The Lumina Foundation is awarding grants to 20 community colleges in eight states to help them increase adult student enrollment.
The Prioritizing Adult Community College Enrollment (PACCE) grants are worth $75,000 each and are designed to scale up promising strategies for increasing the enrollment of adult students — particularly Black, Latino, and Native American students — in high-quality credit and/or non-credit programs. The project is scheduled to run from October 2021 through May 2023.
Lumina will work with several partner organizations, including Achieving the Dream, Ideas 42, RPK Group, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to provide technical assistance to the recipient schools, helping them develop new enrollment and re-enrollment strategies and disseminate those approaches that prove most successful.