Top Higher Education News for Friday
Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Rebecca Koenig, EdSurge SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. They’re part of a practice, increasingly popular nationwide, that sees teenagers complete advanced classes—mostly offered through community colleges—while juggling typical high school activities like sports practices, part-time jobs, and dances. |
| Jayla Moody Marshall, Diverse Issues in Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn If Valerie Kinloch could tell herself as a young freshman at Johnson C. Smith University anything, it would be to believe in the power of dreams. In August 2023, Kinloch became the 15th president of her alma mater—the only Historically Black College and University in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 1867 by formerly enslaved Black people. She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. |
| Jasper Smith, The Chronicle of Higher Education
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn This week, Florida A&M University’s interim president demanded the immediate resignation of multiple senior leaders in his cabinet in an effort to restructure the “leadership, vision, and strategies” of the historically Black institution. The decision comes about a month after the previous university president abruptly resigned and less than a week after a extensive report found that the university rushed the vetting process of a botched $237-million donation made during its spring commencement. The university’s vice president for advancement also resigned in May. |
| Jessica Blake, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A new survey from New Mexico shows that nearly 60 percent of students are food insecure. Experts say that number likely rose when the state’s free-tuition program, the Opportunity Scholarship, made college more accessible for low-income learners. Higher education department officials and university administrators from across the state have already formed a Basic Needs Consortium to develop a statewide response. |
| Michael Horn, Forbes SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn In 2013, two academics—Michael Horn and Clayton Christensen—made a bold and controversial prediction in the New York Times that some 25 percent of struggling colleges and universities would disappear or merge in the next 10 to 15 years. So how is that prediction holding up? Pretty well it turns out. |
| Joe Schulz, Wisconsin Public Radio SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is spearheading an effort to help more workers in the upper Midwest gain skills for green jobs that support manufacturing. UW-Milwaukee will assist nine community colleges in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois to establish Industrial Training Assessment Centers—places where workers can develop energy assessment skills.Those skills can then be used to help manufacturers reduce energy consumption and cut carbon emissions, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. |
| Julian Alssid and Kaitlin LeMoine, Work Forces |
| Paul Jonas, EdTech Magazine |
| Nick Fouriezos, The Daily Yonder |
| Stephen J. Handel and Eileen L. Strempel, Inside Higher Ed |
| Jane Swift, WorkingNation |
| Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado |
| U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| Rhonda Jeter, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Mary Lett, Pensacola News Journal (Florida) |
| Jeff Murray, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute |
| Daltyn Lofstrom, The Bemidji Pioneer |
| Jemma Stephenson, Alabama Reflector |
| Anthony Hennen, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Aleksandra Appleton, Chalkbeat Indiana |
| Emma Hall, The Fresno Bee |
| Lasherica Thornton, EdSource (California) |
| Jefferson City News Tribune (Missouri) |
| Katie McKellar, News From the States |
| Public Policy Institute of California |
| Learning Policy Institute |
| FutureEd and the HEA Group |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| The Committee for Economic Development |
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