Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Ramona Schindelheim, Work in Progress
SHARE: Facebook • Twitter Semiconductors are the backbone of the digital economy, with nearly everything we touch needing a chip. In this interview, John Mitchell of IPC International discusses the increased demand for workers in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and how his group is developing the workforce of the present and the future. |
| William Brangham, Rethinking College SHARE: Facebook • Twitter A pair of decisions by two federal judges has put key parts of President Joe Biden's flagship plan for easing student loan payments on hold—and its future in doubt.
Reporter Danielle Douglas-Gabriel of The Washington Post weighs in on the impact of those decisions for some eight million borrowers who were poised to benefit from the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan beginning next month.
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| Alexa Garza, The Education Trust SHARE: Facebook • Twitter Sentenced at 19, Alexa Garza faced an uncertain future. Education became a beacon of hope, she says, a lifeline through which to navigate the challenges of confinement.
In this perspective piece, Garza discusses the imperative to expand access to educational opportunities for those in prison, as well as for educators, policymakers, and others to embrace a paradigm shift that prioritizes the potential of incarcerated individuals over their past actions.
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| Jessica Blake, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • Twitter This year’s rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid was, by almost all accounts, a fiasco. The new form was riddled with technical glitches and calculation errors, and delays left students and colleges in limbo. But out of the overall mess has come an unexpected victory for college access advocates: increased momentum for state legislation on FAFSA completion. |
| Rose Conlon, WBUR SHARE: Facebook • Twitter More than half of medical school graduates are women, and yet they remain underrepresented among surgeons. The University of Kansas School of Medicine is trying to change that trajectory with the Blackwell Club—named after Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in America—that offers female surgical residents and attending physicians peer support and mentorship. |
| Megan Jamerson, KCRW SHARE: Facebook • Twitter California's community colleges, the University of California, and Cal State University enroll about 60,000 undocumented undergraduate students. But until now, they had little hope of finding on-campus jobs. The Opportunity for All Act could change that outlook, giving students a way to legally earn an income on campus. For students like Fatima Zeferino, who has faced housing and food insecurity throughout her education journey, the outcome of the groundbreaking bill is personal. |
| Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, and Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News |
| Eric F. Spina, Dayton Daily News (Ohio) |
| Miya Turner, WLOX (Mississippi) |
| Laura Ascione, eCampus News |
| Keith Curry and George Boggs, Community College Daily |
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| Dan Loney, Knowledge at Wharton |
| Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune |
| Alex Gonzalez, Public News Service |
| Sunisa Nuonsy, Chalkbeat New York |
| Jerell Hill, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed |
| Adam Frenier, New England Public Media |
| Ross Reily, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger |
| Michelle Tamayo, KUT News |
| Jim Lockwood, The Times-Tribune |
| Nyssa Galatas, National Conference of State Legislatures |
| Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal |
| John Fensterwald, EdSource |
| Amanda Friedman, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Ryan Reyna and Michael Deuser, The 74 |
| Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce |
| University Business and Ellucian |
| Community College Baccalaureate Association |
| American Council on Education |
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