Daily Lumina News 022420

Employers across the country are turning to untapped talent pools—veterans, workers with disabilities, and the formerly incarcerated—to survive today's low unemployment and skill gaps. But one sales and marketing company has gone a step further by setting up shop in prisons and hiring currently incarcerated workers.

Most of the approximately 13,000 full-time students who attend Brooklyn College depend on some form of financial aid. Many come from families in which neither parent completed college. These students typically do not have access to the kind of infrastructure that can help them with internships and jobs.
The school's Magner Career Center aims to change that by providing advantages and resources to students who often have not had many in their lives.

Felicida Barajas, a counselor at Jurupa Valley High School, is passionate about helping students get to college. She often shares her own story of navigating higher education as a first-generation student.
Counselors can make the difference between a student heading to college with a robust financial aid package and a plan of study—or not applying to college at all. Yet many counselors receive little or no training in college counseling. Instead, the focus is on student mental health.

Internships have long aimed to fill the “experience gap” for college students, allowing them to get their foot in the door with prospective employers and gain relevant experience for their resumes.
Yet the models that work for 20-something students often do not suit the realities of working adults who now make up 39 percent of the higher education market. These individuals cannot put their life on hold—especially for in-person internships that are unpaid.