Daily Lumina News 032123

Higher education is a shared responsibility for colleges and universities, governments, and students and their families, says Lumina Foundation's Michelle Asha Cooper.
In this interview, Asha Cooper discusses the challenges and opportunities in getting more students—especially students of color, adult learners, and low-income students—to and through college.

When colleges and boot camps team up, the colleges typically just put their name on the programs while the boot camp companies recruit students, develop curricula, and teach classes.
Such arrangements are quietly proliferating with few, if any, quality controls or assurances in place to protect students. At least 75 such partnerships exist between colleges and three of the country’s top boot camp provider companies: edX, ThriveDX, and Fullstack Academy.

A professor of English at Palm Beach Atlantic University had his contract terminated last week after a parent complained to the university president about a racial-justice unit in his course.
Samuel Joeckel’s termination comes amid a flurry of legislative action in Florida that seeks to limit, at the state’s public institutions, the study of race, gender, and the causes of inequality. And while Palm Beach Atlantic’s status as a private university exempts it from such legislation, Joeckel says his termination is a product of the political environment.

As a college student, Josh Landau came close to dropping out of school. But Landau was motivated to learn for the sake of learning. Now, as a higher education professional, he wants to support others to succeed in the ways that he did.
Landau shares more about his personal academic struggles, his philosophy for student success, and how his team works to remove barriers for students through intentional touch points.

Colleges across Indiana can withhold transcripts from former students with unpaid bills in an attempt to incentivize them to pay up. But having no record of college credits can impede the ability of students to apply for jobs, pursue internships, or further their education later on.
Indiana lawmakers want to restrict the practice of transcript withholding at public universities—as long as students are working to pay down their debt.

Morris Brown College is making a comeback. The school recently regained accreditation after almost 20 years without it. Enrollment is up and expected to keep growing.
The school also has plans to build a hotel on campus to train students to work in the hospitality and service industries. President Kevin James explains more about the "new" Morris Brown College.