Daily Lumina News 101022

Madera Community College officially became its own college in the summer of 2020, breaking off from its status as a satellite campus for Reedley College. The new designation means additional state funding, plus the ability to more freely decide how to expand programs, services, and staff.
Madera also will benefit from a game-changing $1 million grant to market to and enroll more adult learners, as well as bring a sense of belonging to the campus and the mainly Latino population it serves.

The University of Florida’s announcement of Sen. Benjamin E. Sasse as the sole finalist for its presidency elicited reactions that spanned from sunny faculty quotes in a news release to downright alarm about the direction of an embattled university.
Sasse, a second-term Nebraska Republican, is poised to take the job at a crucial moment for the state flagship, which has in recent months been plagued by academic-freedom concerns.

Leo Medina was working an overnight shift at a Dallas hospital when the news hit him: A federal appeals court in New Orleans had struck a severe blow to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
As conservative administrations and states continue to attack the program, DACA recipients live in a constant state of siege. Many recipients have started families of their own and their fear extends to their spouses and children.

As an associate professor of economics, Kameshwari Shankar knows that one of the most important requirements of scientific research is often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic happened, creating a massive expansion of online higher education and a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.

A new PSA campaign aims to create a cultural shift for job seekers without a bachelor's degree, demonstrating to employers the value of hiring talent based on skills, not degrees; performance, not pedigree; and inclusion, not exclusion.
The effort, from Opportunity@Work, is already seeing traction: Fifteen companies have signed on to make a commitment to ease pathways for candidates without a four-year degree.

Coming from a high school in Aurora, Colorado, that was 60 percent to 70 percent Latino, Carlos Granillo figured he’d find a good number of Latinos on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. That didn’t happen.
CU Boulder has one of the nation’s widest gaps between undergraduate Latinos enrolling in college for the first time and the state’s share of Latino high school graduates.