Lumina Foundation Designates 17 Cities as Talent Hubs
Sept. 23, 2017
$6 million in grants is awarded by Lumina and Kresge to cities that attract, retain, and cultivate talent, particularly among today’s students.
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← Return to mainThe nation’s largest community college system prepares for the future
July 5, 2017
A new report from the Institute for the Future (IFTF) examines the California Community Colleges’ Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy initiative. The system is using a “solutions network" approach to transform community colleges. The network described in the report connects resources across institutions, eliminates waste, redundancy, and silos, and shares lessons from campuses to quickly capitalize on innovations.
Lumina Foundation interviews edX about new MicroMasters® programs
May 22, 2017
Lumina Senior Advisor for Credentialing & Workforce Development Holly Zanville interviews the project lead for the edX grant, Nina Huntemann, director of academics and research, to see how the work is going.
New assessment tool puts for-profit focus on student success
Oct. 7, 2016
After two years of development, B Lab has released voluntary standards for for-profit universities operating as public benefit corporations to establish themselves as B Lab-certified social enterprises. This addendum supplements the existing benchmarking tool, which may be used by nonprofit and for-profit entities of all types to establish they are doing well by doing good.