| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.09.2026 | Brighteye Ventures lands $72M first close to back the future of learning and work | Brighteye Ventures has announced a $72 million first close of their Fund III, taking the firm to a total of $245 million in AUM. Brighteye invests in early-stage European companies shaping the future of learning and work worldwide.
Since in... |
| 15.08.2026 | College can cost $100,000 a year. Here’s how families are covering the tab | Higher education has a growing affordability problem.
Now, nearly half of families borrow money to pay for college, according to Sallie Mae’s new How America Pays for College report.
College tuition continues to increase faster than any oth... |
| 21.07.2026 | BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google launch skilled trades workforce initiative | BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google announced they are working together to elevate America’s skilled trades.
The U.S. faces a growing shortage of electrical workers, technicians and builders.
The Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades inten... |
| 11.07.2026 | EdVisorly Secures $13.3M: AI Reshapes College Admissions | EdVisorly secures $13.3M Series A funding. Breachway Capital led the round. The EdTech innovator modernizes college admissions via AI. Its EddyAI platform automates complex workflows. This dramatically boosts efficiency for higher education... |
| 09.07.2026 | EdVisorly Raises $13.3 Million Series A To Modernize College Admissions And Enrollment | EdVisorly, an AI-powered enrollment technology company serving higher education institutions, announced it has raised $13.3 million in Series A funding to accelerate product development, expand customer support, and help colleges and univer... |
| 09.07.2026 | EdVisorly Raises $13.3M Series A Funding | EdVisorly, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of an educational technology (EdTech) platform for colleges and universities, raised $13.3M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Breachway Capital, with participation from U.S. News & Wor... |
| 18.05.2026 | As more jobs demand AI skills, some colleges may fall short in prepping students: ‘Why would we train them using the skills of yesterday?’ | As companies integrate artificial intelligence into the workforce, college graduates in virtually every industry will likely need experience working with AI tools to secure jobs.
But educators and career experts say if colleges and universi... |
| 23.02.2026 | Securing the future: Simplified management, Scalable growth, and built-in compliance for K-12 | - |
| 09.10.2025 | Trump administration cuts grants to Colorado colleges serving high percentage of diverse students | Colorado colleges — primarily in rural, underserved areas of the state — are losing millions in funding after the Trump administration last month announced an end to $350 million in federal grant programs for minority-serving institutions a... |
| 30.06.2025 | New Podcast Series from WorkingNation and WABE Studios Exposes the Hidden Economics of Motherhood | Uncovering the real price of failing to support working mothers.
LOS ANGELES, AZ, UNITED STATES, June 30, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- America’s workforce is facing a critical shortage of skilled talent. Yet millions of working mothers remain... |
| 26.06.2025 | Wazoku partners with Lumina Foundation to launch global challenge on the value of education after high school | Simon Hill, CEO, Wazoku
$15,000 prize to be awarded for innovative models that quantify the return on higher education
Education systems are under pressure globally to justify their value, not just to students, but to society.”
— Simon Hill... |
| 02.03.2025 | Koia™ Shakes Up the Protein Market with New Powder Line | In a world where health trends come and go like the tide, Koia™ is making waves. The brand, known for its ready-to-drink protein shakes, is stepping into new territory with the launch of its first-ever protein powder. This move is not just ... |
| 27.02.2025 | Pioneering Seattle-Based University Names Seasoned Higher Education Leader and Grantmaker as New President | City University of Seattle names Suzanne E. Walsh as its next president.
City University of Seattle announces Suzanne E. Walsh as its next president; transformational leader in higher education innovation, philanthropy and student success w... |
| 08.07.2024 | More Americans say college just isn't worth it, survey finds | Here's why a small college in New England decided to dramatically lower its tuition price
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Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value a... |
| 12.06.2024 | Stetson President Joins 70 College Presidents to Uphold Free Expression on Campuses | Stetson University President Christopher F. Roellke, PhD
Stetson University President Christopher F. Roellke, PhD, is joining 70 other college presidents from across the country to advance higher education's pivotal role in preparing studen... |
| 22.05.2024 | Can you afford an extra semester? How tuition insurance can help | (BPT) - Given the current economic climate, social issues, and rising college tuition, completing a higher education degree has become quite difficult.
