{"id":18385,"date":"2022-06-29T06:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/?p=18385"},"modified":"2022-06-29T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:57:32","slug":"lumen-partners-with-howard-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/lumen-partners-with-howard-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumen Learning Partners with Howard University to Improve Educational Outcomes for Students of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collaboration aims to identify best practices and create courseware with the nation\u2019s leading historically Black research university to support students\u2019 academic excellence and eliminate race and income as predictors of student success.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Portland, Oregon \/ June 29, 2022 \u2013<\/span> Lumen Learning<\/span><\/a>, a leading provider of teaching and learning materials focused on improving student success, affordability, and access, today announced a partnership with <\/span>Howard University<\/span><\/a>\u2019s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Assessment (CETLA) to develop courseware to increase the effectiveness and cultural relevance of Lumen\u2019s solutions for Black students as well as Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income students across the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After successful previous engagements, Lumen Learning is partnering with Howard University in Washington, D.C. to learn from Howard\u2019s rich history of success supporting Black students. Howard is one of the nation\u2019s leading historically Black research universities and highly sought-after institutions for students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through this partnership, Howard\u2019s faculty and CETLA staff are providing information that will be crucial to Lumen Learning as it develops equity-centered learning solutions for its new statistics course and platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur partnership with Lumen Learning is helping to address learning experiences and environments for underrepresented students, with an intentional focus on students of color,\u201d says Morris Thomas, Ph.D., director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment. \u201cI am confident the insights we\u2019re learning in partnership with Lumen will provide direction for enhanced courseware design leading to more equitable outcomes for underserved students who are participating in gateway courses, such as Introduction to Statistics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To date, Lumen has gathered broad and varied feedback on its courseware development process through its partnership with Howard, from addressing actual courseware features and how faculty and students might use them, to discussing best practices for supporting faculty through the implementation of new teaching tools. Insights from faculty and CETLA staff on how to create inclusive and supportive student learning environments are informing the way Lumen designs specific features within the new platform. The collaboration with CETLA has helped Lumen understand how it can build features to share timely information about students\u2019 engagement within the course, simplifying the process of identifying students who may need additional support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so grateful for the opportunity to partner with the renowned faculty and staff at Howard University to create future courseware that will meet and exceed the educational needs for all students,\u201d says Kim Thanos, co-founder and CEO of Lumen Learning. \u201cHoward has long led the field in creating learning experiences that engage and empower Black students, with inspiring results. Having Howard\u2019s voice at the table is instrumental to guide our design processes, creating solutions that incorporate and build on Howard\u2019s expertise. This is central to our goal to improve outcomes for all students in key gateway courses, and to ultimately eliminate race and income as predictors of student success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have gained tremendous insights from our partnership with Howard that have been instrumental in helping us create courseware that will support unprecedented learning for all students,\u201d says David Wiley, Ph.D., co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning. \u201cWhen we collaborate with students and faculty, incorporating their input into our courseware from the very beginning of the design process, we dramatically increase the likelihood of creating something that will support success for both faculty and students.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lumen Learning was recently awarded a significant grant from the <\/span>Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<\/span><\/a> to support their work in creating and implementing new courseware for Introduction to Statistics that focuses specifically on eliminating race and income as predictors of success for students. Lumen has established partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions across the United States. Lumen Learning is working with Howard University\u2019s faculty and CETLA staff, who are providing guidance and direction for its statistics course and platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, Lumen Learning has partnered with Rockland Community College in New York and Santa Ana College in California to open student user testing centers on their campuses, allowing Lumen to gain valuable insights and work directly with their target student demographic in co-creating relevant courseware materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re interested in being part of the development or piloting process of the new Statistics course and\/or platform, please visit info.lumenlearning.com\/statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collaboration aims to identify best practices and create courseware with the nation\u2019s leading historically Black research university to support students\u2019 academic excellence and eliminate race and income as predictors of student success. Portland, Oregon \/ June 29, 2022 \u2013 Lumen Learning, a leading provider of teaching and learning materials focused on improving student success, affordability, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equity","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18388,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18385\/revisions\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}