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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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Research Advisory CommitteeLumina Foundation places a high value on research as a key strategy in its mission of improving student access and success in postsecondary education.
Our Research Advisory Committee will help the Foundation in using research to improve policy and practice in higher education. These national higher education experts include:  |
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- Ansley Abraham, Director, State Doctoral Scholars Program, Southern Regional Education Board (Stone Mountain, GA)
- Clifford Adelman, Senior Associate, Institute for Higher Education Policy, (Washington, DC)
- Peter Ewell, Vice President, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (Boulder, CO)
- Christine Johnson, President, Community College of Denver (Denver, CO)
- Bridget Terry Long, Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, MA)
- David Longanecker, Executive Director, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (Boulder, CO)
- Arturo Madrid, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)
- Michael Nettles, Senior Vice President, Center for Policy Research & Evaluation, Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ)
- Laura Perna, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
- Robert Tad Perry, Executive Director, South Dakota Board of Regents (Pierre, SD)
- Brian Pusser, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
- Sheri Ranis, Senior Research Officer, U.S. Programs/Education Division, Gates Foundation (Seattle, WA)
- Jan Somerville, Staff Officer, National Association of System Heads (Washington, DC)
- Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor, Higher
Education Program Chair, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
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