Daily Lumina News 052722

The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer this week in 2020 galvanized America, provoking a racial reckoning that extended to the nation’s campuses.
Two years later, how are institutions of higher learning remembering George Floyd? And are they living up to the promises made in his name?

With questions of when and what President Biden’s final decision on debt relief will be still largely in the air, higher education leaders have been provided little information on how to prepare for what could be one of the largest shifts in federal policy for higher education in decades.

Veterans who are transitioning to civilian life can now claim more military experience and training as college credit in California thanks to an effort called the Military Articulation Platform, or MAP.
The program works alongside the American Council on Education military guide to “interpret” military training and occupations, expanding the likelihood of veterans getting credit toward a degree at certain postsecondary institutions.

Denni Fealy wanted to go to college far away from her small town of Palouse, Washington, where she and all her friends grew up within a four-block radius and pedaled their bikes everywhere.
Fealy believed she could unlock the gates of otherwise unaffordable colleges with help from the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Everything seemed to be coming together. Then the unexpected happened.

The ongoing enrollment crisis at U.S. colleges and universities deepened in spring 2022, raising concerns that a fundamental shift is taking place in attitudes toward the value of a college degree—even as the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted operations for higher education.

As inflation continues to spike, policymakers are turning their attention to one of its least-talked-about causes: lagging workforce development.
For years, the United States has spent far less on training its workers and done so much less effectively than most other wealthy nations, which is contributing to the supply chain woes caused by the pandemic.