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Angie Alamah is a recruiter for Marist College, a private institution located in Poughkeepsie, New York. Yet, Alamah is not visiting high schools up and down the Hudson River or even in Connecticut and New Jersey; she lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
Her situation is far from unique. Demographic shifts and funding woes are causing more colleges to hire recruiters like Alamah, who live and work hundreds of miles from campus, to woo potential applicants. Is it worth it?

The odds were stacked against Benny Shendo Jr.—the result of generations of systemic barriers facing Native Americans. Growing up, he watched as his friends failed to graduate from college or, in many cases, even enroll, in large part because they didn’t feel welcomed. But Shendo was determined to forge a different path.
That determination is what drives the senator from New Mexico in his new role at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he aims to strengthen CU’s relationship with tribal communities and build programs that draw more Native students to college.

Despite objections from faculty, staff, alumni, and students, Youngstown State University will name U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson as its 10th president.
Campus concerns about Johnson’s selection are two-fold. First, many cite the lack of transparency in the process which, unlike previous presidential searches at YSU, offered no opportunity for public interactions with candidates nor any campus input into the selection. Johnson also voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Apprenticeships still remain outside the mainstream in the United States, but a new report argues that broader adoption could open up a massive talent pool of trained workers.
The report, from Multiverse and the Burning Glass Institute, suggests that several populations of workers could benefit from apprenticeship opportunities, including 36 million high-churn, low-wage workers without bachelor’s degrees and 68 million mid-career workers seeking a chance for better pay.

Students have been traveling between China and the United States for generations, propelled by ambition, curiosity, and a belief that their time abroad could help them better their lives and the futures of their countries.
Students, in fact, have become an anchor in the two countries’ relations over the past two decades, even when political or economic ties soured. But that anchor is now under threat.

What does it mean in 2023 to be a public flagship university with a national profile and serve the community at the same time? Santa Ono, president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, weighs in with his perspective on this new episode of Future U.
College leaders, students, and mental health experts join the second part of the conversation to discuss the key issues that defined higher education this year.