Daily Lumina News 050422

HOPE Toledo is one of a handful of recent admissions initiatives and scholarships launched nationally designed to bring students and their family members to college in hopes of improving college completion rates and lifting whole families out of poverty.
Leaders of these efforts hope this multigenerational approach to college access is the start of a new trend in higher ed.

State-level networks across the country are leading efforts to make their state’s education and workforce systems better and more effective.
Leaders of three networks in Michigan, Alabama, and Missouri discuss how they are working to build trust, advance postsecondary policy and practice, and improve equitable outcomes for students in their home states.

Student loan forgiveness is politically popular in some corners. But it's also an action that does nothing to solve the actual problem of why student debt is so high in the first place.
Josh Mitchell, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, and Beth Akers of the American Enterprise Institute weigh in on what, if anything, the federal government—both a holder and backer of this mountain of debt—can proactively do to solve the student loan debt crisis.

The University of California is the latest public land grant university system to waive tuition for some Native American students.
While some say the decision is a first step in acknowledging historical wrongs suffered by Indigenous people, many are pushing colleges and universities to do more for their Indigenous students. That includes providing support services, mentorship programs, and financial assistance for housing and other basic needs.

At the University of Miami, a new position carries the chief-executive label but will report to the president. So far, reviews are mixed.
Having a separate president and CEO is unusual—possibly unique—in higher education, experts say. Others are focused on the details of the Miami announcement: What exactly will the president and CEO do, and how will their responsibilities differ?

New state laws that aim to limit instructors from teaching so-called “divisive concepts” around race and sexuality could alter where certain professors choose to live and work.
Several faculty members in states with these new laws speak out on how this new reality is changing recruitment and retention.