MILLERSVILLE, Pa.—The kale Caesar salad is a hit at The Pressroom in nearby Lancaster. Daniel Castellanos, a prep cook at the restaurant, says the secret’s in the dressing. He describes it, speaking ...

The way policymakers define college affordability differs from how students and families actually experience it. Policy tends to factor in only the tuition price. But a scholarship that covers tuition ...

The HEA Reauthorization of 1986 added provisions prohibiting students in default under GSL from receiving new federal loans. It also gave the Department of Education more power to regulate student ...

Frank Swanzy Essien Jr., Ph.D. served as a Lumina research strategy officer from 2016 to 2025. In his time at the foundation, Essien synthesized existing research and commissioned new research on ...

Steve Giegerich is a freelance writer based in New York City. Giegerich, a journalist with decades of experience, has authored more than a dozen issues of Focus magazine since 2005. He has worked as a ...

Jamaal Abdul-Alim, also known as Professor J, is a veteran journalist whose articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Washington Monthly and Education Week, to name a few. He broke into the news ...

Despite skills-based hiring shifts and the rise of AI, employers still value college degrees. For years, the future of work ...

Suzette Brewer is a journalist specializing in federal Indian law and social justice, with a focus on issues affecting Native women and children. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, National ...

We fund editorially independent news coverage to heighten public awareness and understanding of how colleges and universities must evolve to better serve today’s college students. At Lumina, we work ...

Back Education has numerous beneficial effects, and many of these have been documented in academic literature. But research articles typically carefully examine just one effect. This report provides a ...

Despite declining enrollment at many U.S. higher ed institutions, nearly three-fourths of all adults say a college degree is as important as (35 percent) or more important (39 percent) than it was 20 ...