratulations to our winners – Clay Christian, the Utah System of Higher Education, and Andrea Spargo. Learn more: bit.ly/sheeo-awards26

🔎 Three new Fiscal Year 2025 State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) Data Insights reports are now available online at https://shef.sheeo.org/insights-and-briefs/#data-insights.

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸 We’re off celebrating America’s big birthday – catch us back online Monday, July 6.

🚨🚨🚨Today (July 1) is the last day to register with early-bird pricing! Join us in Chicago for the 2026 SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference. Find the full conference schedule, including keynote speakers and breakout sessions, at https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026.

NEW REPORT: Effective Leadership in State Higher Education: Advice from the Field highlights advice and stories from nearly 40 current and former state higher education executives from across the country. Read the full report: https://ow.ly/QJlw50Zh1f7

📣 NEW REPORT: Using findings from the Strong Foundations 2025 survey, our newest brief examines how state postsecondary agencies manage their PSURs, the governance and privacy structures that support them, and the investments that will shape these systems in the future. https://ow.ly/g5ok50ZfSfS

📣 Don’t miss the action this August! Join us in Chicago for the 2026 SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference. Find the full conference schedule, including keynote speakers and breakout sessions, at https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026.

SHEEO offices are closed in observance of Juneteenth. We’ll be back online Monday, June 22.

📣 NEW REPORT: Check out our latest brief on data linkages and access using findings from our 2025 Strong Foundations Survey. https://ow.ly/PwEe50ZcNFw

⏰ Have you registered yet? Seats are filling up fast! Join us in Chicago this August for the 2026 SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference. Find the full conference schedule, including keynote speakers and breakout sessions, at https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026.

💻 ICYMI: Check out our latest blog posts – read about navigating Workforce Pell in the first two of our series of blogs, and a recent post about the path to need-based aid in Georgia. https://sheeoed.medium.com

Universities foster brilliant minds that help fuel the economic engine, creating prosperity for all. 💸💸 #InvestInEducation #WhyCollegeMatters

🔎 From artificial intelligence and workforce development, to strategic planning, basic needs, and adult learner strategies – find these and other topics covered in our latest Quarterly Policy Review. https://ow.ly/oKbU50Za9o6

Have you registered yet? Don’t miss our early bird pricing now through July 1. Save your spot for the 2026 SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference, featuring over 60 sessions and time to network with colleagues from across the country. Join us in Chicago: https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026

Between 2010 and 2020, the proportion of US adults who hold college degrees increased by 6.7 percentage points. As a result, US workers can expect to earn an additional $14.2T net of costs over their lifetimes—money that will bolster the US economy. bit.ly/4aOgi7F #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Learning and Earning by Degrees: Gains in College Degree Attainment Have Enriched the Nation and Every State, but Racial and Gender Inequality Persists - CEW Georgetown

The US economy misses out on $11.3 trillion in net lifetime earnings gains due to educational attainment gaps.

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Happy National Higher Education Day! College is the catapult to building the future you’ve always dreamed of. We’re thankful for our members and partners for your continued commitment to helping students reach their goals. #NationalHigherEdDay

Thank you to Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Learning for your hospitality and welcoming SHEEO Vice Presidents Tom Harnisch and John Lane for a site visit. It was good to hear more about the advancement of higher education across the Magnolia State.

💻 NEW BLOG: The path to need-based aid in Georgia was built brick by brick. Read how state aid advocates moved the needle in our latest blog, written by guest writer Korynn Schooley from Achieve Atlanta. https://sheeoed.medium.com/the-path-to-need-based-aid-in-georgia-c01796ec11a3

💻 NEW BLOG: Check out our second in a series of blogs focusing on the opportunities and challenges facing state higher education leaders during the Workforce Pell implementation process. https://ow.ly/aOLC50Z6cO0

Big news! Our full conference schedule is now available! Check out the 60+ sessions being offered Aug. 3-6, at our 2026 Higher Education Policy Conference in Chicago. Register now to take advantage of our early-bird pricing. https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026

RELEASE: SHEEO is pleased to welcome Sachith Patabendi to the team. Sachith joined the SHEEO staff as Executive Assistant and Operations Manager earlier this week. 🎉https://ow.ly/7vHx50Z5CCR

SHEEO offices are closed today, Monday, May 25, as we remember the cost of freedom. We’ll be back online and available tomorrow.

📣 Great news! We're hiring for a Policy Analyst to work out of either of our offices (DC or Boulder, CO) or fully remote. Contribute to state higher education policy with this great opportunity! Learn more - https://ow.ly/GwZ950Z3k1T

Join us in welcoming our State Policy Interns! 🎉 This summer, Mya will support our Holistic Advising for Student Success project, while Jaden will contribute to the development of a state #highered governance database and peer identification tool. More: https://ow.ly/XS4v50Z1PX9

SHEEO President Rob Anderson and Associate Vice President Dustin Weeden were in Kansas yesterday for a site visit with the Kansas Board of Regents. Thanks to Blake Flanders and the whole Kansas team for hosting us and sharing all the great things happening across the sunflower state!

🚨Did you hear?! Registration for our 2026 Higher Education Policy Conference is now open! The full conference schedule is forthcoming, but don’t miss the early-bird pricing now through July 1. We hope you’ll join us in Chicago this August. https://bit.ly/sheeopc2026