Daily Lumina News 102722

It's not every day that someone goes from a college conference championship team to a top executive at Goldman Sachs to the first Black president in Temple University's 137-year history. But that describes Jason Wingard.
On this podcast, Wingard talks about the road less traveled to a university presidency, why college degrees are being devalued, and how higher education must pivot to align with workforce needs.

Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But higher education isn’t the only provider of communal uplift. Broadband use—inclusive broadband use—is a way for communities to prosper.
That’s why some education and equity experts want to see colleges coordinate with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to disperse the roughly $48 billion allotted toward programs that create greater digital equity.

Many historically Black colleges and universities grew out of a “separate but equal” approach to educating Black people, but the promise of equality in funding often hasn’t been honored.
The Biden administration, and previous others, have spoken to the importance of HBCUs. But students and their families need more than observances.

The strong late-pandemic labor market is giving a lift to a group often left on the margins of the economy: workers with disabilities.
Companies’ newfound openness to remote work has led to opportunities for people whose disabilities make in-person work—and the taxing daily commute it requires—difficult or impossible.

In the United States, more women are working for themselves. On the surface, it seems empowering—but there’s a dark narrative driving this rise in self-employment.
In the wake of the pandemic and the midst of an ongoing childcare crisis, women—especially mothers—are being pushed out, seeing self-employment as less a desire than a necessity.

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has faced accusations of mismanagement for over a decade, resulting in forgiveness for only a small portion of qualifying borrowers.
Some borrowers describe PSLF as full of trap doors. If you walk through the wrong one, you're out of luck. The U.S. Department of Education is now permanently removing several of those trap doors.