Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Navigating the diverse landscape of scholarship opportunities can be overwhelming for any student. It’s even harder for those who need financial help the most: low-income students or first-generation college-goers, who often lack the guidance to find the right funding opportunities and the academic confidence to apply. A new report from the Common App details the application platform’s ongoing efforts to address that imbalance. |
| Alex Walters, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Yet another Republican governor appears eager to make his mark on public higher education. Faculty fear George Mason University is the next target. Specifically, Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia’s appointees make up a supermajority on George Mason’s Board of Visitors. Among them are numerous researchers and activists with ties to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank. One board member is a lead author of Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump administration that many critics have called authoritarian. |
| Roy Matthew and Aneesh Sohoni, WorkingNation
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Community colleges can drive local and regional prosperity because they often serve as the connective tissue of a region’s workforce development ecosystem that bind students, local governments, and nonprofits, contend
Roy Matthew of Deloitte Consulting and Aneesh Sohoni of One Million Degrees in this op-ed. But to produce the talent that the country needs, community colleges need additional support, and large organizations and corporations are well positioned to help. |
| Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, New America SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Maryland-based 2U, once considered a behemoth company in the online education world, is filing for bankruptcy as it attempts to alleviate its multimillion-dollar debt burden. The company was a dominant force among online program managers, or OPMs, entities that generally help colleges set up virtual programs in exchange for a piece of tuition revenue from them. However, because the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing means 2U will remain operational, issues plaguing the company—and OPMs at large—persist. |
| Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Several Colorado colleges with significant Hispanic student populations are hopeful that a Biden administration order will focus attention on how they can better serve their Hispanic students. Earlier this month, the administration announced an executive order to expand educational opportunities for Latinos nationwide. The order includes creating a board of advisors to study how Hispanic-Serving Institutions can create new methods to support their students in completing college and strengthen the case for increased funding of HSIs. |
| The Ross Kaminsky Show
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A recent report from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni shows that today's students and recent college graduates have little knowledge about history, civics, government, or politics. That reality is concerning to educators and public policy experts, who say it portends an alarming disengagement from the U.S. political system as the November elections loom. In this interview, ACTA's Steve McGuire weighs in on the survey's findings and why they matter. |
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| Sydney Ember, The New York Times |
| Sarah Betancourt, GBH News |
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| Samantha LaFrance, PEN America |
| Lois Elfman, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Lori Lee, North Dallas Gazette |
| Taliya Jones, The Education Trust |
| Alexa Jurado, The Sun News |
| Matthew Petillo, Flatland |
| Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive |
| Gillian Brassil, The Sacramento Bee |
| Jill Desjean, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators |
| Institute for Higher Education Policy |
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