Daily Lumina News 032823

During college, Miguel Agyei took a job answering phones five days a week for a call center. To pay his rent and other expenses, he sought help from an advocacy group. Meanwhile, his tuition at Bradley University kept increasing.
Nearly 700 universities and colleges have raised the prices paid by their lowest-income students, after discounts and financial aid, more than the prices paid by their highest-income ones. For already cash-strapped students, the increase can be devastating.

A new database developed through a collaboration between Ithaka S+R and the City University of New York enables prospective and current transfer students to determine whether and how their credits will apply to a degree at any school in the CUNY system.
In this interview, Ithaka's Pooja Patel highlights the importance of adapting transfer systems for today's learners and the need for more transparency in the process.

California has struggled for years to recruit aspiring physicians of color into its health care workforce, despite the state’s highly diverse population.
Now, a new state-funded program is trying to address both the physician shortage and diversity gap by propelling community college students into medical school.

The modern learner demographic is changing, and all institutions are having to shift their traditional processes and strategies—including liberal arts colleges.
Lumina Foundation's Debra Humphreys discusses the evolution of liberal arts colleges in recent years, the challenges that still linger, and what higher ed leaders must do to better communicate the value of a liberal arts education.

Since the release of ChatGPT, educators have become increasingly concerned about students using the technology to write their essays for them. Companies are now rushing to create tools that they say can help detect when text is written by a bot.
But will these tools work? And even if they do at first, will this approach continue to be effective as AI gets more sophisticated? Educators and technology experts weigh in.

The century-old practice of legacy admissions, which overwhelming benefits white and wealthy students, is coming under heightened criticism as the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised this year to bar the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
Supporters of ending legacy preferences believe that case is giving their cause new momentum.