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In This Issue
·Online in America
·Transfer issues for community college students
·New Lumina Foundation publication shows how
nontraditional students are becoming the norm |
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ACCESS: CURRICULUM DELIVERY
College without walls serves 23,000 students
Rio Salado College serves 42,000 students in Phoenix, but more than half take classes online through the college's distance learning program. Some students take one course; others can earn one of 12 associate's degrees or 26 certificate programs. More...
SUCCESS: INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
Making transfers smoother for community college students
Transfer between two-year and four-year colleges is an important pathway to a baccalaureate degree. A new report calls on states to consider ways to foster and encourage the transfer of community college students. Read State Financial Aid: Policies to Enhance Articulation and Transfer (PDF), a new report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
ACCESS: ENCOURAGEMENT, INFORMATION AND PREPARATION
Latino college access: Simple, doable things matter a lot
Latino students with a 3.2 high school GPA are 62 percent more likely than all others to earn a bachelor's degree within eight years of high school graduation, according to a new study from the Educational Policy Institute (EPI). "Throughout our analysis, we found that simple, doable things like planning for college on the part of the student and the
parents tend to matter a lot," said EPI President Dr. Watson Scott Swail. More... |
ACCESS: COLLEGE COSTS
Tuition and fee rate hikes differ at institutions
Public four-year colleges and for-profit two-year colleges increased their annual tuition and fees at higher rates than did other institutions between 1998-99 and 2003-04, according to a recent National Center for Education Statistics report, Postsecondary Institutions in the United States: Fall 2003 and Degrees and
Other Awards Conferred: 2002-03. See page 3 of this PDF for details.
ACCESS: INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
Building capacity, academic rigor, access for future students
Higher education experts, including Lumina Foundation Senior Vice President for Higher Education Policy, Robert C. Dickeson, peer into the future of higher education in the latest issue of The Navigator (PDF), published by the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis. ACCESS: ACADEMIC PREPARATION
Ten steps to high school reform
Promoting rigorous college-prep curricula and expanding college-level learning opportunities to underserved students are among 10 steps that governors can take to
promote high school reform. The list recommends support of College Goal Sunday, a precollege access program supported by Lumina Foundation. Read Ten Steps to a State Action Agenda from the National Governors Association.
ACCESS: ACADEMIC PREPARATION
New data on dual enrollment
Dual enrollment is a gateway to college for many high school students. A recent National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey of these high school programs found that 57 percent of colleges enroll high school students in courses for credit. More on page 4 of this PDF. Schools located in cities are less likely than
schools in towns or the suburbs to report offering dual credit courses, according to another new NCES report. More on page 4 of this PDF. Read a policy primer (PDF) on dual enrollment from Jobs for the Future. |
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Grant aims to provide more higher ed opportunities
to community college students
A $516,000 grant will help determine how many low-income community college students are admitted to selective four-year colleges and universities. The grant is part of a project designed to increase the number of low-income community college students enrolled by top universities. Lumina Foundation is joining the project with the lead funder, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. More...
Policy resource center launches
Women in Government has launched a higher education policy research institute that will serve as a clearinghouse to help states provide all students - particularly minorities and women - with access to higher education. More...
Compare K-12 school performance
The Education Data Partnership has launched a free, national online resource - www.SchoolMatters.com - to provide an assessment tool for the relative performance of schools and school districts.
College cost initiative
Lumina Foundation has launched an initiative to create a national dialogue on the rising cost of college, an issue that threatens to close the doors of college opportunity to thousands of prospective students across America. More...
Grant guidelines
View Lumina Foundation for Education grant guidelines and visit our grant database.
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