“In 2016 and 2017, we were really hitting our stride with information (in the reports),” Dies said. “It wasn’t just helpful to prospective students, so they can make an informed decision on which institution they may be interested in attending, but also looked at what their chance of success may be. And institutions themselves found the information useful to measure themselves against.”

No report has been produced since the board dissolved, DSPS deputy secretary Dan Hereth said. One of the program positions left vacant for more than a year was the analyst who produced the reports.

And it’s unclear where previous reports are housed. They appear to have been lost in the transition, so future analysis comparing to previous years will be more difficult.

Hereth was able to track down from another agency the most recent report completed in June 2017, just months before the transition. It found an average dropout rate of 42% and an average completion rate of 37% among four cohorts of students over a four-year period.

The program received spending authority in the 2019-21 budget passed earlier this month to fill the two positions that had been vacant since the transition, Crim said. Searches to fill those positions will start soon.