Transformative changes are needed to reach the goal and ensure a majority of Americans get the learning so important for success in the 21st century.
Lumina Foundation has announced the appointment of Carol Geary Schneider as Lumina Foundation’s latest fellow, a resource designed to engage prominent thought leaders who are committed to advancing the nation’s efforts to dramatically increase the number of Americans with high-quality postsecondary credentials.
An analysis of Advocate Health Care’s Education Assistance Program (EAP), conducted by Accenture and partner Lumina Foundation, shows a 4-percent return on every dollar invested in tuition assistance for the health system. For Advocate’s business and administrative workforce, EAP generates a 58-percent ROI.
Lumina releases the third and final round of papers exploring how public colleges and universities are responding to moves nationally by state policymakers toward the use of outcomes-based funding and away from enrollment-based funding.
Lumina announces impact investing program with the first group of strategic social investments: Credly, BridgeEdu, and New Profit.
Investing in college tuition as an employee benefit helps companies attract and retain top talent, but a new study shows another compelling reason to embrace the benefit: it improves the bottom line.
The U.S. is making slow, but steady progress in the number of Americans who hold high-quality credentials beyond high school diplomas. New data on nationwide postsecondary attainment released today by Lumina Foundation in its latest A Stronger Nation report indicates that 40.4 percent of working-age Americans (ages 25-64) held high-quality two- or four-year degrees in 2014, the latest U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey) figures available, up slightly from 40.0 percent in 2013.
A new series of reports argue for tying public funding to student outcomes.
Lumina Foundation released the first installment in a series of papers on how states and public institutions are using new outcomes-based funding models to improve upon outdated performance- and enrollment-based funding approaches.
An overwhelming majority of Americans say the federal government should make it a high priority to increase the talent of our nation’s workforce, according to a new Gallup-Lumina Foundation Pulse Poll.