Lumina Foundation is working to increase the share of adults in the U.S. labor force with college degrees or other credentials of value leading to economic prosperity.
Forty-three million Americans have started college but left without earning a credential. That group, known as “some college, no credential,” or SCNC, is larger than the population of California. And it continues to grow.
As states and colleges look to boost education levels and meet workforce demands, helping these people re-engage with learning is more urgent and more possible than ever. Watch this video to learn more.
Much of higher education’s attention during the debate and passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act centered on changes to student loans, Pell Grants, and endowment taxes.
Meanwhile, many media outlets have focused on how the bill, with its $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, would affect health care for the underserved. The fate of the government’s health insurance program might seem distant from the business of colleges and universities, but these things are more closely linked than they seem on the surface. The Medicaid cuts could significantly impact rural health, but they also present risks to university medical systems and college budgets overall.
In just six months, the Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Congress have brought lasting change—and enormous unpredictability—to federal education policy. Specifically, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which President Trump signed into law on July 4, imposes a host of new obligations on the scaled-down U.S. Department of Education.
Here is what students, K-12 schools, and colleges should know about the changes they can expect now that the legislation has officially become law.
When sweeping announcements became public earlier this year that a swath of federal workers were slated to lose their jobs in the nation’s capital, neighboring state and city governments—Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.—began to make the best out of a tough situation.
Perhaps, state and local leaders thought, newly unemployed civil servants might be interested in shifting their professional energy away from processing Social Security benefits and deploying foreign aid and toward teaching students in the classroom.
Caitlin Payne had a difficult path to the upskilling she needed to move ahead in her healthcare career while attending to the needs of her family, which includes four boys, two with chronic health conditions.
An "Earn While You Learn" program offered by her employer, Charlottesville, Virginia-based University of Virginia Health, in conjunction with Piedmont Virginia Community College, is making that path a great deal easier.
A federal judge appeared deeply skeptical on Monday of the Trump administration’s efforts to strip Harvard University of billions of dollars in research funding, suggesting the school might prevail in its legal battle against the government.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs did not issue a ruling during the crucial hearing, which lasted more than two hours in her courtroom in Boston. But she did seem receptive to Harvard’s arguments, as both the school and the government seek to have the case decided in their favor without a trial.
