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 Community Colleges: Across the United States nearly 1,200 community colleges play a vital role in higher education. They enroll more than 11.5 million students — nearly half of all undergraduates — and they attract high proportions of low-income, minority and first-generation college students. Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, particularly students of color and low-income students. The initiative works on multiple fronts — including efforts at community colleges and in research, public engagement and public policy — and emphasizes the use of data to drive change.
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PublicationsCommunication initiatives are central to our mission, and we offer a range of publications to disseminate information about our work.
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Recent publications:
- Lumina Foundation Focus: Pillars of Progress (PDF)—Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) often go above and beyond the call of duty to encourage engagement and provide support to traditionally underrepresented students. This issue of Lumina Foundation Focus magazine, titled "Pillars of progress," examines MSIs and their efforts to maximize student success. (Spring 2008)
- Lumina Foundation Lessons: Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count (PDF)— We must collect better student success data. America's colleges and universities cannot fulfill their mission if large numbers of students fail to complete a program of study. This issue of Lumina Foundation Lessons demonstrates the power of data to inform and transform postsecondary institutions. (Winter 2008)
- Lumina Foundation Focus: Campus connections (PDF) — 'Near-peer' mentoring and other innovative efforts help widen the college track. In this issue, you'll read about programs increasing college access and success in Maine, Virginia, North Carolina, Washington state and at the national level. (Fall 2007)
- 2006 Annual Report (PDF) — The United States is slipping as a competitor in the global economy. Postsecondary educational attainment is key to reversing this trend. Lumina Foundation is committed to collaborating with others to restore the United States as a global leader in educational attainment by 2025.
- Lumina Foundation Focus: A changing picture — College costs are rising and rates of degree attainment are falling. Those trends, coupled with growing gaps in success rates between white students and students of color demand change to ensure a postsecondary system that will meet the nation's future needs. Read the latest edition of Lumina Foundation Focus and learn about four innovative programs to help more students succeed. (Winter 2007)
- Lumina Foundation Lessons: Places — and faces — that foster student success (PDF) — In 2002, universities across Indiana began experimenting with strategies to enhance persistence rates among freshmen and sophomore students. See what our grantees have learned, and read Lumina Foundation Lessons: Places — and faces — that foster student success. (March 2007)
- Returning to Learning: Adults' Success in College is Key to America's Future (PDF), lead author, Brian Pusser of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education — Read a summary of findings from the Emerging Pathways project, which seeks to identify the diverse needs and characteristics of adult learners, understand patterns of enrollment in credit and non-credit-bearing courses and offer advice to postsecondary institutions and policymakers committed to adult learners' success. (March 2007)
- Critical Connections: Linking States’ Unit Record Systems to Track Student Progress (PDF), by Peter Ewell and Marianne Boeke, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems — Learn why better student-tracking data would enhance efforts to help college students succeed and fill a critical economic need to increase the number of students who earn college degrees. (February 2007)
Lumina Foundation for Education publications: - The New Agenda Series is a series of 40- to 60-page research monographs, each examining a particular topic affecting access to higher education.
- Illuminations offers a two- to four-page overview, summerizing New Agenda Series monographs and other higher education topics.
- Student Access & Success News is a monthly newsletter featuring recent higher education initiatives and reports.
- Lumina Foundation Focus magazine is an occasional publication that highlights issues important to higher education access and success.
- Research Reports offer in-depth examinations of important issues in education, though those issues may be peripheral to the Foundation's main mission.
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