Daily Lumina News 041624

According to mental health advocates, many colleges and universities lack comprehensive policies for responding to students with mental health issues or do so in discriminatory or punitive ways. That includes forcing them to leave school or evicting them from college or university housing.
Durmerrick Ross understands this reality all too well.

It's been a tough journey for 28-year-old student-parent Katherine Reyes to find reliable and affordable child care for her young son, Liam. Reyes is a single mother and a radiology student at Bronx Community College.
The school is working to reverse the hardships that student-parents like Reyes face with a host of support services, including the opening of a brand-new infant-toddler program.

After months of decrying the Biden administration’s handling of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid and pledging to hold someone accountable, Republicans in Congress have begun to focus their ire on one man: Richard Cordray, who leads the agency that oversees the application.
How did Cordray become the conservatives’ culprit of choice?

Research shows most community college students aspire to earn a bachelor’s degree, but only about a third transfer to a university. The numbers are even more dismal for students who’ve been historically underrepresented.
What kind of guidance these students receive can often be critical to whether or not they transfer and graduate. Just ask Marilyn Martinez.

Goddard College administrators did everything they could think of to increase revenue and lower costs. They rented out building after building on campus. Turned the dining hall into a for-profit restaurant. Announced the institution would go virtual full time, with no students on its campus.
It didn’t work. And for a multitude of reasons.

At the University of Tennessee, the campus diversity, equity, and inclusion program is now called the Division of Access and Engagement. The University of Oklahoma has rebranded its diversity office as the Division of Access and Opportunity.
In what appears to be an effort to placate opponents of diversity and equity programs, university officials are relaunching their DEI offices under different names, changing the titles of officials, and rewriting requirements to eliminate words like “diversity” and “equity.” In some cases, only the words have changed.