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Across Lumina’s State Attainment Collaborative (SAC) cohort, states are making significant progress in bringing people together to advance value- centered attainment goals. See examples of state progress.

Advancing an Aspirational Vision for Higher Education

This report looks at whether U.S. colleges and universities have more teaching capacity than they are actually using. In simple terms, it asks: do schools have enough students to match the number of instructors, programs, classrooms, and academic resources they have built? The report finds that, in many places, the answer is increasingly no.

Intentional Futures and Lumina Foundation collaborated to envision a integrated federal education and training data system.

The Federal Work-Study (FWS) program provides more than $1 billion in support annually to more than 450,000 college students with financial need nationwide.

State-led workforce investments are emerging as flexible and consequential policy levers during a time of economic change.

The Pell Grant program is the federal government’s most effective investment in college affordability, but the share of college costs covered by the grant is at an all-time low.

Nationally, 82 percent of high schools offer dual enrollment, and about one-third of students take at least one dual enrollment course by graduation.

Interest in how community colleges can improve short-term occupational training programs is gaining momentum.

Adding on to the largest national survey of prospective adult students. An updated view of demand, motivations, and barriers shaping postsecondary enrollment.

It is estimated that about a fifth of undergraduates in college are parents. A disproportionate share of student parents attends community colleges, which have more flexible programs that cater to adult students.

Millions of Americans can change their economic trajectories by upgrading their education and skills in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.

The United States has nearly 4,000 degree-granting four-year colleges and universities.

Federal supports like the Pell Grant and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are critical lifelines that help millions of students from low-income backgrounds afford college and meet basic needs each...

New research from the Brookings Institution contends that while corequisite remediation shows modest benefits in English and quantitative reasoning math, it has not proven effective for college algebra.

Over a quarter of U.S. adults between the ages of 25 and 64—representing 41.7 million people—intend to enroll in some type of higher education program or training within the next two years, says this report from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and CollegeAPP.

For most renters, eviction risk declines with age. But for student parents aged 35 to 39, the data tell a different story, according to this analysis from New America and the Eviction Lab.

Of the 2.6 million college students who first enrolled in fall 2024, 85.8 percent returned to higher education in the spring for their second semester, according to new data by the National Student Clearinghouse...