In 2015, the State of New Jersey engaged the Heldrich Center to provide data consultation and project management assistance in managing the grant responsibilities and activities of New Jersey’s federally funded P-20W State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) project. Federal resources were used to establish an advisory council, expand the existing New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Workforce Longitudinal Data System (WLDS) into a P-20W State Longitudinal Data System (now known as the New Jersey Statewide Data System, or NJSDS) to house new workforce and post-secondary data administrative data as well as K-12 data, create policies to govern a shared data resource for the benefit of state government, link the various state administrative datasets using data from the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, conduct public events on the data system, develop a public-facing NJSDS website, and conduct research using the data in the new data system. In 2017, Rutgers University/Heldrich Center signed a five- to eight-year data sharing agreement with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education, New Jersey Department of Education, and New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
Research Products
- Monitoring New Jersey’s Postsecondary Attainment Goal Using the New Jersey Statewide Data System (March 2025)
- Educational and Employment Outcomes for the New Jersey High School Classes of 2014 and 2015 (March 2025)
- Examining the Benefits of Education in New Jersey (February 2025)
- Exploring Postsecondary Outcomes of Dual-Enrollment Participation in New Jersey (December 2024)
- Where Students Go: Examining Outmigration in New Jersey (November 2024)
- A Review of State Postsecondary Attainment Goals and Progress (September 2024)
- Using the New Jersey Statewide Data System to Explore Educational Pathways (July 2024)
- Review of Dual-Enrollment Participation and Outcomes in New Jersey (April 2024)
- New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Dashboard (Spring 2024)
- Descriptive Analysis of New Jersey’s Educational Opportunity Fund Program Using the New Jersey Statewide Data System (December 2023)
- Exploratory Review of Remedial Education Participation and Outcomes in New Jersey (November 2023)
- New Jersey Higher Education Graduates’ Employment and Earnings (Fall 2023)
- Characteristics of Students with a Stopout Experience in New Jersey (October 2023)
- Strategies to Reduce Error in Annualized Unemployment Insurance Wages (March 2022)
- Benefits of Education in New Jersey (January 2023)
- Early Signs of Pandemic Scarring Dashboard (2022)
- Where Students Go: Postsecondary Student Migration In and Out of New Jersey (2020)
- New Jersey Postsecondary Graduates’ Employment Outcomes (2020)