Daily Lumina News 031022

Reinvention, redemption, rebirth. College promises disadvantaged students such things but offers them no guarantees. Why some succeed and others fail might seem like a question of who has the goods—intelligence, say, or grit—and who doesn’t.
But that’s not the truth. Just ask Frederick Shegog.

Thousands of colleges and universities across the country are using financial help from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund to keep students enrolled and on track to graduate.
A new report offers a state-by-state breakdown into how institutions are applying the one-time infusion of funding to benefit students.

When students apply to a four-year college or university directly from high school, they know they want to earn at least a bachelor’s degree. Not all students who enroll in community colleges have the same clarity about their future.
A new program aims to help by making it easier to transfer credits and otherwise ease the transition for students who want to earn a four-year degree.

Chris Gabrieli is the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. Like many higher ed leaders, he worries about the growing declines in college enrollment and what it means for the future.
On this podcast, Gabrieli talks about the latest enrollment shifts and what can be done to change course.

Many of the nation's largest employers are changing how they offer training and education benefits to their employees.
Business leaders and education providers met up this week at the SXSW EDU conference in Austin to highlight the trends they’re seeing in workplace learning.

Nineteen-year-old Marta Hulievska is a freshman at Dartmouth College. She came to the United States from Ukraine last year through an organization that helps students from low-income families attend top-tier universities around the world.
Hulievska is among more than 1,700 international students from Ukraine living in the United States. Many of these students are now struggling to balance their studies with painful images from home.