Lumina launches rural community college adult learner cohort
Lumina supports project to reimagine how community colleges connect with adults In partnership with CollegeAPP and StrategyForward Advisors, the project will involve six rural colleges reimagining how they recruit and enroll adults. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2025 — Lumina Foundation, CollegeAPP, and StrategyForward Advisors have joined to launch the Rural Community College Adult Learner Engagement […]
Prioritizing Education for Justice-Involved Youth
The Maya Angelou Academy in Washington DC By: Julie Johnson and Raymond Rodriguez When you walk on the campus of the Maya Angelou Academy at New Beginnings, it doesn’t feel like a prison or juvenile detention center. There are no high barbed wire fences, no guards out front standing duty. The school, housing, and activity […]
Act Now: How Higher Education Can Respond in this Moment to Transform
By: Julie Johnson, Bruce Vandal, Katie Zaback, Andy Carlson, and Neal Holly With a federal investment coming that is unlike anything that has come before, postsecondary institutions are grappling with how to spend funds and what to prioritize. Questions abound over how to plug holes versus how to achieve the greatest impact. In the midst […]
The Will to Learn: Lack of Access to Education in Prison (Part I)
By: Julie Johnson, Anthony Petty, and James Carpenter Making education and training more accessible to key populations, particularly those who have not broadly been well-served by institutions of higher education, is of growing importance to our country and national economy. One such population is adult learners who are or have been incarcerated. There are currently more than […]
Higher Ed’s Charge for 2021: Go Further for Communities
By: Julie Johnson, Bruce Vandal, Neal Holly, Katie Zaback, and Andy Carlson As the calendar flips to 2021, the nation will be faced with many challenges related to COVID-19, economic distress, racial injustice and inequity, and continued political division. These daunting challenges and the steps required to address them will require all of our public […]
The Funding Glitch: Discovery of a 30-Year-Old Formula that Prevented Low-Income Students from Receiving Full State Aid
INTERVIEW WITH SCHEV’S TOM ALLISON In 2019, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) realized it had been using an out-of-date formula that caused low-income students to receive less state need-based aid than they were eligible to receive. Announcement of this finding and recommendations to fix it resulted in a drastic change to […]