Daily Lumina News 040722

Kate Marley, a biology professor, knew the pandemic was wreaking havoc on people’s lives. But she didn’t expect that its impact on learning would be so profound, even when students returned, with excitement, to campus.
She is far from alone. Professors everywhere are reporting record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and unsure of their future.

During the pandemic, when millions of high school students made the shift to learning online, Andrea Hernandez felt like she lost her muscle for being a student.
Now, after two years of cobbled-together pandemic learning, many college professors are scrambling to fill learning gaps and fend off what they say will be inequitable consequences.

California’s 116 community colleges have been the subject of a number of damaging security breaches over the past year, with tens of thousands of reported attempts by scammers to apply and enroll.
In an effort to stymie online theft of financial aid, the campuses may soon receive about $100 million to beef up cybersecurity.

What should teenagers do after high school?
In 2021, nine diverse high school students from around the United States shared their thoughts about the lives they’re working toward and the choices they’re making to get there. This interview follows up on how their decisions between college and job training turned out.

After protests, the University of California, Los Angeles, took down a job posting that offered no pay. But it turns out colleges often expect Ph.D.s to work for free.
Contingent faculty, the umbrella term for all kinds of generally part-time and untenured college teachers without much if any job security, make up a huge portion of the teaching staff of universities—by some estimates, around 70 percent overall and more in community colleges.

A report by the Detroit Regional Chamber is raising concerns about the impact of COVID-19 on post-high school success.
According to the report, the long-term effect of the pandemic on education threatens an already leaky talent pipeline where large numbers of students do not enroll in postsecondary education or training.