While some students are still overcoming the 2024 FAFSA difficulties, consumers are smar... |
| 14.05.2024 | Lumina Foundation sponsors the Work Forces podcast | Podcast focused on the future of work and learning supported by prominent foundation RHODE ISLAND, UNITED STATES, May 14, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, J. Alssid Associates announced Lumina Foundation as the inaugural sponsor for Work F... |
| 17.04.2024 | College costs the biggest barrier for most Americans, survey finds | The sky-high price tag on a college degree is stopping people in their tracks.
Why it matters: Cost is a major barrier to both pursuing and obtaining a college degree or postsecondary credential and it's a reason why enrolled students consi... |
| 17.04.2024 | Student-loan borrowers have delayed buying a home or car, having kids, and getting married because of their debt — even for those with balances smaller than $10,000 | Economy Student-loan borrowers have delayed buying a home or car, having kids, and getting married because of their debt — even for those with balances smaller than $10,000
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| 15.03.2024 | Claire Fiddian-Green and Chris Lowery: Boosting FAFSA completion rates key to Indiana’s future | - |
| 07.03.2024 | Fewer Latino students consider leaving college, but barriers remain | The percentage of Hispanic college students who said they considered leaving school in 2023 dropped significantly from the previous year, according to a Gallup report released last week.
Why it matters: The lower rates indicate attendance b... |
| 29.02.2024 | The Illinois Board of Higher Education Announced as Winner of The Great Admissions Redesign Challenge | ILLINOIS, February 29 - IBHE one of three organizations awarded a $750,000 grant in the national competition to transform how students get into college
INDIANAPOLIS - Lumina Foundation has named the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE)... |
| 20.09.2023 | The Value Of College Can’t Be Reduced To Only Dollars And Cents | Woman studies graphs on a computer screenGetty Images/iStockphoto |
| 08.09.2023 | It's Time To Make College Opportunities More Automatic | Female college graduategetty |
| 06.09.2023 | On The Value Of College, Higher Ed Has A ‘Great Choir’ Of Supporters—But Many People Can’t Hear The Music | College students at graduation.Getty Images/iStockphoto |
| 08.08.2023 | Education, workforce Indiana Chamber of Commerce plans for next decade | The Indiana Chamber of Commerce wants leaders to spend the next decade tackling state shortcomings like education attainment and access to opportunities for minorities.
Driving the news: The chamber yesterday released a new vision plan for ... |
| 21.06.2023 | States Scramble To Fill The Tech Talent Shortage | Engineers Work on a drone project in their laboratory.Getty Images/iStockphoto |
| 01.06.2023 | American Association of State Colleges and Universities Launches New Initiative to Help Higher Education Lead for a More Equitable and Just Society | “During a time of increasing partisan polarization and growing uncertainty around the health of the American polity, fostering a stronger and more inclusive democratic discourse begins on our nation’s college campuses,” said Mildred García,... |
| 18.04.2023 | What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom? | For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically requires students to spend a minimum nu... |
| 23.03.2023 | Helping Underserved Students Find The Right Postsecondary Pathway | Dan Fisher is the president and CEO of ECMC Group, a nonprofit focused on helping students succeed in postsecondary education. |
| 27.10.2022 | Biden’s Labor Department Launches WIOA Campaign To Promote Job Quality And Equity | Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su (L) and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (R) have launched the ... [+] "Yes, WIOA Can" campaign to dispel myths about how the $3.6 billion U.S. workforce system can be used to improve job quality, ... |
| 18.08.2022 | Madera Community College Wins Lumina’s Million Dollar Community College Challenge | Madera Community College (California) has won the Lumina Foundation's Million Dollar Community ... [+] College Challenge. Madera Community College |
| 20.05.2022 | CCAMPIS: Investing in the Futures of Student Parents in Higher Education | By: Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D., Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Education
The COVID-19 pandemic proved to all of us just how important access to childcare and early childhood education is not only for children, but for ... |
| 09.05.2022 | Three Proactive Ways To Attract The Workforce Of The Future | Eric Allison is Head of Strategic Development of Staffing Venture Capital and President & Managing Partner of TeamRecruit. |
| 13.04.2022 | The Kessler Scholars Program Expands To Ten More Leading Colleges And Universities | Brown University is one of ten colleges that will be adding the Kessler Scholars program to its ... [+] campus thanks to $10 million in private donations. getty |
| 30.03.2022 | High School Grade Inflation Is A Problem. Getting Rid Of The SAT Would Make It Worse. | Across the land, college admissions offices are abandoning the SAT and ACT. Before the pandemic, 1,050 schools were already test optional or test blind, and the pandemic only accelerated this trend. Inside Higher Ed has reported that over 1... |
| 10.02.2022 | The Million Dollar Community College Challenge | A new national grant competition will help community colleges build their brands and strengthen ... [+] their marketing outreach, particularly to adult students. getty |
| 17.01.2022 | Walmart : We're Making Walmart the Best Place for Everyone by Creating Opportunity | To: All U.S. based associates
From: Donna Morris, Chief People Officer
Ben Hasan, SVP and Global Chief Culture, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer
Today we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his commitment to serv... |
| 07.12.2021 | Twenty Community Colleges Receive Grants To Boost Adult Student Enrollment | The Lumina Foundation will work with several partners, including Achieving the Dream, Ideas 42, RPK ... [+] Group, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to help 20 community colleges increase adult student enrollment., getty |
| 21.10.2021 | Walmart : and Walmart.org Increase Access to Educational Opportunities for Black and African Americans | BENTONVILLE, Ark., Oct. 21, 2021- Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Walmart.org today announced a trio of additional shared value and philanthropic initiatives that build on its strategy to advance equity in education, including:
Three leading H... |
| 04.10.2021 | Do You Need to Go to College to Work in Crypto? | Against all authority
“I told my parents, I’m willing to die on this hill. I don’t want to go on with this because it’s just about ticking boxes. My dad happened to agree.
