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Foundational Reading
Foundational Reading
Check out some of the lab's favorite resources below. For a more complete library, head over to Lumina Foundation.
After closely tracking the progress of the 2024-2025 Great Admissions Redesign grantee cohort, Lumina Foundation and Education Strategy Group captured key lessons learned in this 2025 report.
This toolkit from Research for Action provides resources for policymakers and postsecondary practitioners working to adopt or strengthen admissions redesign at the state/system level.
This resource from Data Quality Campaign examines the role of stronger data systems in admissions redesign, highlighting best practices that emerging in the field.
Great Admissions Redesign Convening - May 2026
Great Admissions Redesign Convening - May 2026
To formally launch the second cohort of the Great Admissions Redesign, grantees and field network members gathered in Dallas, TX in May 2026. Plenary sessions anchored on two foundational exercises at the heart of admissions redesign: Process mapping and logic modeling. You can review resources from the convening below.
Process Mapping
Process Mapping
ideas42 is a nonprofit, behavioral science research organization dedicated to solving the world’s most complex social challenges by uncovering key drivers of human behavior. In a plenary session at the 2026 GAR convening, ideas42 led participants through a process mapping exercise. Process mapping helps us see systems the way that students actually experience them – and elevate the most urgent pain points for redesign. Review session materials:
Logic Modeling
Logic Modeling
Research for Action (RFA) is a research services organization that partners with education change agents to catalyze the advancement of a just education system. From 2024-2025, RFA served as a key evaluation partner for the first cohort of Great Admissions Redesign grantees. In a plenary session at the 2026 convening, RFA shared tools and templates for building flexible, living logic models for high-impact redesign. Review session materials:
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