Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
As the new fall semester begins, students are facing reactionary political policies, pivotal elections, and dangerous attacks on women’s reproductive rights. These issues pose significant risks for some students who already face formidable—yet often invisible—challenges on college campuses: single mothers.
Aimée Myers is well aware of these challenges, having become a single mother at age 15. In this essay, she reflects on what higher education can do to better support students who are single mothers.
The environment on college campuses this fall is nowhere near the intensity of the protests last spring, when activists set up encampments and took over campus buildings, scores of people were arrested, and college presidencies became toppled.
But the rallies and demonstrations taking place on a handful of campuses across the country in recent weeks have familiar echoes. They're also testing the new rules that colleges rolled out over the summer in an attempt to keep the chaos of the spring from returning.
Nationally, the process of transferring credits can saddle learners with significant added costs. To remedy this, some institutions are supporting student success through a broader acceptance of transfer credit and other practices aimed at reducing costs to students.
The result has not been a loss of tuition revenue or students who are underprepared for upper-level courses. Rather, by aligning policies with students’ interests, those institutions are reaping the benefits of greater enrollment, retention, and completion.
Middle-skills workers provide essential services and potentially earn high salaries, but a new report addresses impending shortages.
The study, from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, compares the number of credentials currently being produced with the number of job openings projected to exist in 2032. CEW also has an online tool to help regional planners and middle-skills providers craft solutions to the anticipated shortage.
For undocumented students like Jeffry Umaña Muñoz, the passage of Assembly Bill 2586 offers a life-changing opportunity to secure a campus job at one of California's public higher education systems.
But the bill, which would allow the state's higher education systems to hire him and nearly 55,000 other undocumented college students, is raising concerns that schools could run afoul of a federal law barring employers from hiring undocumented people—putting at risk their students, their employees who hire them, and billions of dollars in federal funding.
Many skilled trade jobs are high-paying, unionized jobs, yet less than five percent of skilled trade workers are women. While their numbers are growing, they’re not growing fast enough. That’s why organizations around the country are actively recruiting and training women to fill in-demand jobs.
In this interview, several women describe their passion for the skilled trades—and what it takes to land these jobs.
