This week the Washington Office of Financial Management (OFM) released a dashboard for Washington’s public baccalaureate institutions.

The dashboard is the result of passage of legislation (HB 1795)  in the 2011 regular session to provide the opportunity for Washingtonians to see outcome data for the public four-year institutions.

The dashboard shows aggregated data for the four-year sector and provides several metrics that focus on enrollment, retention, graduation, and degrees. Ultimately the dashboard will include data for each of the public baccalaureates in the new Complete to Compete accountability framework championed by Governor Gregoire.

The dashboard was developed by the OFM Forecasting and Research Division in conjunction with the six public baccalureate institutions, Council of Presidents, Higher Education Coordinating Board, and the Department of Enterprise Services.

The next version of the dashboard will be available Spring 2012.