Daily Lumina News 041122

It used to be called the Rust Belt. Now, Illinois is going green.
The demand for green jobs is on the uptick in Illinois, with colleges, businesses, and policymakers joining forces to create green career pathways for residents around the state.

A newly created network of Historically Black Community Colleges and Predominantly Black Community Colleges is taking a collaborative approach to college completion.
In this interview, creators of the PBCC-HBCC Network discuss the project's purpose and the work that will take place to align academic programs for adult learners of color with workforce needs.

Culture makes a country, but so do scholarly contributions.
Members of the global higher education community are continuing to help scholars who left Ukraine following Russia's invasion six weeks ago. In some cases, the support is creating better institutional processes to help students and scholars from Ukraine and other conflict zones like Afghanistan and Yemen.

Aljanal Carroll's experience at Walden University reflects what a class-action lawsuit alleges is an insidious scheme by the school to lure and then trap students, especially those who are Black and female, in a cycle of debt and despair.
Some observers say the lawsuit could provide a road map for holding for-profit institutions responsible for targeting vulnerable populations.

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, is seeing a record number of students apply to be part of the fall freshman class.
But this year, those record numbers hide a troubling trend among a different group of students: Fewer transfer students from community colleges applied to the Pomona university and to all CSU campuses across the state.

The pandemic has led college admissions offices across the country to waive standardized testing requirements.
That change—perhaps one of the most significant shakeups in college admissions—is now considered a large-scale experiment, with high stakes for both colleges and their prospective students.