“We went to the school, I think it was on my 16th birthday, and I wi... |
| 14.09.2021 | Stop treating community colleges as the fallback option or a last resort | Professor Christian Agunwamba writes on the board while teaching his ‘Fundamentals of Algebra’ class at Bunker Hill Community College Brian Snyder
Branding community colleges as the fallback plan in education isn’t helping students or colle... |
| 13.09.2021 | Security National : 5 Money Mistakes Every College Student Makes (And How to Avoid Them) | September 13, 2021
We've all lightly used the term, 'broke college student.' Some of us have even lived it.
But for many students heading off to college this fall, the thought of being broke is no joke. In fact, according to Everfi's Money ... |
| 13.08.2021 | Lumina Announces More Than $5 Million In Grant Competitions To Advance Its 60% Attainment Goal | The Lumina Foundation has announced three new grant competitions aimed at making progress on its ... [+] "Big Goal" of 60% of American adults earning a high-quality postsecondary credential by 2025.getty |
| 22.02.2021 | New From U.S. Census Bureau: Number of Americans With A Bachelor’s Degree Continues To Grow | The number of American adults with a bachelor's degree or higher has steadily increased over the ... [+] past 15 years. getty |
| 31.12.2020 | Recovering From 2020 Requires Supporting Students, Starting With Their Basic Needs | Around the world, people are starting to turn hopeful eyes toward the new year as the fervent desire to banish 2020 grows. Many have tried to find meaning from the loss we’ve experienced over the past year. But the lessons to be learned her... |
| 15.12.2020 | New Gallup, Lumina Survey: College Students Evaluate Their Experiences During The Pandemic | According to a new national survey, college students still found their college experiences during ... [+] the pandemic to be worthwhile, but many now have doubts about whether they will finish their degree.getty |
| 01.12.2020 | Giving Tuesday: How Education Philanthropies Are Supporting Learners And Workers | Today is Giving Tuesday – a day when those fortunate enough to give financially – make gifts to nonprofits, community-based organizations and causes that inspire action. Many community foundations across the country also align matching camp... |
| 30.10.2020 | Human Work: Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do | Learner OutcomesAltitude Learning |
| 25.09.2020 | R.B.G. And The Future Of Higher Education | It’s been a week since we lost Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A truly great American for her service on the Supreme Court, but equally for her groundbreaking advocacy in the decades prior, R.B.G. passed away on Erev Rosh Hashanah. Today she b... |
| 10.09.2020 | Programs For Student Parents Need Greater Focus On ROI (Cost + Career Connections) | Rise PrizeBambang Widodo |
| 11.06.2020 | A Gap Year Shouldn’t Be Just For The Privileged, Especially Now | Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., is reinventing its freshman year program with a virtual gap ... [+] year. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| 21.04.2020 | Degreed Co-Founders Raise $3.5 Million to Help Employees Take Training Sabbaticals | Eight years after he co-founded corporate learning platform Degreed, David Blake continues to battle a major obstacle to employees learning new skills to advance their careers—not enough time in the day.
