Lumina Foundation

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Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Lumina’s outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an accessible, responsive, and accountable higher education system while fostering a national sense of urgency for action to achieve Goal 2025.

Publications

Funded Initiatives

Degrees When Due

Degrees When Due (DWD) is an innovative, nationwide completion initiative led by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). DWD helps participating institutions improve their student completion rates by sharing data-driven strategies and tactics through a free web-based platform. Institutions apply an equity lens to their own real-time student data to ensure that todays’ students – students of color, low-income students, working students, student parents, and others – are re-engaged to cross the finish line.
Looking Back to Move Forward: A History of Federal Student Aid

This documentary series provides insight into the programs’ origins, milestones, and current issues as we ponder future direction and navigate foreseeable roadblocks to new policy innovation.
Pathways to College Network

IHEP directs and is a core member of the Pathways to College Network (PCN), an alliance of national partners working collaboratively to improve college access and success for underserved students.
Summer Academy

IHEP Summer Academies gathered college and university teams to create and refine comprehensive action plans for institutional change.
Minority-Serving Institutions-Models of Success Program

The Lumina MSI-Models of Success program worked with more than 25 minority-serving institutions to improve and document increased post-secondary attainment.
BEAMS

BEAMS fostered data-driven projects to facilitate minority students’ participation and success in higher education.
Community Partnership for Attainment

Community Partnership for Attainment is a community mobilization initiative designed to dramatically increase the number of local residents with postsecondary credentials.

Learn more and view IHEP’s tactical guidebooks here.
Global Initiatives

IHEP regularly contributed to international projects to track higher education ranking systems, performance, and financing.
Project Win-Win

Sixty-one participating colleges (in nine states) joined forces to locate qualified students who never received an associate's degree and to award those degrees retroactively. This effort also identified former students who were no more than nine to 12 credits short of an associate’s degree and sought to find and bring them back to college to complete the degree. To date, more than 4,500 students have received degrees retroactively, as a result of this effort.

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