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Lumina Foundation Focus: Caring adults help students realize college dreams
KnowHow2Go: National college access campaign
Ed Trust report: College achievement gap widens for underserved |
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Caring adults help kids get to college
Students who want to go to college need more than good grades and big dreams. They need a caring adult who can help them understand the steps they need to take. The latest issue of Lumina Foundation Focus looks at the heroes of college access. You'll meet Ginny Donohue, founder of On Point for College, who gave up her executive career to advocate full-time for inner-city kids who want to go to college.
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Ad Council to launch national college access campaign
The Ad Council, in partnership with Lumina and the American Council on Education, will launch a national college access campaign in early 2007. The campaign, KnowHow2Go, will encourage students to take the necessary steps to go to college and connect them with helpful information and resources. Learn more and contact us
for information on how you can get involved.
Send us your comments
We encourage readers to share their views on this issue of Lumina Foundation Focus. Tell us what you think. |
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ACCESS & SUCCESS: INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE
College participation gap expands, report says
An Education Trust report finds gaps in college-going and college completion for low-income and minority students are wider than they were 30 years ago. Read
Promise Abandoned: How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict College Opportunities (PDF), funded by Lumina, and
learn more about this report.
ACCESS: ACADEMIC PREPARATION & FINANCIAL AID
Measuring Up gives international comparisons
For the first time, Measuring Up 2006 provides international comparisons for the nation as a whole and for all 50 states.
The report also gives states report cards to determine how they are preparing students for and enrolling them in college, ensuring graduation and keeping college affordable. More...
ACCESS: INFORMATION
Traditional college rankings challenged in new report
New data and technology can help measure how well colleges and universities are preparing their undergraduate students. In a new report funded by Lumina, Education Sector challenges current ranking systems and proposes a new one that would benefit both students and colleges. Read
College Rankings Reformed: The Case for a New Order in Higher Education (PDF).
ACCESS & SUCCESS
Commission on the Future of Higher Education concludes higher education must improve dramatically
Postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that society can make in its people. The United States, which once led the world in higher-education attainment, is now ranked eighth among major industrialized countries for attainment among young adults. The Commission on the Future of Higher Education, whose work
was fortified by the expertise of a number of Lumina Foundation grantees, concludes that U.S. higher education needs to improve in dramatic ways. Read the Commission's report (PDF).
SUCCESS: INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
Community college: Bridge to the Baccalaureate
Community colleges enroll almost half of all undergraduate students. An American Association of Community Colleges study examines how students incorporated community college attendance or courses into their undergraduate studies and how the outcomes of community college students differed from those who attended four-year institutions. Read En Route to the Baccalaureate: Community College Student Outcomes (PDF).
ACCESS: FINANCIAL AID
Financial barriers undercut attainment, U.S. economic future
Bachelor's degree attainment is essential to America's economic future. However, financial barriers prevent many low-income students from earning a degree. A study by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance reports that the United States has yet to fully invest in the student aid necessary to secure its economic future. Read
Mortgaging our Future: How Financial Barriers to College Undercut America's Global Competitiveness (PDF).
ACCESS: FINANCIAL AID
Study compares loan debts at different institutions
Rising college costs threaten to close the doors of college opportunity to students across the nation. A new study from the Project on Student Debt reveals that students who graduate from state schools often carry loan debt nearly as high as private institution graduates. Read
Student Debt and the Class of 2005: Average Debt by State, Sector, and School (PDF). Also, read a policy paper on student debt burden from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
ACCESS: FINANCIAL AID
Student debt load increasing, report says
Families and students are accepting more debt to pay for college. According to a Department of Education report, the average net price of attendance after subtracting all grants and tax credits for undergraduates in 2003-04 was $8,300 at public two-year, $11,900 at public four-year, $16,700 at private for-profit, and $20,000 at private not-for-profit four-year institutions. Read
Student Financing of Undergraduate Education: 2003-04 (PDF).
New report shows college enrollment increases
College enrollment rose by 25 percent between 1990 and 2004 and is projected to increase an additional 15 percent by 2015, according to Projections of Education Statistics to 2015, a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. |
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Illuminate us
Tell us what you really think. We want to hear from you -- about our mission, our initiatives and our communication. Robert Burke, director of research for the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio, wrote to us about an error we made in last month's newsletter. Here is Mr. Burke's e-mail:
The headline in this report is wrong.
ACCESS: COLLEGE COSTS
College tuition inflation: Highest rate in four years
The Commonfund Institute's Higher Education Price Index shows a 5 percent increase in inflation, the highest since 2002. For the past 10 years, annual HEPI inflation increases have averaged 3.6 percent, outpacing CPI annual average increases of 2.5 percent.
The HEPI actually measures the cost of things that colleges buy -- like energy, personnel, supplies -- rather than the tuition and fees charged.
You should correct this and re-send the notice.
Editor's note:
Mr. Burke is correct in pointing out that there is no link between the HEPI and college tuition inflation. The headline should have read: College operating costs: Highest rate in four years. Lumina regrets the error and appreciates the correction.
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Strengthening partnerships between Latinos and schools
A PALMS project toolkit assists middle-grades educators in building an outreach program focused on Latino families. See Tools for Latino Family Outreach.
Bilingual youth resource
A new bilingual Web site, www.elpuenteproject.com, helps Latino/a youth succeed in high school, prepare for and apply to colleges, develop leadership abilities, serve the community, and network with others.
Project GRAD to build parent engagement program
Lumina Foundation has awarded Project GRAD USA a $385,000 grant to develop a national parent engagement program to support college access for low-income and traditionally underserved students across the country. More...
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