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A student’s course schedule is one of the most consequential (and often overlooked) factors shaping whether they stay on track for their degree or credential. Yet the path to earning a degree or credential remains unnecessarily difficult for far too many students. Beyond juggling work, family, financial, and academic demands, they can also encounter barriers […]

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.

“Where can I learn to fix boat engines?” my teenage son asked one day.

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

At Lumina Foundation, data and measurement help us understand progress, support partners, and strengthen the field’s ability to help more people earn credentials of value.

For decades, colleges benefited from a simple assumption: prestige signaled value. A bachelor’s degree from a respected institution was widely seen as the gold standard, while community colleges and certificates occupied lower rungs of the educational hierarchy.

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Advisors are among the most consequential professionals on a college campus. But often the systems in place around them don’t reflect that reality.

Every year, Gallup’s survey on confidence in higher education generates a familiar headline: Americans are losing faith in colleges and universities.

For many students, the journey to college begins with stress, not excitement. They’re left asking fundamental questions: Do I belong in college? Can I afford it? Where do I even begin?

Workforce Pell takes effect on July 1 this year. The expansion of the entitlement program opens access to many more Americans seeking high-quality, short-term training programs that lead to in-demand jobs.

Eiziah Lieblein, an incoming freshman at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, is using guaranteed college admission as a springboard to success.

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.

Direct admit is expanding statewide in California. Learn how it’s opening opportunities for students like Milana Waggoner and her peers at Cal State in San Bernardino.

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

If millions of adults say they want more education or training, why aren’t more of them enrolling?

We live in a world where language is regularly weaponized for political, economic, or other purposes. One of the best examples of that in recent years has been the way in which critics of higher education have seized on the term “liberal arts” to confuse and distort what is behind the term.