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Board of Regents unveils workforce‑alignment dashboard, says most majors break even quickly
Summary
The Iowa Board of Regents received a seven‑month workforce alignment review and interactive dashboard tying majors to occupations, showing that under conservative assumptions most majors reach a break‑even point within three years and recommending better data linkages and public dashboards.
Rachel Boone, board chief academic officer, and Jason Pontius, associate chief academic officer, presented the Board of Regents with a workforce alignment review and an interactive dashboard designed to connect degree programs to labor‑market outcomes.
"We wanted this to be the same data that anybody else can access," Pontius said, describing a methodology that uses a SIP→SOC crosswalk (standard program identifiers to Standard Occupational Classification) and public sources such as U.S. Census wage records, Bureau of Labor Statistics projections and Iowa Workforce Development statistics.
The presentation emphasized transparency and repeatability: the team used publicly available datasets and adopted established return‑on‑investment thresholds modeled on work from the…
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