Lumina Foundation Focus

No more kid stuff (Fall 2009)

Colleges and universities take a mature approach to serving adult students.

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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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Lumina's monthly enewsletter

Goal 2025: aims for 60% college attainment rate, relevant degrees (January 2010)

In this issue: The 'relevant' college degree, Shortchanging poor, minorities, Year 13: information critical, The college-readiness divide, more...

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Inside Lumina's Strategic Plan is a monthly e-newsletter featuring higher education information and research. Previous Issues»

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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About Research Reports:

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

Our 2008 Annual Report

Going for the goal (2008)

Meet Steve Chrisman of Nappanee, Ind. His goal is our goal: a secure future, better opportunities and the prosperity that postsecondary education makes possible. See how Lumina Foundation reassessed its own goals in 2008 and strengthened its work with a new plan of action.

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Evaluation Reports

Results and Reflections. Making the numbers add up

A guide for using data in college access and success programs.

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About Evaluation Reports:

These reports document evaluation efforts that look closely at our work and the work of our grantees to answer: What have we learned? What works? What's next? More reports»