Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI)

Pnpi hosted two in-person seminars, an in-person boot camp, and one virtual learning day. The seminars focused on student loan debt and repayment and title iv program integrity issues. The boot camp focused on the federal budget and appropriations process. The virtual learning day also focused on program integrity.

Smaller meetings were held with higher education stakeholders as a means to extend our reach and expertise. Pnpi also creates and publishes primers, memos, and factsheets on Postsecondary topics and hosts the Pnpi explorer, a higher education data tool.

Pnpi hosted three researcher spotlights, three iterations of a virtual course, one virtual boot camp, and one in-person boot camp for prospective policymakers and the larger federal higher education community.researcher spotlights introduced participants to up-and-coming Postsecondary researchers. The virtual course focused on federal student aid and included both synchronous and asynchronous components. One virtual boot camp focused on college cost, one virtual boot camp focused on federal student aid, and one in-person boot camp focused on federal student aid. Boot camps provided participants with an opportunity to expand their content knowledge while networking with others.