Daily Lumina News 021622

Michelle Pérez credits her grandparents—who still farm in Fresno County—for inspiring her to seek a bachelor’s degree in agriculture.
Today, Pérez is an undergraduate student recruitment counselor for the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at Fresno State. She represents a new wave of children and grandchildren of farmworkers returning to the fields in far different capacities than picking crops.

The last two years of the pandemic, which prompted unprecedented transitions to remote work and schooling, have been checkered with cyberattacks against American colleges.
It turns out that one of the most important elements for preventing those attacks has been here all along: people.

Latino students in San Antonio face a number of challenges in their pursuit of an education beyond high school, from paying tuition to simply putting food on the table.
This episode of The Enduring Gap explores how families can help students get to college—and why the needs of family members often take precedence over earning a degree.

Morgan State University is rolling out a new system to give students a digital transcript of everything from the courses they’ve taken to involvement in community programs.
It’s just one example of the growth of digital credential systems that leaders say will help build a better bridge between industry and academia—and may change some of the ways higher education works.

Health-care benefits have emerged as a battleground for adjunct instructors, who are critical to California’s community colleges and their mission to educate about 1.5 million of the state’s most vulnerable students.
Adjuncts at 39 districts get some health benefits, while 33 districts provide none. That could soon change.

Colleges that serve students poorly shouldn’t be able to continue operating with impunity, and there is a system in place to make sure they don’t: accreditation.
But there is a gap right now between how accreditation should work in theory and how it works in practice, writes Michael Itzkowitz
of Third Way in this essay.