Lumina Announces Grants to Give Adults a ‘Second Chance’ at a Degree

The Lumina Foundation for Education today announced grants to support 19 projects that seek to provide a “second chance” at earning a degree for adults who have attended college but did not complete their programs. Lumina plans to provide a total of $14.8-million over four years to the efforts, which include a previously announced project with the Institute for Higher Education Policy that plans to track down former college students whose academic records qualify them to be awarded associate degrees retroactively as well as former students who fell just short of an associate degree, by nine or fewer credits, and re-enroll them.