Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Too often, diversity, equity, and inclusion offices operate in crisis mode, failing to make persuasive cases for why they’re needed until lawmakers threaten to legislate them out of existence or administrators pull out the budget ax, experts say. Elizabeth Halimah hopes to change that by using data to help tell the DEI story— including the "good, the bad, and the ugly.” |
| Charlotte West, LAist SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A little over a year ago, California State University at Dominguez Hills launched the state's first master’s degree program for incarcerated students, with the goal of creating a pathway for a growing number of college graduates to continue their education behind bars. Today, the program's future is uncertain. The current challenges facing the master’s program highlight the vulnerability of prison education programs that rely on a single funding source. |
| Nadia Tamez-Robledo, EdSurge SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. Yet few are likely to grow up and establish careers in technology. For them, there’s obviously a leak somewhere in the school-to-jobs pipeline. Education leaders, student advocates, and equity experts recently gathered at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual conference to talk about why Latinos are still lagging in science education and what it’s going to take to make sure they don’t get left behind—particularly in the fast-growing AI industry. |
| Julie Bosman, Robert Chiarito, Alan Blinder, and Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn In the pivotal battleground of Wisconsin, where presidential elections are won or lost by only tens of thousands of votes, students like those at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside are highly sought after. But getting young people interested in voting has always been a tall order. And on Tuesday night, that job did not get any easier after the vice-presidential debate between Senator JD Vance of Ohio and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. |
| Stephanie Brown and Darryl C. Murphy, WBUR SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Last year, thousands of students across the country demonstrated and set up encampments at their institutions. The protests gained national attention, with many schools taking varying approaches to break up and quell the demonstrations. Higher education reporter Carrie Jung weighs in on what college administrators have done to update their rulebooks as students return to campus and how students are responding. |
| Ashley Mowreader, Voices of Student Success SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Students are more likely to persist, retain, and complete a college degree or credential when they form connections to their campus. However, building high-quality and long-lasting relationships can feel challenging or unattainable for many college students. In this interview, Elon University’s Peter Felten and Emily Krechel discuss the role of mentorships in student success and how their school creates a relationship-rich university community. |
| Tabitha Whissemore, Community College Daily |
| Melissa Korn, The Wall Street Journal |
| Kate Tornone, Higher Ed Dive |
| Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY |
| Olivia Cheche, New America |
| Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed |
| Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters |
| Quay Dorsey and Valentin Pedroza, WestEd |
| Veronica Calderon, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Brooklyn Draisey, Iowa Capital Dispatch |
| Williesha Morris, Alabama Media |
| Connor Smith, Spectrum News |
| Megan Walter, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators |
| Isha Trivedi, East Bay Times |
| Education Equity Solutions |
| The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
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