Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Courtney Brown, Lumina Foundation SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn How can we restore confidence in higher education? The solution lies in a concerted effort to align educational outcomes with labor market demands. This means ensuring that a high-quality curriculum includes practical vocational skills and high critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are universally applicable. As a nation, we cannot afford to let a crisis of confidence undermine the potential of our next generation. The time for action and reform is now, writes Lumina Foundation's Courtney Brown in this perspective. |
| Nev Jones, PublicSource SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Nev Jones, who has schizophrenia, was nudged out of graduate school in Chicago. She was treated as delusional by mental health professionals. Now she’s an associate professor with tenure at the University of Pittsburgh—even as she continues to fight to empower the voices of others with serious mental illness. |
| Zachary Schermele, USA Today SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Experience has taught Josephine Perl that most college students pursuing humanities degrees inevitably face the same question: What will you do to make a living? It's an inquiry that the 20-year-old philosophy major at Boston University says especially troubles students like her these days, as more labor experts predict the rise in artificial intelligence could diminish the value of some degrees. |
| Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A Florida law that went into effect last July has mostly ended paper-and-pen voter registration on the state’s college campuses, according to students and voter registration organizations. The number of groups registering voters on campuses across the state has plummeted, and while some are refocusing their efforts on helping students register online, voting rights advocates worry that the method may be less effective. |
| Alina Selyukh, WUNC SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn When Walmart stopped requiring college degrees for most of its corporate jobs last year, the company confronted three deep truths about work and schooling: A college diploma is only a proxy for what someone knows, and not always a perfect one. A degree's high cost sidelines many people. For industries dominated by workers without degrees, cultivating future talent demands a different playbook.
Some of the nation’s largest employers, including Walmart and McDonald’s, are now broaching a new frontier in higher education: convincing colleges to give retail and fast-food workers credit for what they learn on the job, counting toward a degree.
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| Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Dozens of nonprofit colleges have closed in recent years, most often citing declining enrollment and financial distress. And financial analysts predict that private regional colleges will increasingly be required to go head-to-head with public institutions for students and resources. Amid these headwinds, more college leaders are considering a merger or acquisition and looking for guidance from institutions that have come out the other side of such deals. |
| Alcino Donadel, University Business |
| Jessica Klein, Fast Company |
| Gemma DiCarlo, Oregon Public Broadcasting |
| Mordecai Ian Brownlee, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY |
| Becky Jacobs, The Capital Times |
| Sam Hudzik, New England Public Media |
| Aketzally Alvarado, Minnesota Reformer |
| Tina Kelley, NJ Advance Media |
| Joshua Irvine, Grand Forks Herald |
| Jason Ma, Fortune Magazine |
| Dawn M. Formo and Patricia Parker, Beyond Transfer |
| Angela Dennis, Knoxville News Sentinel |
| Noah Jeffries, The State Journal |
| Kenyatta Lovett, Inside Higher Ed |
| Hannah Harvey, The Observer-Reporter (Pennsylvania) |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| Council for Adult and Experiential Learning |
| American Council on Education |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
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