Lumina Foundation's Stronger Nation tool serves as an invaluable resource to help individuals, communities, and states drive change when it comes to educational attainment.

Whether it’s comparing communities, identifying underserved groups, or charting a course toward equity, this interactive tool illuminates areas of success and opportunities for improvement. Explore the Stronger Nation website to learn more.

A growing body of research shows that student persistence and college completion are strongly connected to and determined by whether students’ basic needs are being met. But college administrators are hamstrung by insufficient funding to fully address basic needs insecurity on their campuses and help students in a comprehensive way.

Could using pre-existing data from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to identify students who qualify for public assistance programs be a solution? A new study says yes.

Rural community colleges play an important but underrecognized role in expanding access to quality education and workforce training in regions that need them the most. They advance equity, often serve as the largest employer in a rural county, and support economic development.

At the same time, they also suffer from underinvestment and a lack of resources compared to colleges in urban regions. Now, an influx of federal funding could create new opportunities for rural community colleges to build up their grant development process and capacity.