Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Stressful events ranging from personal matters—juggling work, family responsibilities, and financial obligations—to unprecedented global phenomena, political turmoil, and a constant stream of digital information surround college students today. Students say those factors have a significant impact on their academic success, and they want help from their institutions to ease the pressure. |
| Victoria Lim, WorkingNation
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Look up “VR" on any search engine and most results will reference gaming, but virtual reality is fast becoming a tool for job preparation and career exploration for K-12 and postsecondary education students. Virtual reality headsets are helping users see what’s possible in varying industries, including skilled trades and forensic science. In this interview, Purdue University's Charles Steele and Cliff Hagan of the Boys & Girls Club in Kentucky explain how they are using virtual reality to give students hands-on access to what future jobs entail. |
| Taylor White, New America SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn To truly “bridge the divide” between the systems that serve young people on their journey to adulthood, the nation's K-12 education, postsecondary education, public workforce, and human and social service systems must function like coordinated parts of a whole, rather than wholly distinct entities. To get there, they need to share a common vision and have the flexibility to align their work and resources to achieve it. And federal funding shouldn’t be an impediment to doing so, policy experts and student advocates contend. |
| Jonaki Mehta, Ari Shapiro, Marc Rivers, and Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A confident young girl. A tough boss. An empathetic prosecutor. At times, slow to make decisions. A “consummate college student” with a wry sense of humor. These are some of the ways the people in Vice President Kamala Harris’ life remember her before she became a household name in Washington—people who shared many laughs, lunches, conversations, and school bus rides with the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. |
| Isaac Windes, San Antonio Report SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The number of graduating seniors filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid declined by thousands across San Antonio compared with last year—foreshadowing a possible decline in the number of students going to college in the fall. With just weeks to go before classes begin, colleges and universities are still projecting record-breaking enrollment, but advocates and university officials warn those numbers could dwindle if students don’t receive the funding they need to pay for college by the time tuition comes due. |
| Charlotte West, Open Campus SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Every Monday evening in June and July, Kristen Discola, a sociology professor at California State University Los Angeles, drove through rush hour traffic to the California Institution for Women in Chino to teach a class on forgiveness. Discola claims that examining forgiveness through an academic lens enables the women to reflect on their own experiences of causing harm and being harmed. |
| Lauren Coffey, Inside Higher Ed |
| Richard Badenhausen, Marcy Brown Marsden, and Clay Motley, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Jay Waagmeester, Florida Phoenix |
| Trisha Nail, NH Business Review |
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| Emma Hall, The Sacramento Bee |
| Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal |
| William B. Harvey, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Jabari Simama, Governing Magazine |
| Laura Ascione, eCampus News |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed |
| Sterling Davies, The Sacramento Observer |
| Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive |
| Mia Hilkowitz, Indiana Capital Chronicle |
| Piper Hutchinson, Louisiana Illuminator |
| Avery Bleichfeld, The Bay State Banner (Massachusetts) |
| Rob Manning, Oregon Public Broadcasting |
| Illumination by Modern Campus |
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