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Lumina Foundation is a conversion foundation created in mid-2000 as USA Group, Inc., which sold most of its operating assets to the Student Loan Marketing Association, Inc. (Sallie Mae). Proceeds from the sale established the USA Group Foundation with an endowment of $770M. The foundation was renamed Lumina Foundation for Education in February ...
Jamie Merisotis is the current president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, a private organization in the United States that aims to increase the number of Americans holding high-quality degrees, certificates, and credentials to 60% by 2025. [1] With an endowment of $1.6 billion, Merisotis leads the foundation's efforts towards this goal.
For example, a report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation found that "adults' interest in pursuing some form of higher education is at the highest level" the organizations ever recorded.
The center is funded by grants from the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Publications. In June 2010 the Center published Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018. The report projected education demand for jobs, by industry and occupation, through to 2018.
The ISRA was developed with funding from Lumina Foundation for Education. [15] That same year, with support from TG, [13] EPI created the Effective Practices in Student Success (EPSS) [16] database. The EPSS currently includes 141 programs from across the US and Canada with evidence-based strategies for postsecondary access and success.
Originally an initiative led by the Lumina Foundation, Achieving the Dream focuses on increasing the success of college students – particularly students of color and students from low-income backgrounds. Starting in 2004, the project funded promising, data-driven approaches to strengthening remedial education coursework.
A survey by Gallup and Lumina Foundation released earlier this year found that many Americans are skeptical about the value and cost of college. Over half of U.S. adults who have never been ...
She has served on the AERA Grants Governing Board, advisory panels for the U.S. Department of Education, Lumina Foundation, and Spencer Foundation, and was a member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Postsecondary Value Commission. She has been Editor of Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research annual book series since 2018.