Daily Lumina News 112822

Financial barriers often dictate where Native Americans apply for college and whether they graduate once enrolled.
A national study on college affordability reveals key findings about Indigenous student populations and their economic needs. Among them: 67 percent of these students are expected to contribute to family bills while in college. Moreover, many Native American students come from households with annual incomes of under $20,000.

More than five million children in the United States have experienced the incarceration of a parent. The separation can result in costly educational, emotional, and economic consequences.
In this essay, Ryan Moser—who is serving eight years in prison—explains how it feels to parent his college-age son from behind bars.

It’s hard to focus on college classes when you don’t have access to food or a place to sleep at night, says Nadine Greene-Hicks, whose job as the community connections coordinator at Central Virginia Community College is to try to dismantle those barriers.
Virginia’s community colleges are stepping up the help they provide students and simplifying the process for getting aid. It’s a response they hope will combat some of the financial and emotional pressures of the pandemic and keep people in school.

With Republicans set to take control of the House in January, Democrats are racing against the clock to advance legislation that will protect recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In this interview, DACA recipient and immigration activist Jesus Castro talks about his experiences with DACA and what’s at stake for the future.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of community college students have aspirations of transferring to selective colleges and universities. But too often, first-generation students and those from lower-income, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous communities lack the guidance and information to do so.
The Transfer Scholars Network aims to change that trajectory.

More U.S. college students are having trouble finding stable housing. About 43 percent of students at four-year universities experienced housing insecurity in 2020, according to a survey by Temple University.
Meanwhile, more senior citizens are struggling to make ends meet. With younger and older generations in a bind, why not have them live together? A program in Southern California called HomeShare OC is doing just that.