Top stories in higher ed for Tuesday
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| Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
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Illustration: The ChronicleTransfer-Student Enrollment Tanked During the Pandemic. Historically Black Colleges Were the Exception. Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • Twitter Transfer rates to Historically Black Colleges and Universities rebounded last year, jumping nearly 8 percent after an 11 percent drop the previous academic year. That finding, released in a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, is a glimmer of good news in an otherwise gloomy assessment of transfer enrollment among colleges nationwide. |
How Student Debt Has Contributed to ‘Delayed’ Adulthood Nancy E. Hill and Alexis Redding, The Atlantic SHARE: Facebook • Twitter The irony of attending college in the United States is that the burden of paying for it can prevent it from serving its purpose of launching young adults into stable, fulfilling lives, write two higher ed veterans in this commentary. Forgiving student-loan debt cannot erase the trade-offs that so many young people have had to make along the way, they go on to say, but it can take many dreams and milestones off the back burner moving forward. |
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| The Mindset List Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • Twitter The Class of 2026 is the first cohort in recent memory for whom knowledge about a diverse country and world is actually regressing. That's according to the latest mindset list released by Marist College. The list is designed to help those in academe adjust their perspective to that of new freshmen. |
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How One Nonprofit Is Looking Beyond ‘Generic Tools’ to Help HBCUs Boost Retention Rick Seltzer, Higher Ed Dive SHARE: Facebook • Twitter The Partnership for Education Advancement is working to connect Historically Black Colleges and Universities with technology companies as a way to help them access specially tailored services like artificial intelligence to boost recruitment and retention. In this interview, Ed Advancement's CEO—a former Federal Student Aid chief operating officer at the U.S. Department of Education—explains his group's mission to create a network effect where a single HBCU’s success yields collective benefits for many. |
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