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Direct admissions can make college easier to enter, but an early offer helps most when students also face fewer application steps and costs.

Direct admissions can help students discover colleges they had overlooked and feel more confident that their college plans are within reach.

A direct admissions offer can open a door to college only if students notice it, understand it, and know what to do next.

A discussion on steering AI development in a direction that embraces humanity to build an economy that values people and those things that make us uniquely human.

Campus conversations can give a misleading picture of what students believe when those with moderate views are less willing to speak up.

Wherever I go, everyone asks a version of this question: Do people still need to go to college when artificial intelligence seems able to do more and more of our jobs? I get why this keeps coming up. The scary-fast advancement of AI has whipped up a frenzy of uncertainty over how AI will replace […]

The way policymakers define college affordability differs from how students and families actually experience it.

The chief financial officer oversees the foundation’s investments, finance and accounting, and impact investment functions to uphold the highest standards of integrity and deliver optimal results in advancing the foundation’s mission.

Despite skills-based hiring shifts and the rise of AI, employers still value college degrees. For years, the future of work has seemed to be pointing away from the college degree. Companies have dropped degree requirements from job postings. States and employers have embraced skills-based hiring. Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape entry-level work. And recent […]

Washington Monthly’s rankings look beyond prestige to ask which colleges serve students well, keep costs manageable, and create opportunity.

They all begin college with hope, and leave without the credential they believed would shape the rest of their lives due to financial instability, family, illness

This Lumina Foundation profile looks at Illinois’ effort to connect short-term credentials with anti-poverty strategy, workforce development, and economic mobility.

This Lumina Foundation profile examines North Carolina’s work to make short-term credentials a stronger part of the state’s education-to-workforce strategy.

Kim Williams manages Lumina’s employee benefits and retirement programs.

Colleges face growing pressure to help students finish their degrees and prepare for careers, even as advisors juggle heavy caseloads and tight budgets.

In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in SFFA v. Harvard that race-conscious admissions policies violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The decision had an immediate impact on how colleges and universities determine who gets into their institutions. Three years after the ruling, researchers and […]

Discover the journeys of individuals pursuing post-secondary education, including those more likely to be adults, working, and raising children while trying to get ahead in the job market.

What does it mean to do good work when the consequences may directly affect another person’s health, safety, dignity, or life? When we spoke with healthcare students and employers as part of our Good Work Value Alignment Study, participants universally valued expertise: healthcare professionals need deep knowledge and technical competence. But no one described good healthcare work as expertise alone.

A college credential should prepare people to do good work, not simply help them get hired or earn a higher salary.

If there is any field where we might expect technical expertise to dominate conversations about career readiness, information technology would seem to be it. Coding languages, technical knowledge, systems, software, and networks all matter. And yet, when we spoke with IT students and employers as part of our Good Work Value Alignment Study, both groups repeatedly returned to the same point: technical knowledge isn’t enough.