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June 2009: TG 2010 Grant
TG, formerly the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, awarded the Central Texas Student Futures Project a $200,000 educational research grant for the 2009-2010 academic year to support a multivariate analysis of outcomes for 2008 graduates. The Ray Marshall Center will receive the grant via a partnership with the Quality of Life Foundation at the Austin Greater Chamber of Commerce. This marks the fourth consecutive year that TG has supported the Student Futures Project through its Public Benefit Grant Program.
June 2009: Briefing to the US Department of Education
Drew Scheberle of the Austin Chamber of Commerce and Deanna Schexnayder of the Ray Marshall Center briefed officials from the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C. about the Chamber’s current efforts to increase college enrollment among Central Texas high school graduates. The briefing highlighted the Student Futures Project’s ongoing role and collaboration in this initiative.
Aprl 2009: Findings Presented to the American Educational Research Association
Deanna Schexnayder presented a paper, Education and Work After High School: Findings from Multi-Methods Research in Central Texas, at the American Educational Research Association’s 2009 annual meeting in San Diego, California. The presentation consisted of an overview of the Central Texas Student Futures Project and its most recent findings.
February 2009: Center Publishes Three Student Futures Project Reports
Ray Marshall Center researchers issued three reports based on findings from the Student Futures Project: Outcomes One Year Later: An Update on the Class of 2006 ; Education and Work after High School: A First Look at the Class of 2007 ; and Findings from the 2008 Senior Surveys.
February 2009: Center Holds Briefings on Student Futures Project
The Central Texas Student Futures Project held community briefings on February 24 and 25, 2009. Led by Deanna Schexnayder and Christopher T. King, principal investigators, the briefings drew a wide-ranging audience of school district personnel, college preparatory program managers, higher education staff, business leaders and other community stakeholders. After a presentation of findings from two recent reports, Education and Work After High School: A First Look at the Class of 2007 and Outcomes One Year Later: An Update on the Class of 2006, the principal investigators answered questions from the audience. Each briefing also included a discussion by a panel of local business and education leaders, focusing on questions and applications for the Student Futures Project research.
January 2009: The Austin Chamber of Commerce Extends Funding
The Austin Chamber of Commerce agreed to extend funding for the Central Texas Student Futures Project for an additional five years. The Chamber has been a core supporter of the project since its inception in 2005, and with the recent agreement will continue to support the project thrugh 2013.
November 2008: Presentation at the Association for Public Policy and Management Conference
Deanna Schexnayder presented Education and Work After High School: Using Research to Improve Practice in a FERPA World, a report prepared by Christopher King, Greg Cumpton and Schexnayder, at the 30th annual research conference hosted by the Association for Public Policy and Management in Los Angeles, California.
July 2008: TG awards Ray Marshall Center a $200,000 grant for the ongoing Student Futures Project
TG, a public nonprofit corporation focusing on access to higher education, has awarded the Ray Marshall Center a $200,000 grant for the ongoing Central Texas Student Futures Project for fiscal year 2009. TG's support for the project is in its third year and so far has exceeded $625,000. The project tracks college and workforce participation for graduates of 10 Central Texas independent school districts and identifies factors associated with student success after high school. The overall project began in Fall 2004 and will continue at least through 2010. Other project funders include the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Texas Education Agency and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Christopher T. King and Deanna Schexnayder are joint principal investigators for the overall project.
March 2008: RMC Publishes a research brief summarizing 2007 senior survey findings
The Ray Marshall Center has published a research brief summarizing findings from the 2007 senior surveys undertaken as part of the Central Texas Student Futures Project. The brief, edited by Christopher T. King, Deanna Schexnayder and Nicole Beck, discusses highlights of the project, findings, conclusions, recommendations and future research/next steps.
November 26, 2007: RMC Staff presents ongoing research in the Student Futures Project
Christopher T. King, Deanna Schexnayder and Tara Carter Smith participated in a series of briefings and meetings concerning the Ray Marshall Center's ongoing research in the Student Futures Project. On November 26, Dr. King and Ms. Smith, joined by Jim McClure of Skillpoint Alliance, briefed Round Rock ISD Superintendent Jesus Chavez and his leadership team on the First Look report findings and implications. On November 27, the project and report were highlighted in front of 450 people at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce's "State of Education Summit," On November 28-29, at The University of Texas at Austin's Thompson Conference Center, Dr. King and Ms. Schexnayder, respectively, led two community briefings by the Center and Skillpoint on the report's findings and implications. On November 30, Dr. King presented those findings and implications at a Center for Health and Social Policy forum at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin.
September 2007: Central Texas Student Futures Project receives new name
Central Texas Student Futures Project is the new name of the research formerly known as Creating a Central Texas High School Graduate Data Center. The name was changed to reflect more accurately the nature and scope of the research being conducted.
September 2007: RMC publishes Education and Work After High School: A First Look at the Class of 2006
The Ray Marshall Center has published Education and Work After High School: A First Look at the Class of 2006, by Christopher T. King, Deanna Schexnayder, Greg Cumpton, Tara Carter Smith and Chandler Stolp, as part of its research in the Central Texas Student Futures Project. The report is the first in a series which will analyze administrative and survey data linked to their postsecondary outcomes for Central Texas seniors. The researchers concluded that models linking information from individual school and employment records with additional student background information collected through the senior survey perform better than models that rely solely on administrative records. From the statistical models, researchers determined that education and student background factors are significantly related to overall 2-year and 4-year postsecondary education enrollments in different ways, and these factors work differently for seniors from different socioeconomic, race/ethnic, and family backgrounds.