Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn For many colleges leaders across the country, another academic year translates into a struggle to fit all of their students into campus housing. As the fall semester begins, some campuses are at least temporarily adjusting their existing housing infrastructure to accommodate the high demand. That might mean placing upperclassmen in dorms designed for freshmen—or vice versa—and housing three students in dorm rooms designed for two. |
| Jonathan Chang and Meghna Chakrabarti, WBUR SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Some colleges and universities receive tens of thousands of admissions applications every year. They're looking for a faster way to process them—with artificial intelligence. But can AI give admissions officers an accurate picture of the whole student? Higher education leaders, innovation experts, and career development advisors weigh in. |
| Kate Rix, Higher Ed Dive SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Miyaka Mackie, 46, is among a growing group of former University of North Carolina System students to give college another try. In 2021, the North Carolina General Assembly allocated $97 million to start Project Kitty Hawk, a nonprofit ed-tech startup that would contact students like Mackie. The initiative launched in May 2023, and, as of late August, Project Kitty Hawk had reenrolled almost 2,800 students who started college at one of the network’s universities but left without finishing their credentials. Projects similar to Project Kitty Hawk are underway in other states. |
| Ashley Mowreader, Voices of Student Success SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Anti-war protests on college campuses are not a new phenomenon; many institutions saw similar unrest during the Vietnam War. One such institution was the University of South Carolina, which took an unconventional approach to mitigating student frustrations. On this podcast, John Gardner, one of the professors behind the approaches at USC, reflects on the protests of the 1970s and shares how campus leaders today can learn from the past. |
| Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Students seem increasingly cynical about the value of college, transactional in their approach to learning, and frustrated by their coursework. On college tours and in admissions literature, they are promised an exciting experience on the path to economic security—an emphasis echoed by parents and policymakers. Yet many are stressed out before they even take their first class. And faculty members are wrestling with the consequences. |
| Katie Lobosco, CNN SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A group of seven Republican-led states filed a fresh lawsuit Tuesday to block new student loan forgiveness plans that the Biden administration expected to start rolling out this fall. The lawsuit marks yet another legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s student loan policies and could potentially tie up his latest effort to deliver debt relief before the November election. So far, nearly 4.8 million people have seen their federal student debt canceled under Biden, totaling $169 billion. |
| Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed |
| Briana Henderson, NBC Montana |
| Michael Mazenko, Denver Westword |
| Sara Goldrick-Rab, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Steven Mintz, Higher Ed Gamma |
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| Antoinette Grajeda, News From the States |
| Mason Ald and Emyle Watkins, WBFO |
| Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes |
| Kevin Richert, Idaho Education News |
| Kelly Gibbons, Minnesota Reformer |
| Claudette Riley, Springfield News-Leader |
| Matthew Dembicki, Community College Daily |
| Becky Jacobs, The Cap Times |
| Nathaniel Cline, Virginia Mercury |
| Cory Turner and Ayesha Rascoe, NPR |
| Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed |
| Sara Partridge and Madison Weiss, Center for American Progress |
| Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce |
| Jobs for the Future and University of Phoenix |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| National Association of Colleges and Employers |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
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