Daily Lumina News 052024

The students were the last to know.
It was April 29—a week before finals—when Wells College announced plans to close. The seemingly abrupt decision left current and newly admitted students and faculty members in a panic to find new schools. Now, evidence shows that Wells administrators knew for months of the college's demise, even as they made public assurances that all was well.

Once associated solely with the building trades, today’s apprenticeships are gaining popularity as a way to expand opportunities in a wider variety of industries for American workers and employers.
On this podcast, John Colborn of Apprenticeships for America discusses the changing image of apprenticeships and their role in supplying the talent necessary to fill high-demand jobs in new-collar professions such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and health care.

May is traditionally the time when colleges gain clarity about their incoming classes. This year, however, those enrollment projections come with a big asterisk.
That’s because the number of federal aid applications is significantly lower than in past years, leading to fears that fewer students will go to college at all this fall.

In March, the country’s largest stone fruit producer laid off thousands of workers. The collapse of Prima Wawona would soon spark a major question about the labor force that fuels California’s $50 billion agricultural industry: Are workers prepared for more industry disruptions?
Inside an electrical engineering lab at Reedley College, in southeast Fresno County, one answer to that question is taking shape.

Paid work-based learning like internships, apprenticeships, and co-ops offer valuable opportunities for students to gain work experience and expand their professional networks. While traditionally more prevalent in four-year institutions, many community colleges have been expanding their offerings of work-based learning opportunities.
But offering work-based learning opportunities to community college students is not enough; experts say they must be designed with accessibility in mind.

Protests represent a century-long tradition at the University of Texas at Austin, and The Daily Texan, the student-operated university newspaper, has faithfully covered and recorded these significant historical events.
Some of those protests would later set precedents for modern demonstrations and university policies, including encampment bans. Here’s a look back at some of the pivotal protest moments in UT-Austin's history.