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.
Because many Americans question the cost, purpose, and outcomes of higher education, it's not enough to get more individuals to enroll or even complete college. States need to help people secure credentials that pay off—in wages, career mobility, and community vitality.
Lumina Foundation’s newly formed State Attainment Collaborative aims to do just that. The yearlong effort will initially work with education, business, civic, nonprofit, and policy leaders from multiple states to define what makes a credential valuable and help those states set new goals for better-educated, better-trained residents. Watch this video to learn more.
The Trump Administration’s intrusive and even hostile federal interventions over the past year have caught university and college leaders by surprise.
When reporters at TIME magazine surveyed 103 higher education presidents and chancellors recently, they heard genuine concern for the human, intellectual, and financial toll on their institutions. And they received a wide spectrum of responses, revealing a major divide between public and private schools—and disjointed negotiation efforts.
The rise of artificial intelligence has redefined what it means to be efficient, informed, and scalable. But it’s also revealed a deeper truth: technology can accelerate progress, yet it can never replace the person behind the vision.
The best founders—whether they’re building startups, social enterprises, or school-based ventures—succeed not because of the tools they use, but because of the human skills they embody. Those who know how to merge intelligence with intuition will always have the advantage.
It’s an unlikely setting for a university—the middle of the Yakama Reservation in central Washington. But Heritage University has always been about defying expectations.
As the largest private institution situated on a reservation in the United States, Heritage stands as a testament to what becomes possible when Native communities and committed allies work together toward educational equity.
Who gets to be a doctor in America is about to change. An under-discussed component of President Donald Trump’s new domestic policy law is a new loan cap that will slowly push aspiring physicians from lower-income backgrounds out of medicine and drive future doctors away from primary care.
As the government relinquishes its support for medical students, some student advocates say it is incumbent upon medical schools to reconsider ways to make education more affordable and effective. The smartest, fastest, and most pragmatic solution is simple: shorten medical school to three years, suggest three medical experts in this op-ed.
Earlier this year, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education came out with a new classification, focused on colleges’ low-income student enrollments and whether their students wind up in well-paying jobs. Released in April, the Student Access and Earnings Classification marks a shift in Carnegie’s approach, years in the making, to assess institutions based on student success.
Now, however, some community college advocates are raising concerns that the methodology isn’t well-suited for their institutions and paints community colleges, particularly in high-cost-of-living areas, in a negative light by labeling some “lower access” or “lower earnings.”
