Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Joanna Mikulski, New America SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Today, leaders in the growing “bioeconomy” are harnessing the power of biology to produce almost anything used in daily life—from medicines to plastics. However, growth and innovation in the bioeconomy will fall short without a workforce ready to fill the good jobs created, and community colleges are central to building those pathways. Expanding strong community college programs requires intentional effort and robust investment, experts say, and it needs to be a priority for public and private sector leaders at the national, state, and local levels. |
| Alex Walters, The Chronicle of Higher Education
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A professor often encounters students who remain silent throughout the entire school year. Could a teaching assistant, powered by artificial intelligence, provide the low-pressure environment these students need to thrive? That's what a small group of professors at Morehouse College hope to discover this fall when they debut digital avatars that resemble each professor's physical appearance and demeanor. According to Morehouse officials, the idea is for students to use the virtual tool to ask questions and even listen to lectures that they missed. |
| Li Khan, CalMatters SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Alina Kralya tinkers with a microcontroller for one of her computer science projects at American River College. Nearby, a group of other first-generation college students sit in green and blue chairs, chatting about their math homework.
It’s a typical scene at this community college space for students in the Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement program known as MESA. The effort is now expanding across the state, with the goal of reducing barriers to STEM jobs for low-income, first-generation students.
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| Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration calls for fundamentally reshaping the government and federal higher education policy. Critics say it’s a road map to authoritarianism. While the nearly 900-page policy manual has been in the works for more than two years, its policy recommendations are garnering greater attention and scrutiny as the presidential election heats up. In addition to dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, the plan calls for privatizing student loans and ending all ongoing Title IX investigations. |
| Royel M. Johnson and Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, The San Luis Obispo Tribune SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A new California bill would establish a Black-Serving Institution Program to designate public institutions that excel at providing academic resources to Black and African American students. It’s a promising first step. But much more will be needed to ensure equity in Black student outcomes, write two California professors in this perspective piece. |
| Keith BieryGolick, WCPO SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Almost one in 11 people in Ohio start college but never finish, according to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Those statistics are even worse for community colleges, where almost half the students who start classes never get a degree or complete a certification. A new program at Cincinnati State is taking steps to change their trajectory. |
| Tim McCarthy and Amber Garrison Duncan, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| American Council on Education |
| Christopher M. Mullin, Higher Education Digest |
| Lasherica Thornton, EdSource |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed |
| Michal Kurlaender, Susanna Cooper, Francisco Rodriguez, and Edward Bush, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning |
| Ellie Wolfe, Arizona Daily Star |
| Colin A. Young, State House News Service |
| Alex Putterman, CT Insider |
| Alcino Donadel, University Business |
| Daniel Perez, El Paso Matters |
| Barbara Norton, Alaska Beacon |
| Sherri Welch, Crain's Detroit Business (Michigan) |
| Clayton Henkel, NC Newsline |
| Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive |
| American Institutes for Research |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
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