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Measures progress toward Lumina Foundation's goal to increase the percentage of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60% by the year 2025. Includes completion rates for individual states and for the 100 largest metropolitan areas. Suggests steps to reach the 2025 goal. (Lumina Foundation for Education, March 2012)

Paper developed for the National Productivity Conference hosted by the Lumina Foundation. The paper outlines their new state strategy lab model for how states can increase postsecondary productivity in a time of limited resources

Focuses on four areas where states can drive a more productive higher education system to improve degree completion while maintaining quality. The four steps include: Performance funding, student incentives, new models and business efficiencies. (Lumina Foundation for Education, August 2011)

New initiative funded by Gates and Lumina to work at the state policy level to increase college completion rates.

The Lumina Foundation for Education's Initiative to increase the productivity of postsecondary education by developing policies and strategies that result in higher college completion rates at lower costs to taxpayers, students and institutions.

Piece from Jamie Merisotis of the Lumina Foundation and Stan Jones from Complete College America on creating and developing cohort based, time constrained degrees.

Report from Excelencia in Education on increasing college completion. It is the cornerstone of a new project with support from the Lumina and Gates Foundation.

To try to provide a shared understanding of what college degrees mean - but without turning that into a government or other mandate - the Lumina Foundation for Education is releasing a draft of its Degree Qualifications Profile. The profile is intended to establish what the recipients of associate, bachelor's and master's degrees should know and be able to do. (Inside Higher Ed, 01/25/11)

The profile is a framework for defining and ultimately measuring the general knowledge and skills that individual students need to acquire in order to earn degrees at various levels, such as associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. (Lumina Foundation for Education, January 2011)

Piece on forum sponsored by New America Foundation featuring Stan Jones and Jamie Merisotis on developed cohort based, workforce aligned certificate programs.

Web site featuring resources on how states and postsecondary systems can increase postsecondary productivity

Piece by Jamie Merisotis countering the argument that college is not necessary.

Follow up on story in Washington Monthly in Spring, 2010 on the development of accelerated learning programs in higher education. The story explains how the U.S. Department of Labor has put acceleration as a priority for funding in the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Communities programs.

Story on proposals to fund higher education in West VA through a performance-based funding model.

Jamie Merisotis remarks on college completion in Connecticut