Daily Lumina News 081021

On Cesar Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles, six women are doing a morning workout in a yard. They're wearing jeans, long-sleeve shirts, and work boots as they perform squats and curl 30-pound cinder blocks.
The workout is part of a free training program sponsored by Women In Non Traditional Employment Roles, or WINTER, which gets women—many from low-income and underrepresented communities—ready for apprenticeships to become carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and other skilled tradespeople.

When offices finally reopen, some companies plan to use them in a very different way than they did before the pandemic, giving workers the choice to come in just a few days a week, or not at all.
But even as the hybrid workplace reduces some longstanding barriers, it might introduce another type of inequality. Bias against remote workers could become a new obstacle to making workplaces more diverse and inclusive, say management experts and corporate executives themselves.

The latest installment of higher ed funding being distributed this summer via the American Rescue Plan provides a lot more flexibility in how officials use the money. Many institutions in Ohio—like others across the country—are using the funds to essentially reimburse themselves for lost tuition revenue in order to maintain existing operations.
But at least one institution in the state, Cuyahoga Community College, is taking a different approach—focusing primarily on increasing support for its largely working adult students and trying to make it easier for others to come back to college.

For too long, higher education has pursued a one-size-fits-all approach that fails to adequately cater to the highly individualized needs of today's learners.
In this op-ed, Scott Pulsipher of Western Governors University and Ryan Stowers of the Charles Koch Foundation discuss how focusing on the individual student—not the institution—will lead to the golden age of higher education in which all learners can discover and develop their innate gifts and aptitudes.