Daily Lumina News 091520

During the past decade, Lumina Foundation has concentrated resources and effort on working within states and communities and with employers and education and training providers to create conditions for a fair, learner-focused system that better prepares individuals for work and life. While the nation has made measurable progress, it has not been sufficient to develop the talent the country so desperately needs.
We must now refine and implement strategies that accelerate and scale the redesign of systems to take us to 2025 and beyond.
This strategic plan, the fourth since 2008, represents Lumina’s closing argument for the 2025 goal. A new video provides insight, as well.

To succeed in college, student parents regularly tackled day-to-day problems before the coronavirus struck; they need even more help now.
Some colleges are stepping up to the challenge, offering everything from food and household supplies to online counseling to help student parents strategize support and connect them with community resources.

Campuses across the country re-opened this fall only to close again as COVID-19 cases spiked. The growing list of schools includes California State University, North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and James Madison University, among others.
But when campuses double-back on re-opening, not all students have alternate housing waiting for them.

Like everything else during COVID-19, college life is remaking itself this fall. Some students returned to subdued campuses for remote classes, while others are redoing their childhood bedrooms and logging in from home.
For first-year students, this college experience is all they know.
Four freshmen from the Chicago area offer a glimpse of their first semester as they adapt, adjust, and aim to create a new normal amid a global pandemic.