Daily Lumina News 103023

Cape Fear Community College is the fifth-largest community college in North Carolina. Hands-on experiences and a focus on short-term workforce training options in high-demand fields get students excited about learning—and inspire them for the future.
Learn more about what Cape Fear Community College is doing to empower students for life-long success in this special video series on the important work of community colleges nationwide.

As an adjunct faculty member at a Canadian university, Raad Jassim has four teaching assistants to help him grade assignments and answer questions. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term. He also has a multiyear contract and can typically pick the subjects that he teaches. Plus, he gets an office, along with access to professional training and government-provided health insurance.
Such benefits and working conditions are a rarity for adjunct professors in the United States—and that can be detrimental to student success, according to this new international study.

A recently released report on Michigan State University’s response to a deadly campus shooter last February glossed over or did not address mistakes or shortcomings by university personnel in the chaos that evening.
It turns out, the university did not directly ask the Ohio firm handling the review to chronicle what went wrong.

In 2021, Arizona became the 25th state to allow community colleges to confer bachelor’s degrees. As of today, 15 such programs are on their way to launching in the Grand Canyon State.
Most will be housed in large, urban community colleges, but rural-serving colleges are also building bachelor’s programs tailored to their community’s needs. In this interview, two leaders of rural community colleges in Arizona discuss what the process has been like for them and what’s on the horizon.

Etelin Tapi, who was born in Mexico and brought to the United States as a baby, is now an undocumented student at Colorado College. Her academic journey has not been easy. Today, she is most concerned about the ongoing assault to immigration rights.
Tapi exemplifies the persistence and determination that leaders of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities say define students who are working every day to earn a college education, often at Hispanic Serving Institutions.

The benefits of a new income-driven repayment plan for federal student loans are largest for those who used the loans to pay for undergraduate degrees, especially certificates and associate degrees, according to a recent report by the Urban Institute.
The report uses College Scorecard data to model how the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program would affect loan repayment patterns for more than 25,000 postsecondary programs.