COLLEGE COST: AFFORDABILITY
Lumina Foundation Focus:
Dreams Detoured
The rising cost of college is a complex and critical problem, not just for students and families, but also for officials and policy-makers in nearly every state. The fall 2005 issue of Lumina Foundation Focus magazine examines the problem, exploring the interrelated causes and the sometimes heart-wrenching effects of the college-cost spiral. More...
COLLEGE COST: INFORMATION
Lumina unveils collegecosts.info
To emphasize the issue of rising college costs and to help begin a national dialogue, Lumina Foundation has launched www.collegecosts.info. The site is part of the College Costs: Making Opportunity Affordable initiative, and includes a list of partners who will participate in a national summit in early November.
COLLEGE COST: AFFORDABILITY
Rising college costs threaten degree attainment
If college costs continue to rise, by 2010, 4.4 million low-income students who are qualified to go college will be unable to enroll in a four-year institution because they can't afford it. Nearly half of those will be unable to pay for an education at a two-year institution. Lumina Foundation has undertaken an initiative to help identify, test and implement solutions, particularly for low-income, minority and first-generation students. More...
COLLEGE COST: TIME TO DEGREE
Research shows public frustration over college costs
Recent focus group research shows public frustration over the rising cost of college and consensus on one area that could ease costs: reducing the time it takes for students to earn a four-year degree. More...
COLLEGE COST: DEBT
U.S. graduates devote more of their earnings to repaying education loans than graduates abroad
A new report focuses on debt burden facing students and examines student-loans burdens in eight countries, including the United States. The Education Policy Institute study finds that graduates in the United States with low incomes and high debt devote a far greater portion of their earnings toward repaying their loans than do graduates in other countries. Read Global Debt Patterns: An International Comparison of Student Loan Burdens and Repayment Conditions. | 
