Daily Lumina News 020322

When students lose credits during transfer from a community college to a four-year institution, they also lose time and money.
A new report from Ithaka S+R explores how a credit transfer project at the City University of New York (CUNY) is helping more students reach the degree finish line.

For college students whose childhoods included one or more major traumas—living with food insecurity or witnessing violence near home—it’s easy to see higher education as a privileged space that doesn’t care about what they’ve endured in life.
But when an invitation to share is built into campus life, students are more likely to feel honored and understood.

It’s popular these days to argue that a pandemic boost of online education will lead to a wave of college closures.
But that kind of rhetoric irks Clay Shirky, vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing today's culture. He thinks the situation is far more complicated than many pundits let on.

Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education joins the dotEDU podcast to discuss what Congress still needs to finish from 2021 (is Build Back Better really dead?), plus how the 2022 midterms could impact higher education policy.
Hartle also weighs in on what’s at stake in the Supreme Court’s decision to hear cases against the race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities have been underfunded for decades. In April 2021, a joint legislative committee concluded that Tennessee State University had been shortchanged by as much as half a billion dollars in state funding since 1957.
Now, Tennessee’s governor is taking the first steps to rectify those longstanding funding inequities. If his funding request is approved, it will bring the largest infusion of state money in the university’s 110-year history.

In Pennsylvania, green jobs are on the rise. And construction managers are key players in Pennsylvania's green talent pool, with many earning an annual salary of $100,000.
You can learn about the skills and training needed to become a construction manager in this video, which is part of an ongoing series about promising career paths for early-career workers of all education levels.