Daily Lumina News 042622

Affordable and reliable broadband access can be a lifeline for tribal colleges, which are usually located in remote, rural areas of the country.
Leaders from two tribal colleges—one deep in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and the other on the northernmost tip of Alaska—explain why they may struggle to provide internet service when COVID relief money runs out.

Nursing students at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College say the past two years haven't made them question their decisions to pursue the field. It's only made them eager to step up to the plate faster.
And they and their fellow graduates are all but guaranteed jobs—their pick of many, even—as employers clamor to bolster a shrinking nursing workforce.

Harriet Krzykowski served as a mental health aide in a South Florida correctional facility, making $12 per hour, when she learned about the tragic and senseless death of an inmate named Darren Rainey.
Krzykowski wanted to quit, but she desperately needed her job. She's not alone. Author Eyal Press reflects on the nation’s most morally troubling labor—and why many refuse to acknowledge it—in this interview.

With pressure mounting on colleges to address skyrocketing costs that leave some graduating students hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt—and others unable to even consider higher education—one college is taking an unusual step.
On this episode of Here & Now, the president of Williams College in Massachusetts explains why her school is eliminating loans and work-study programs from its aid packages and replacing them with grants that do not have to be repaid.