At CoPilot, our mission is to empower student success teams with meaningful data and streamlined workflows. Our integration with the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), the trusted national nonprofit that powers education data exchange, verification, and reporting with nearly universal institutional participation in the U.S., has already delivered big wins for our partners. It saves hours of manual data entry, minimizing errors, and accelerating verification.
But we believe we can go further — and that’s why we’re launching a dedicated NSC Dashboard Task Force to transform how our partners interact with enrollment and degree data.
Why a Task Force?
Though CoPilot + NSC integration already reduces friction, we regularly hear from our partners about ways to make the experience more intuitive, insightful, and actionable. The task force gives us structured focus to:
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Design an interactive dashboard to visualize NSC enrollment and degree data
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Deepen understanding of student college enrollment pathways
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Enable rapid detection of trends in enrollment and degree outcomes
With these enhancements, we aim to move beyond “import and view data” to empowering users to analyze, decide, and act, all within CoPilot.
What the Task Force Will Do
Over the fall quarter, the task force will hold four extensive meetings. In those sessions, we’ll:
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Review existing NSC / enrollment data fields currently viewable in CoPilot
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Identify additional data points and visualizations that could enhance insights
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Prioritize features, dashboards, and metrics for development
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Begin prototyping a user interface for dynamic exploration
Because of its broad institutional coverage (often more than 90% of U.S. postsecondary enrollment) and trusted status, Clearinghouse data provides a powerful backbone for comparative insights and benchmarking. Our task force will aim to leverage these strengths while bridging the usability and visualization gaps that many practitioners face today.
What Users Can Expect
As we move forward, here’s what users and partners can look forward to:
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A preview of conceptual dashboard mockups in late fall
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Opportunities for user feedback and testing early in the next year
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Incremental rollout of new dashboards and metrics in future CoPilot system updates
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Training, documentation, and community sharing so partners can get the most out of the enhancements
Why It Matters
Better, more intuitive access to enrollment and degree trend data means you can:
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Spot challenges earlier — e.g., declining retention or degree gaps
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Benchmark against national trends and peer institutions
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Make strategic, data-driven decisions on interventions and resource allocation
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Free up time from manual data manipulation so you can focus on action
By deliberately investing in this task force, we aim to raise the bar for how student success teams use data —not just to report, but to drive insight.
Task Force Members
The NSC Dashboard Task Force is comprised of College Possible staff and CoPilot partners, including:
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Katie Cunningham – senior director of national program operations at College Possible
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Lauren Matthews – director of research at College Possible
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Tracy Brower – senior director of programs at Partnership for the Future
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Kristen Walker – director of college success at Partnership for the Future
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Jillian Marecki – Next Level Scholars program director at Detroit Regional Dollars for Scholars
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Madison Coan – associate director of college success at the CollegeBound Foundation
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Jennifer Uranga – director of college persistence at IDEA Public Schools
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Lucy Scholz – manager of data & analytics at Collegiate Academies
