Plus, a blueprint for Social Security and the role of American civil society.
| Federal data vastly undercount Native American college students. New federal standards could change that. Since 2010, Native American students have seen college enrollment decline more than twice the national average, and the poor quality of higher education data has made measuring their educational access and success challenging. Fortunately in 2024, the federal government published revised standards for measuring race and ethnicity that would improve the inclusivity and accuracy of data on Native American students.
A new report by Bryan Cook, Kimberly Dancy, Robert Maxim, Nara Nayar, and Janiel Santos explains how the federal government’s proposed changes would support Native American students and offers concrete steps that the Department of Education can take to improve the quality and utility of student data so that policymakers, higher education institutions, and tribal nations have the accurate information they need to better support Native American students.
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| More research and commentary Fixing Social Security. Social Security is a crucial program in the U.S., but the main source of the program’s retirement benefits is forecast to exhaust its funds by 2033. Wendell Primus, Tara Watson, and Jack A. Smalligan propose a bipartisan blueprint to achieve solvency for the Social Security program without introducing new revenue sources. The role of civil society in a constitutional crisis. Historically, the United States has been fortunate to have a strong civil society, but many of these institutions have weakened. Vanessa Williamson highlights the critical role of key sectors, including media, academia, and business, in countering executive overreach. |
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