Daily Lumina News 070622

Claudia Diaz will tell you that going to college changed her life. The Dinuba High School alum played soccer at University of California, Merced, traveled to Mexico and Spain to train with professional teams, and graduated in four years.
Now a new program will make it easier for other students to follow in her footsteps to UC Merced.

Fewer students are getting the information they need to find the right college for them, contend the CEOs of the National College Attainment Network and ACT.
Because the road to higher education begins long before students start applying to colleges, these leaders believe that the silos separating K-12, higher education, and the workforce must be permanently dismantled.

For much of his life, Ryan Moser has felt like an ‘invisible’ student. That perception changed in the most unlikely of places: prison, where he became a teacher's aide while serving eight years for theft.
In this essay, Moser describes the power of education to alter not only his future path but also that of others.

It’s still too soon to determine to what extent the COVID-19–era Great Resignation has affected higher education faculty: There’s no national survey to reflect current faculty departures or the reasons behind them.
But stories about who is leaving, and why, abound. Will institutions be forced to respond with real change?