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DXtera Awarded Grant to Support Automated PDP Data Submission

Grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop tools that support greater interoperability among higher education data systems.

BOSTON, MA. — DATE — DXtera today announced that it received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund additional efforts for automated and interoperable Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) data submission

The PDP is a nationwide collaborative data platform, hosted by the National Student Clearinghouse, that helps colleges and universities gain a fuller picture of student progress and outcomes, meet various reporting requirements, including to educational partners, and identify where to focus their resources.

This 1-year grant to DXtera will support the expansion of their efforts to develop and support the utilization of an automated approach to file assembly for PDP data submission for institutions across the country. This approach will significantly inform institutional efforts to increase student success by expanding the use of the PDP automation tool and related best practices guidance while substantially reducing the work required by institutions to prepare the requisite PDP files.   

“We are thrilled to be extending our collaboration with the Gates Foundation to collaboratively work with the experts at the institutions and the National Student Clearinghouse to create a more efficient PDP submission process. This effort will lead to an improved open source solution, processes, and deployment capabilities available to support all institutions engaged with the PDP.” says Dale Allen, PhD., co-founder and president of DXtera. 

The activities to be completed during this process will include deploying mechanisms to enhance communications and models, in concert with the National Student Clearinghouse, to avert delays and increase data governance and trust of the tools.  This will be enabled by implementing improved processes developed by decreasing the friction and time to adoption with an improved onboarding process supported by an administrative dashboard.  

To learn more about DXtera, please visit dxtera.org. 

 

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About DXtera Institute 

The DXtera Institute℠ is a nonprofit, member-based consortium of higher education professionals collaborating to remove technology barriers so that institution leaders, faculty, staff, and students have efficient access to information needed to transform student outcomes. With partners across the U.S. and Europe, the consortium includes some of the brightest minds in education and technology, all working together to solve critical higher education issues on a global scale. Visit dxtera.org for more information.

About National Student Clearinghouse

The National Student Clearinghouse, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed in 1993, is the trusted source for and the leading provider of higher education verifications and electronic education record exchanges. Besides working with nearly 3,600 postsecondary institutions in meeting their compliance needs, the Clearinghouse also provides thousands of high schools and districts with continuing collegiate enrollment, progression, and completion statistics on their alumni. For more details, visit studentclearinghouse.org



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