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\nMarch 2026  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nINDEX OF FIGURES.................................................................................................................................. 3  \nINTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 4  \nDEFINING, COLLECTING, AND USING POSTSECONDARY RURAL DATA ......................................... 6  \nDEFINING “RURAL”............................................................................................................................................... 6  \nCOLLECTING RURAL DATA................................................................................................................................ 9  \nUSING RURAL DATA ............................................................................................................................................ 11  \nRECOMMENDATIONS FOR STATE AGENCIES .................................................................................... 14  \nSEEK CROSS-AGENCY ALIGNMENT AND LEVERAGE FEDERAL RESOURCES ....................................14  \nNAVIGATE THE COMPLEXITIES OF RURAL CLASSIFICATIONS...............................................................14  \nCAPITALIZE ON POLITICAL SALIENCE TO ADVANCE RURAL DATA WORK.........................................15  \nMOVING FORWARD............................................................................................................................................16  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................................ 17  \nSuggested Citation: SHEEO. (2026) . Strong Foundations 2025: Insights into state postsecondary rural data. State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.  \nThe State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) serves the executives of statewide governing, policy, and coordinating boards of postsecondary education and their staffs. Founded in 1954, SHEEO promotes an environment that values higher education and its role in ensuring the equitable education of all Americans, regardless of race/ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic factors. Together with its members, SHEEO aims to achieve this vision by equipping state higher education executive officers and their staffs with the tools to effectively advance the value of higher education, promoting public policies and academic practices that enable all Americans to achieve success in the 21st century, and serving as an advocate for state higher education leadership.  \n© 2026 State Higher Education Executive Officers Association  \nINDEX OF FIGURES  \n1. DOES YOUR AGENCY HAVE A UNIFORM OR STANDARD DEFINITION FOR RURAL LEARNERS, RURAL INSTITUTIONS, OR RURAL-SERVING INSTITUTIONS? .......................................................................... 6  \n2. GEOGRAPHIC UNITS CITED IN DEFINING RURALITY ..........................................................................................7  \n3. DOES YOUR AGENCY COLLECT OR USE DATA RELATED TO RURAL LEARNERS, RURAL INSTITUTIONS, OR RURAL-SERVING INSTITUTIONS? .......................................................................... 9  \n4. WHAT DATA SOURCES DOES YOUR AGENCY DRAW UPON TO ANALYZE RURAL LEARNERS? ............ 10  \n5. HOW STATE AGENCIES USE OR PLAN TO USE DATA RELATED TO RURAL LEARNERS, RURAL INSTITUTIONS, OR RURAL-SERVING INSTITUTIONS ...........................................................................11  \n6. HOW HAS YOUR AGENCY DISAGGREGATED DATA ON RURAL LEARNERS? .............................................. 12  \nSHEEO  \nSTRONG FOUNDATIONS 2025: INSIGHTS INTO STATE POSTSECONDARY RURAL DATA  \n© 2026 by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO)  \n3  \nINTRODUCTION  \nFor more than a decade, the State Higher Educa","cbCaiowrJL3X3Dno","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiowrJL3X3Dno","pdf",701025,17,"English","# Introduction\n## Defining, Collecting, and Using Postsecondary Rural Data\n## Recommendations for State Agencies\n## Moving Forward\n## Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"What does Strong Foundations 2025 focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on state agency data related to rural learners, rural institutions, and rural-serving institutions in postsecondary education.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the report frame the meaning of rural learners and rurality?\",\"answer\":\"It links rurality to how postsecondary opportunity is shaped by where students live and where they enroll, using an urban-rural classification context.\"},{\"question\":\"What recommendations does the report provide to state agencies?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends seeking cross-agency alignment and leveraging federal resources, navigating classification complexities, and capitalizing on political salience to advance rural data work.\"}]","Strong Foundations 2025: Insights into State Postsecondary Rural Data | PDF",1792061705,43]