Top Higher Education News for Thursday
Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Tennessee State University is facing challenging times. The historically Black land-grant institution has cut 114 positions this semester, slashed duplicative contracts for software and other services, and frozen all nonessential hiring and spending in an attempt to get its finances back on track. State lawmakers blame former administrators for the institution's financial woes, while former administrators blame chronic state underfunding. |
| Jack Stripling, College Matters SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn In 1994, a little movie about a politically correct college landed in theaters. Not many people saw it at the time. However, during its resurgence on cable television and home video, PCU emerged as a cult classic film, satirizing the identity politics, liberal extremism, and right-wing intolerance that fuel many of today's most heated disputes in higher education. In this interview, PCU's co-writer Zak Penn talks about how the film looks in 2024. |
| Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A desire at some schools to fulfill promises related to affordability and the dire need at other schools to offset declining enrollment have resulted in a boon for families earning upward of six figures: More schools are offering free tuition to middle-income families. To cover the increase in financial aid, schools are fundraising and using endowment funds. University leaders say they are sending a clear message that their institutions are affordable for a large and important portion of the college-going public. |
| Douglas Belkin, The Wall Street Journal SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn When it comes to basic skills such as creating a complex travel itinerary, reading a thermometer, or finding information from a website, American workers are falling behind those in other rich countries. That is according to a global test of adult know-how, which measures job readiness and problem-solving among workers in industrialized countries. The results largely show that the least-educated American workers between the ages of 16 and 65 are less able to make inferences from a section of text, manipulate fractions, or apply spatial reasoning—even as the most-educated are getting smarter. |
| Kate Rix, Higher Ed Dive SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Robin Boston wasn’t expecting her job to help her buy a house when she started working for the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in 2016. But two years after joining the university’s Office of Philanthropy, Boston bought her first home, less than a mile from the campus. The best part? The university made the down payment. |
| Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn High school teacher Steve Lazar Lazar has spent much of his career working at non-selective New York City high schools that predominantly serve low-income students of color. So he was ecstatic to learn about a new policy at SUNY designed to give his students a leg up in an admissions process that often favors families with time and resources. As it turns out, intricate details of the policy may be cause for concern. |
| Laura Ascione, eCampus News |
| Tom Crowfoot, World Economic Forum |
| Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource |
| Paul Nelson De La Cerda, CalMatters |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed |
| Mallika Seshadri, EdSource |
| Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes |
| Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report |
| Kent Phillippe, DataPoints |
| Danielle Smith, Public News Service |
| Carlie Kollath Wells, Alex Fitzpatrick, and Justin Kaufmann, Axios New Orleans |
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