Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
As colleges confront what many are calling a crisis in student mental health, peer-support programs offer the potential to both lighten the load on campus counselors and to reach students who, for various reasons, might never seek their support.
Peer-support programs can be expensive and risky, but many students demand them. Supporters say the work is rewarding and helps prepare them for graduate programs in psychology and social work.
Bedridden. It may not be a common word in daily conversations, but it's important to know if you’re going to work in the nursing field. Through classes at Community College of Denver, Japanese immigrant and English-learner Naoko Fujiwara, 38, is learning almost 10 to 20 such words a day.
The school has revamped its English as a Second Language program for students. Instead of teaching academic English, the program connects language to jobs and careers.
Accounting giant Deloitte announced this week that it will pay for community college students to spend two years finishing their bachelor’s degrees—if they commit to work at the firm for at least two years.
Deloitte’s move is part of a larger project that reimagines how companies can hire more diverse—and loyal—entry-level workers. Corporations often pay staffing firms $25K or more to replace each employee in high-turnover fields, and the new project will redirect those dollars to a college degree completion program.
