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National debates about improving higher education show one key puzzle piece for student success is often missing: the kind of meaningful, connected teaching that helps all students learn, thrive, and gain real-world skills.

An #EdUp podcast from ASU+GSV 2026 hosted by Joe Sallustio, featuring Destin Mizelle, Enoch Ellis, and Tobias M. Brown. with Destin Mizelle⁠, ⁠Enoch Ellis⁠, & ⁠Tobias M. Brown⁠, Roadtrippers, ⁠Roadtrip Nation How does a PBS documentary called Thriving: Black Men in Higher Education show young black men that a black astrophysicist, a black economist & a media psychologist […]

Community colleges are key to expanding equitable, career-connected pathways for Hispanic students, but gaps remain in attaining credentials of value. Strengthening clear, affordable, and workforce-aligned education systems is essential to improve outcomes, economic mobility, and meet future labor market demands.

This document details the methodology for counting certificates and certifications that are
used for reporting beginning in 2024 (applies to 2023 data and forward).

The steps below describe the methods ECOnorthwest uses to calculate Lumina Foundation’s
credential-of-value benchmark and identify the number and share of individuals meeting the
benchmark, using Census Bureau’s American Community Survey Public Use Microdata
(PUMS).

Creating Indicators, not Answers, Stronger Nation: Data Management, The Five-part Harmony, Setting Benchmarks

In this deep-dive episode, we talk with experts and practitioners to better understand what makes a practice high-impact, the factors that drive institutional change, and the importance of authentically engaging faculty in the design and implementation of HIPs.

It’s time to transform college admissions from gatekeeper to gateway. Lumina is catalyzing a national admissions redesign movement by supporting projects focused on making processes simpler, streamlined, and more accessible.

Through its Great Admissions Redesign initiative, Lumina today announced over $3.5 million in grants to 10 states, systems, and institutions that are leading a national shift to make admissions simpler, more proactive, and student-centered.

We believe there’s a better way for students to navigate to college. A way where students see their next move clearly, the route ahead is straightforward, and where stress and uncertainty are replaced with excitement—even joy.

Earlier this month, I was at the airport on my way to a meeting on artificial intelligence in higher ed when I noticed an ad for another AI conference. Headlines about AI dominate my phone notifications. I flip on the TV, and there’s more news coverage about what the technology means for our future, our jobs, our lives.

James “Jim” Bullard is dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University, a position he assumed in August 2023. He also serves as special advisor to Purdue President Mung Chiang and as a Distinguished Professor of Service in the business school’s economics department.

Bridget M. McCormack is president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution, a global provider of alternative dispute resolution services.

Artificial intelligence has become a routine part of college life, even as many institutions struggle to set clear rules for its use. New research from Lumina Foundation and Gallup finds that a majority of college students now use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini for their coursework at least weekly, including many students at schools that discourage or prohibit their use.

Across Lumina’s State Attainment Collaborative (SAC) cohort, states are making significant progress in engaging stakeholders to advance value-centered attainment goals.

Higher education continues to play a central role in hiring decisions. However, employers report growing challenges in finding candidates with the right skills and preparing recent graduates for immediate effectiveness. The 2026 Gallup survey of 2,000 U.S. employers from Lumina Foundation and Gallup examines how employers view the state of higher education and the talent pipeline it produces.

For a decade, we’ve heard that the college degree is fading. Employers are dropping requirements. Skills matter more than credentials. The four-year diploma is an outdated filter in a world of AI and rapid disruption.

Puerto Rico is the seventh U.S. jurisdiction with the highest percentage of adults ages 25 to 64 who hold postsecondary credentials, with 60.1% of that population having completed a credential beyond a high school diploma, according to a study by Lumina Foundation.

It’s hard to know what to think about artificial intelligence these days. The pendulum swings wildly, with some people warning of a robotic surveillance state while others dismiss the trend as overblown hype.

High-impact practices have long been part of higher education for years. Yet too often, they are treated as optional experiences available to only some students. A new generation of colleges and universities is working to change that by embedding career-connected learning directly into the fabric of the undergraduate experience so that every student can connect their education to meaningful work.