Daily Lumina News 121622

At 16, Sarah Turner was determined to pursue her higher education dreams. She had every expectation of becoming the first person in her family to graduate from college.
Then she got pregnant. Her son's arrival transformed Turner. But her daily life didn’t slow down. This is how a ‘mom-student’ created a community to help her stay—and succeed—in college.

When Taylor Humphrey first went to college, he moved from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota to a predominantly white city four hours to the south. During that time, the police would pull him over again and again.
Those troubling experiences motivated Humphrey to enroll at Leech Lake Tribal College to become a police officer. Helping Native American students secure a successful future in law enforcement is a key mission of the school. Addressing basic needs insecurity is another.

At Utah Valley University, a campus conflict is pitting a corporate president against her faculty over one word: accountability.
It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change.

The National Association for College Admission Counseling is creating a new advisory group focused on folding student perspectives into the creation of admissions policies.
The goal is to give students—the individuals most affected by changes to college admissions policies and practices—an opportunity to inspire change and increase equity.

Fisk University is experiencing record enrollment—a growth of more than 63 percent in the past five years. But the boom comes with some growing pains, namely a lack of residential space for all the new students.
The historically Black institution in Nashville, Tennessee, has come up with a novel solution: modular, cost-effective residential units built from shipping containers.

Timothy Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown are college admissions experts, so they know how confusing and overwhelming the higher education process can be.
That's especially true for Black students and families. On this episode of Here & Now, Fields and Herndon-Brown discuss why there are specific challenges for Black students—and why it's important for parents, guidance counselors, and high schoolers to be better informed about the college admissions process.