Access and Success Series
Focusing on Adult Learners in Postsecondary Education: Responding to the Challenge in a New Age
In October 2011, Lumina Foundation and the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) convened a meeting focused on how to transform higher education to serve adult learners most effectively in the 21st century. A diverse group of postsecondary leaders, accreditors, employers, policy makers, and adult learning advocates worked together to outline priorities for ensuring adult academic and career success in a time of resource constraints in higher education. This action-oriented convening started with questions related to serving adult learners better and progressed to a discussion of specific steps needed in order to respond to the challenges of a new age. More »
The Role of Education in Our National Security
Holly Zanville, Program Director, Lumina Foundation The Pell Institute Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) 30th Annual Conference on America’s Future, Washington, DC Good morning. It’s a great pleasure to join you today to share with you why Lumina is More »
Beyond Basic Skills: State Strategies to Connect Low-Skilled Students to an Employer-Valued Postsecondary Education
This report, from the Center for Law and Social Policy, calls on states to connect basic skills education with postsecondary education as way to meet needs of both lower-skilled individuals and the labor market. Among the strategies the report suggests: More »
Complete to Compete: Improving Postsecondary Attainment Among Adults
Providing more opportunities to help adults retool and reskill is essential to meeting future workforce demands. The use of cross-institutional data and the creation of flexible and integrated learning environments are two ways that states can improve their postsecondary credential More »
Degree Completion
Measuring Success by Degrees: The status of college completion in SREB states
Not enough students in the South enroll in college immediately after high school, and too many students who start two- and four-year degrees and certificates do not finish, says this report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). This report More »
