Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Voices of Student Success SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Many community college students aspire to earn a bachelor’s degree, but institutional barriers often prevent successful transfer and completion. Those barriers include a loss of credits, which slows their progress toward graduation and increases the costs associated with higher education. On this podcast, transfer advocates discuss the latest strategies and processes to improve transfers across the country. Pamela Johnston of Tallahassee State College joins the conversation to describe how her school has revised its advising process to make registration, transfer planning, and working with advisors more seamless for students. |
| Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn When Max Kenner, founder of the Bard Prison Initiative, first met Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's wife, Gwen, more than a decade ago, he immediately knew he’d found an ally. A former teacher like her then-Congressman husband, Walz wanted to know everything about Kenner's initiative to educate prisoners. And now that Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Tim Walz as her running mate in her presidential campaign, there may be a member of the second family with the strongest commitment to prison education yet. |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn When designed well, online education has the potential to promote access for students with disabilities, as well as academic success and degree completion for these learners. A recent report from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice at Southern New Hampshire University highlights obstacles in online education for students with disabilities and some of the ways institutions can aid disabled students’ educational pursuits. |
| Lauren Camera, U.S. News & World Report SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Kamala Harris and Donald Trump offer two starkly different views on the federal government’s role in education. On the higher education front, Harris is expected to build on the Biden’s administration pursuit of student loan debt cancellation and boost funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Trump, meanwhile, favors abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, rolling back Title IX protections for LGBTQ students, and prosecuting colleges that maintain diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. |
| Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Four years clean from methamphetamine and with five associate degrees in hand from a community college in California’s Central Coast, Cheech Raygoza began his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2022, feeling like he was alone in prison—again. But over time, those feelings began to change as he met more drug recovery students through a small program at UC Berkeley. The student government now wants every campus to have a collegiate recovery center, programs that offer support groups and other tools to help students battle addiction. |
| Laura Aka, WorkingNation
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Adult learners are not a one-size-fits-all population. However, the estimated eight million adult learners in the United States do share one thing in common: They are learners who have not followed the traditional pathway from high school to college to career. Beth Doyle of the Council for Adults and Experiential Learning breaks down today's adult education system and the strategies and supports that employers and colleges must provide to create more pathways to opportunities for these learners. |
| Amy Morona, Signal Cleveland |
| Ryan Anderson, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |
| Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service |
| Mark Wolf, National Conference of State Legislatures |
| Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight |
| Miriam Porras, Madeline Joy Trimble, and Daniel Rossman, Ithaka S+R |
| Sophie Rosenthal and Allison Seymour, WUSA |
| Johnny Jackson, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Nathaniel Cline, Virginia Mercury |
| Cameron Conner, Missourinet |
| Sara Partridge, Madison Weiss, and Brendan Duke, Center for American Progress |
| Alcino Donadel, University Business |
| Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed |
| Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix |
| Whitney Downard, Indiana Capital Chronicle |
| Peter Medlin, Northern Public Radio |
| National Bureau of Economic Research |
| American Council on Education |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
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