Daily Lumina News 060920

Many higher education leaders are calling for change in response to the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, but thus far few have shared ideas on how to enact it. Observers want them to do more to address inequities on campus and in wider society.

With the unofficial start of summer, all eyes are on if and when colleges and universities will welcome students back to campus this fall. Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education discusses what higher education institutions need to support reopening and how Congress can help.

For students with children, college often includes juggling academic responsibilities with parenting and scraping by just to afford rent without much, or any, support from their schools.
As colleges look to help their student populations navigate COVID-19 changes, policy advocates and others say more must be done to ensure student-parents succeed.

In April, Jaime Waldron was a homeless college student worried about completing her online studies before graduation. Now, Waldron has officially graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in criminal justice. In this interview, she talks about her hopes for the future in the face of COVID-19.