At many companies, education often f... |
| 09.04.2020 | Three Core Principles For Higher Education As It Prepares For Its Pandemic-Uncertain Fall | With the fall semester still in doubt because of the COVID-19 pandemic, university faculty are ... [+] learning and sharing how to optimize virtual learningGetty |
| 27.03.2020 | Bolstering Academic Support & Student Employment During COVID-19 | |
| 06.12.2019 | Welcome To The Third Age Of Online Education | The strangest things can trigger intense memories. For Marcel Proust, the taste of a madeleine cookie famously unleashed his entire childhood. In The Game, a reflection on life and hockey, my boyhood hero Ken Dryden, the great Montreal Cana... |
| 13.11.2019 | A $157M Fundraise for Guild Education Births Edtech’s Newest Unicorn | The education technology industry has given birth to its newest unicorn, one that wants to connect employees at Fortune 1000 corporations to educational programs and further their careers—all while helping higher-ed institutions stay in bus... |
| 22.08.2019 | In a Changing Career Landscape, Employers and Workers Need a New Social Contract for Retraining | There’s a growing consensus that today’s economy is increasingly defined by the need for continuous learning. What hasn’t been worked out is who should bear the responsibility for this ongoing re-training—the employee or the employer, or so... |
| 09.07.2019 | What ‘Impact Investing’ Means in Education | “Impact investing” is a term that has become increasingly common—even trendy—in the education sector. Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support compani... |
| 24.06.2019 | Talent Analytics, Skills-Based Hiring and the Potential Disruption of the Degree | It’s commencement season, and a new crop of college grads is entering the workforce. At the same time, there’s also a flurry of articles about how a growing number of bule-chip employers no longer require a bachelor’s degree, raising the qu... |
| 06.06.2019 | ReUp Education Raises $6 Million Series A to Help College Dropouts Return | Sarah Horn wants to correct a myth about students who stop college before graduating.
Students don’t always leave college because they can’t handle the academic rigor. Often, she says, a life event usually interrupts their studies—starting ... |
| 24.04.2019 | Credly Raises $11.1M | Credly today announced $11.1 million in new funding, with investors ZOMA Capital and the nonprofit Strada Education Network joining existing investors New Markets Venture Partners, University Ventures, Pearson, Lumina Foundation, and Lion B... |
| 24.04.2019 | Lion Brothers Joins $11.1M Financing for Credly | Credly today announced $11.1 million in new funding, with investors ZOMA Capital and the nonprofit Strada Education Network joining existing investors New Markets Venture Partners, University Ventures, Pearson, Lumina Foundation, and Lion B... |
| 10.07.2018 | Should Gen-Ed Come Later? New Book Argues For Cheaper And Faster Alternatives to College | Debates about how to expand access to higher education often assume a one-size-fits-all model of what college should be. But new book due out this fall argues for the creation of colleges of many shapes and sizes, including a new set of low... |
| 07.05.2018 | ‘Talent’ Has Become the New Theme Uniting Education and Employment | The postsecondary education sector is on a collision course with the world of work.
Entrepreneurs and investors, government leaders, foundations and others are increasingly framing their goals around the concept of developing “talent”–or hu... |
| 05.10.2017 | More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products | If 2012 was “The Year of the MOOC”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.”
A growing number of elite colleges are offering short-form graduate and certificate programs that can ... |
| 20.02.2017 | Lumina Foundation Gives Odds For Edtech Innovation Under Trump | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 2/22/17, 9:35 am. See below.] Bipartisanship hasn’t exactly been the watchword in Washington over the past month as the new Trump administration grapples with stall... |
| 08.08.2016 | With $3.2M Series A, Viridis Aims to Connect Community College Students and Employers | “Community colleges are one of America’s best-kept secrets,” Jill Biden, who teaches English at Northern Virginia Community College, once remarked. These schools, she notes, are increasingly “forming partnerships with businesses in their co... |
| 07.06.2016 | Student Loan Debt Delays Startup Plans Of Potential Entrepreneurs | Catherine Cabral-Isabedra, Tech Times 07 June 2016, 08:06 am
The burden of paying student loans hinders the new graduates to start their own businesses.
From millions of students graduating and/or have graduated this year, those who are hop... |
| 18.04.2016 | $1B Lumina Foundation Backs New Education Credentials Framework | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Advocates of online education say it can provide learning opportunities as good as college coursework, but at a much lower cost. The broad offerings of edtech companies now ra... |
| 15.03.2016 | Edtech Startup Credly Raises $2.5M Seed Round From VCs, Lumina Foundation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Credly, a New York edtech company that manages digital credentials for learned skills, said today it raised $2.5 million in a seed financing round led by venture firms Univers... |
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