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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 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.

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

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.

This Citizens & Scholars report looks at the growth and early results of College Presidents for Civic Preparedness, a coalition of college presidents working to make civic preparation part of every student’s college…

Higher education has room to serve more people. Preserving that opportunity will require strategic choices about what each institution offers—and what they can offer collaboratively. A healthy tree does not grow by keeping every branch. In an environment of finite sunlight, water, and nutrients, unchecked growth can weaken the whole. Thoughtful pruning directs resources toward […]

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.

For decades, America has enjoyed an extraordinary competitive advantage that we rarely talk about: many of the world’s most talented people have wanted to study here. We have gotten so accustomed to this advantage that we seem to assume it will always exist. It won’t, and the warning signs are beginning to flash. International graduate […]

This year, I’ve traveled 18,000 miles visiting 12 states across the country to learn how education and business leaders are strengthening the connection between learning and work. As employers struggle to find skilled workers and learners seek faster, more affordable pathways to good jobs, policymakers are refining what it means for a credential to have […]

Direct admission programs help untangle the college application maze. In these stories, you’ll meet several students who are using direct admission as a new, more welcoming college pathway

A project to improve the value of workforce credentials

This Community-Engaged Alliance research brief examines how Indiana college students understand and participate in civic engagement.

This Lumina Foundation profile describes how Mississippi is using data to decide which short-term credentials are worth students’ time and money.

This Lumina Foundation profile looks at Tennessee’s work to make short-term credentials clearer, more useful and more connected to good jobs.

This PERIL report explains how online male supremacist ideas and the broader manosphere can affect college campuses.

This UnidosUS report looks at why many Latino students who want to finish college are still pushed off track.

This Lumina Foundation profile explains how Connecticut is trying to build stronger routes from education and training into good jobs.