States must increase the number of college degrees awarded each year in the United States, every year, by a total of nearly 280,000 if the nation is to meet the Lumina Foundation for Education's goal of increasing the proportion of American adults with a college degree to 60 percent by 2025.
In a new report, "A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education: How and Why Americans Must Achieve a 'Big Goal' for College Attainment," which the foundation is scheduled to release today, Lumina officials called their own goal "realistic and attainable." The foundation cited increased attention at the federal, state, and institutional levels to raising college-completion rates—including proposals in several states to base higher-education spending decisions on performance—as promising developments for Lumina's efforts to significantly improve educational attainment.
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Author: Sara Hebel
