Lumina Foundation Focus

Pillars of progress (Spring 2008)

Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) often go above and beyond the call of duty to encourage engagement and provide support to traditionally underrepresented students. Examine MSIs and their efforts to maximize student success.

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Lumina Foundation Focus features human-interest stories that highlight higher education issues in a reader-friendly, magazine-style format. Previous Issues»

Lumina Foundation Lessons

Students aren't just data points, but numbers do count (Winter 2008)

Learn how the power of data can inform and transform postsecondary institutions. The imperative is to collect better student-success data.

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About Lessons Magazine:

Lessons Magazine evaluates the programs we fund to broaden the impact of our grant making.
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Research Reports

Returning to Learning: Adults' Success in College is Key to America's Future (March 2007)

Read findings by the Emerging Pathways project, discussing the need to develop the untapped potential of the 54 million working adults who have not completed a four-year degree.

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Each of these 40- to 60-page monographs explores a particular topic affecting access to higher education. More reports»

Student Access & Success News

Lumina E-newsletter (May 2008)

In this issue: BEAMS Project findings, More spent on prisons than higher ed in some states, Cost containment: strategy essential for institutions, Community colleges not meeting distance ed demands, more.

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Student Access and Success News is a monthly e-newsletter featuring higher education information and research. Previous Issues»

Our 2007 Annual Report

A Duty to Dream (2007)

Revisiting our 2007 grantmaking strengthens our duty to dream and reminds us of our need to continue working with the dedication that initially inspired us.

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