Top Higher Education News for Monday
Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Erin O'Toole and Brad Turner, KUNC SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Every day, millions of college students struggle with getting enough nutritious food to eat. On-campus food pantries and mobile markets that provide free food can help, especially at a time when inflation is driving up food prices and state officials want to make college more accessible to students from various income levels. Reporter Jason Gonzales of Chalkbeat Colorado recently covered the growing issue of student hunger after spending time at a mobile market on the Community College of Aurora campus. He talks about what he learned on this podcast. |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Despite making up a significant number of today's learners, student parents are often a hidden population—due in part to institutional policies that make colleges unwelcoming to parenting students and an internalized shame around being a caregiver. How can college leaders promote belonging and success among student parents? Student advocacy experts weigh in. |
| Megan Zahneis, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn For months, faculty members at the University of Kentucky have criticized what they see as an attempt by administrators to strip them of power. Now, some are worried they’ll be retaliated against for opposing those changes. The conflict illustrates the deteriorating state of the faculty-administration relationship at the university since the decision was made to reform its shared-governance model. The move has also ramped up fears regarding the chilling of faculty members’ speech about their own institution. |
| Julia Barajas and Annie Rupertus, LAist SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn In the first few hours of Tyler Thompson’s internship this summer, she's learning how elementary school students can be taught to appreciate nature in urban communities. Across town, Diane Genabe starts her internship by poring over a stack of sketchpads, books, and colorful animal postcards. The climate-centered internships are courtesy of West Los Angeles College’s federally funded climate internship program, an effort for students who may not be majoring in science but who share an interest in caring for the planet. |
| Amy Morona, Signal Cleveland SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Kent State University’s main campus sits on nearly 1,000 acres, enrolls about 25,530 students, and employs nearly 4,400 full-time workers. But despite the robust footprint in Northeast Ohio, the school is looking to go beyond state lines to help secure its future. To do that, school leaders are doubling down on their national recruitment and brand awareness efforts. |
| Jon Marcus and Kirk Carapezza, College Uncovered SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Following intense, sometimes violent protests on campuses, colleges and universities are taking steps to encourage better and more civil dialogue and debate among students who disagree. Some schools are offering new guidance and coursework around how students should speak to one another. They’re also tightening restrictions on campus protests and cracking down on protest tactics with heightened enforcement. Experts talk about these and other approaches to help students speak across their differences in this interview. |
| Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed |
| Bruno V. Manno, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute |
| Michael Trucano and Sopiko Beriashvili, Brookings Institution |
| Anne Kress, The Gazette Leader |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY |
| Shauneen Miranda, Maine Morning Star |
| Korie Dean, The News & Observer |
| Mathew Miranda, The Sacramento Bee |
| Brooklyn Draisey, News From the States |
| Mike Muñoz and Kathaleen Acosta, Community College Daily |
| Walter Hudson, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Gary Robbins, The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed |
| Montserrat Fuentes, Austin American-Statesman |
| Blake R. Silver, The Conversation |
| American Council on Education |
| National Center for Education Statistics |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Community College Research Center |
| National Consumer Law Center and New America |
| Complete College America On the Air |
| Illumination by Modern Campus |
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