February 2013 - PESC
February 2013 - PESC
February 2013 - PESC
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2/6/<strong>2013</strong><br />
Michael Sessa<br />
From: LuciaAnderson[l anderson@l uminafoundation.org] Sent: Fri1/11/<strong>2013</strong>15:09<br />
To:<br />
Michael Sessa<br />
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Subject: LuminaStrategicPl an<strong>2013</strong>-2016<br />
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January 11, <strong>2013</strong><br />
Lumina Strategic Plan <strong>2013</strong>-2016<br />
In 2009, Lumina Foundation released its first four-year strategic<br />
plan. That plan was based on achieving Goal 2025 –a national<br />
endeavor to increase the percentage of Americans with highquality<br />
degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by<br />
the year 2025. Progress toward that Goal is increasing, but the<br />
pace of attainment must improve.<br />
In order to reach Goal 2025, the nation must produce 62 million<br />
high-quality degrees and credentials over the next 12 years. At<br />
current rates, we will fall 23 million degrees and credentials short.<br />
To close that gap, we must expand access and success in education beyond high<br />
school, particularly among low-income and first-generation students, racial and<br />
ethnic minorities, immigrants, veterans, and adults with some college, but no degree.<br />
That’s why Lumina has unveiled its new Strategic Plan covering <strong>2013</strong>-2016. The<br />
Plan reflects key lessons learned over the last four years and includes compelling<br />
new strategies.<br />
The Plan includes strategies designed to help mobilize the nation around Goal 2025.<br />
These strategies focus on engagement with employers, higher education institutions<br />
and systems, state and federal policymakers, and a variety of key stakeholders.<br />
The Plan also includes strategies geared toward building a 21st Century higher<br />
education system. Those strategies focus on creating: new higher education<br />
business models; new models of student financial support, and a new national<br />
system of credentials and credits that is based on learning and competencies rather<br />
than time.<br />
As the nation’s largest private foundation focused exclusively on getting more<br />
Americans into and through higher education, Lumina hopes to drive a national<br />
sense of urgency so as to stimulate action in higher education and public policy to<br />
achieve Goal 2025.<br />
We need significantly more skilled workers to help grow the economy and create<br />
jobs for the future. Increasing the nation's postsecondary attainment is the solution.
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