The percentage of American adults with a college degree grew 0.7 percent from 2011 to 2012, according to a report on college attainment released on Tuesday by the Lumina Foundation. That small increase means the nation is already behind on the foundation’s goal of 60-percent attainment by 2025.
This is Lumina’s fifth annual report, titled "A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education," to include national and state-by-state figures on college attainment. The report says 39.4 percent of U.S. residents age 25 to 64 held some form of postsecondary education credential in 2012.
While this year’s report shows an improvement from the previous year, the figure is nearly two percentage points less than what the foundation plotted as a benchmark for this point two years ago.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/College-Attainment-Rises-but/146133