Daily Lumina News 090321

The pandemic has taken a crippling toll on the healthcare workforce, with nearly 30 percent of nurses, doctors, and allied professionals expected to leave their profession within the next year.
Daniel Bustillo of the Healthcare Career Advancement Program thinks that number might go even higher. On this podcast, Bustillo discusses why we must reimagine what it means to be a caregiving workforce—and invest in efforts that tout equity, education, and innovation.

The career services office at most universities is good at helping with professional resumes and doing many other things to prepare students for careers after college. But most of these offices don’t have nearly enough staff members to serve all of the students and alumni who seek their advice.
Some institutions are trying a new approach to extend the reach of their career services: They’re working with faculty willing to incorporate professional development efforts into their classes, and they’re paying professors who agree to take part.

The demands of today’s learners are rapidly changing, and college and universities have an opportunity to adapt and innovate to meet these challenges.
In this interview, Wade Dyke of the American Public University System talks about the importance of stackable credentials and how the right support systems and programming can help address both learner and industry needs.

New York’s universities were among some of the first institutions in the nation to issue vaccination mandates, some as far back as in the spring. At the time, it was unclear how the general public would respond to such orders.
Now, as many colleges across the state begin classes this week in the midst of an uptick in COVID cases, schools are noticing a surprising trend: compliance.

Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks. They want to know what would happen if students had access to a catalog of free and culturally relevant textbooks.
Six Massachusetts colleges and universities, alongside the state’s Department of Higher Education, are now testing that hypothesis and whether it can improve student performance.

It’s been almost 18 months since the onset of the pandemic—and millions of job seekers continue to look for their places in the workforce.
In a recent Twitter chat, education, business, philanthropic, corporate, and workforce development leaders got together to share solutions around how to help workers move forward. Many of their innovative ideas can be found here.