Higher-Ed A/G Research Extension A public IPEDS study of institutional closure risk in a validated higher-ed subdomain.

Document index

This index lists the public, reader-facing summaries of the locked higher-ed evidence. Each summary is a short, plain-language version of the underlying internal document; no per-institution numbers and no raw data are linked from these summaries.

Lock and claim discipline

Final Lock Note

What the higher-ed extension is, what it is not, the validated lane, the headline result, and the Phase-19 hardening evidence. Single-page reference.

Read the Final Lock Note →

Claim Boundary Note

Allowed and forbidden claims. The 13-item boundary checklist that must accompany any external restatement of the result.

Read the Claim Boundary Note →

Phase 19 Hardening Decision

Integrated decision across the five Phase-19 hardening tracks; final classification and recommended next focus.

Read the Phase 19 Decision →

Validation tracks

Cluster Bootstrap

Institution-level (UNITID) bootstrap of the closure AUROC; cluster CI vs analytic CI; paired-difference distribution.

Read the Cluster Bootstrap Note →

Temporal Folds

Four sliding train/test time-block folds; joint-weak AUROC across folds; honest record of the Fold-1 baseline tie.

Read the Temporal Folds Note →

Closure Lead-Time

Score distributions and top-decile capture rates across T-1 through T-5 in the validated lane.

Read the Lead-Time Analysis →

ED Financial Responsibility Baseline

Federal composite score as a comparator on the descriptive train cohort; the head-to-head test on the locked cohort is not runnable due to a data-coverage gap.

Read the ED FR Baseline Note →

Heightened Cash Monitoring Anchor

Source-blocked in this run; documented as a candidate for future work.

Read the HCM Anchor Note →

Reproducibility

The locked higher-ed result is reproducible from documented Python scripts and public IPEDS data. The full reproducibility runbook, the artifact index marking files as CURRENT / HISTORICAL / SUPERSEDED, and the curated minimum-evidence packet are part of the project repository. They are not republished here as standalone files because they describe internal paths; the same information is summarised in the document pages above.

The project records SHA-256 fingerprints for every raw IPEDS zip (per the per-phase fetch logs) and an MD5 lock baseline for the locked-evidence documents and CSV outputs. A reviewer who needs to verify the lock can compute the same fingerprints from the public IPEDS sources.