Daily Lumina News 031422

When the pandemic showed no signs of abating in 2021, young people across the country found themselves dealing with isolation and altered dreams—and unclear what their futures would be like.
Two college students crisscrossed 23 states and interviewed more than 80 young people suspended in that transitional time between adolescence and adulthood. This is what they had to say.

The path to a stable future might just come with a work ID, safety glasses, and a set of new skills.
Four women are getting a chance to re-shape their lives after incarceration thanks to a first-of-its-kind career-training program from a manufacturer in Connecticut.

What does the 'Great Resignation' mean for community colleges?
Ragan Decker of the Society for Human Resource Management outlines the reasons and implications of why so many employees are calling it quits—and where community colleges fit into the picture.

Heavy teaching loads and limited or no resources to attend conferences, subscribe to journals, or join associations are the most common reasons why two-year faculty members aren’t more involved with their disciplinary groups.
In this interview, community-college faculty members share strategies for staying connected to their discipline.

The pandemic-fueled push to remote work gave many Americans more flexibility and a reprieve from office politics.
It also confirmed that the office was never one size fits all. It was one size fits some, with the expectation that everybody else would squeeze in.

Amid the extraordinary challenges of the pandemic, teachers have been innovative, flexible, and brave. They've also been pushed to their limits—leading to concerns about burnout and a large-scale exodus from the teaching profession.
This episode of Education Now explores the strains facing today's teachers and what can be done to address and fix the underlying causes.