1. Request for Information Overview Webinar November 12, 2018
All Learning Counts Breaking Through to Create a Postsecondary Learning System for All Americans
Request for Information Overview Webinar November 12, 2018

2. Danette Howard, PhD
Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Haley Glover
Strategy Director
Amber Garrison Duncan, PhD
Strategy Director
Chad Ahren, PhD
Strategy Officer

3. To increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by the year 2025.

4. ~2% (3.3M) hold high-quality certifications as terminal credentials
Educational Attainment for the US 2016
Age 25-64
Attainment up 9 percentage points since 2008
46.9%
Current % of adults with post-secondary credentials
(2016)
~2% (3.3M) hold high-quality certifications as terminal credentials
Source: US Census, 2016 ACS, Lumina Foundation Stronger Nation 2018

5. Educational Attainment for the US 2016 Age 25-64
2012
2016
Asian and Pacific Islander 61.7%
59.4%
White 46.4%
43.9%
National Avg 41.7%
39.4%
African-American 30%
27.6%
23.4%
American Indian 24%
Hispanic 21.9%
19.8%
Source: US Census, 2016 ACS, Lumina Foundation Stronger Nation 2018

6. 90M people Who do we need to serve?
less than 9th grade
9th-12th, no diploma
high school graduate, including HSE
some college no credential
certificate
associate
bachelor’s
graduate/ professional degree
Among Hispanic/Latinx adults, there are more than 3 million fewer credential-holders than those without a high school diploma.
African-Americans represent more than 12 percent of the population, but only 9 percent of credentialed adults.
90M people
>40M employed without postsecondary credential or experience
23M unemployed or out of the labor force without postsecondary credential or experience
Median income <$30K/year
27.3M with some postsecondary experience
3.3M with a terminal industry certification
1.3M active duty military
Sources: US Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, Tables: B23006; B20004; B15002a-i

7. Many Adults Gain Competencies and Initial Credentials through Work, Military, and Workforce Training Organizations
Current State
Envisioned State
Non-Credentialed Adults
Non-Credentialed Adults
Postsecondary Learning System
Competency is Currency
All Learning Counts
All Sectors Mobilized
The Lucky Few are on a path to employment AND further education
Millions of adults have pathways to employment and further education, and credentials recognizing competencies

8. Request for Information
Lumina’s Objectives
Gain a better understanding of how postsecondary education providers recognize non-institutional learning toward further education
Elevate effective and innovative practices
Support efforts for scale

9. Request for Information: Primary Respondents
Colleges and Universities
Workforce Training Providers
State Systems
Employers and Employer-Supported Training Providers
Military
Partnerships and Consortia

10. Request for Information: Key considerations
How quality of learning is organized using frameworks, learning outcomes, and competencies
How readily the work can reach scale
Innovation that is evident in purposeful risks the provider has taken to recognize and apply learning toward credentials
Partnerships across providers that leverage respective strengths in service of better learner progress toward credential
Integration of related work to amplify recognition of learning
Incarcerated populations
Moving from non-credit to credit
Competency-based education
Business model reform

11. Timeline January 14, 2019 Responses due by 12:00 EST
February 20, Notification of planning awards and invitation to apply
June 21, Applications for Implementation due
July 30, Notification of Implementation grants

12. Questions?

13. Next Steps
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