Top Higher Education News for Wednesday
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 Most students expect their earnings to go toward paying for college, but few can say that their colleges are matching that investment in their future. At McPherson College in Kansas, students who opt in to the "Student Debt Project" receive educational and financial support from the institution to benefit their overall financial well-being and help minimize their student loan debt. |
| Megan Zahneis, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Diversity statements have endured a rough few months. The statements, which generally ask people applying for faculty jobs or seeking promotion or tenure to describe how they can contribute to a college’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, have seen nine states pass bans on their use in the past two years. That reality is causing many people across higher education to ask: Is the diversity statement dead? |
| Susan Headden, Focus Magazine SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Fayetteville State University, a federally designated Historically Black College and University in North Carolina, goes the extra mile to attract and retain military veterans and their families, who represent 30 percent of the student body. Jeremy Ricketts, a 20-year Army veteran, knows this firsthand. Despite being white and two decades older than most of his classmates, Ricketts says he found his true community at Fayetteville State. Today, he's studying psychology and hopes to use his experiences with combat injuries to help other wounded soldiers recover. |
| Annie Ma and Makiya Seminera, The Associated Press SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Experts say it will take years to see the full impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision to ban race-conscious admissions, but some selective institutions are already reporting fewer incoming Black students. The end of affirmative action isn’t the only factor affecting the makeup of freshman classes. Some colleges are changing standardized test requirements, heightening their importance. And a muddled rollout of a new federal financial aid form has complicated decisions of students nationwide on where and whether to attend college. |
| Amy DiPierro, EdSource SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Faculty members and students at four campuses in the Cal State system say they’re starting to feel the impact of belt-tightening in the early weeks of the 2024-25 school year. Those budget-cutting signs include heavier workloads, larger class sizes, and fewer course options. |
| Julia Barajas, LAist SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A 2019 survey of California community college students found that 16 percent were homeless; 60 percent had experienced housing insecurity. Following the tradition of universities endowing scholarships and buildings, the Sierra College Foundation came up with the idea to establish an "Endow-A-Bed" program. The goal is to make 10 beds available for free. Seven of them have already been funded. |
| Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive |
| Elin Johnson, Learn & Work Ecosystem |
| Laurel Elder, The Hechinger Report |
| Joshua Kim and Edward J. Maloney, Learning Innovation |
| Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat Colorado |
| Scott Carlson, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Alcino Donadel, University Business |
| Ryan Petersen, EdTech Magazine |
| Alex Rose, The Daily Times |
| Liann Herder, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Emma Murphy, Tahlequah Daily Press (Oklahoma) |
| Suzanne Potter, Public News Service |
| Brooklyn Draisey, News From the States |
| Chris Hughes, Spectrum News |
| Hannah Poukish, The Sacramento Bee |
| The Business-Higher Education Forum |
| American Council on Education |
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