Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Declan Bradley, Sarah Brown, Amanda Friedman, Garrett Shanley, and Andy Thomason, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Former President Donald J. Trump appeared poised to retake the Oval Office early Wednesday, a possibility sure to stir panic throughout much of higher education. The Republican candidate campaigned on promises to wield the executive branch more aggressively against people and institutions doing things he doesn’t like, including colleges. Early Wednesday, the Associated Press called victories for Trump in three of the seven key swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris with virtually no path to 270 electoral votes. |
| Ramona Schindelheim, WorkingNation
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn A small company in Medford, Oregon, is making a name for itself—expanding and creating jobs—as the United States ramps up to claim a bigger share of the global chip manufacturing industry. Rogue Valley Microdevices is the first woman-owned, minority-owned business to be awarded millions in CHIPS Act funding. Its founder and CEO, Jessica Gomez, is determined to attract women and people of color to these new jobs, using herself as proof that a career in this industry is more accessible than many people may believe. |
| Anne Kim, The Chronicle Review SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Fifteen years ago, a broad coalition of foundations, nonprofits, and educators launched a bold effort to reform the vast system of college remedial education that was destroying the higher-education opportunities of millions of students. Today, this work remains unfinished—the victim of inertia, lack of resources, and competing priorities. Yet it is more important than ever to reinvigorate reform, and there are clear steps campuses can take to break the logjam. |
| Adam Tamburin, Axios SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn It has been a record year for Tennessee Promise, Tennessee's scholarship that sends students to community or technical college tuition-free. A total of 67,593 high school seniors applied to participate in the program this year, setting a new high water mark for the effort. At this time last year, 66,939 students had applied. Tennessee launched its program in 2015, making it the first statewide scholarship of its kind for community and technical colleges. The effort quickly became part of a national movement on college access and affordability, with more than 30 states now offering a version of tuition-free community college. |
| Daniel Braun, Michael Fried, and Emily Schwartz, Ithaka S+R SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn As Veteran’s Day approaches, there is renewed attention paid to those individuals who have served in our nation’s military and to the ways our nation repays that service. Many military service members often cite education benefits as one of their primary motivations for joining the military. However, once they leave the service, many veterans are not making best use of those benefits due to "undermatching," whereby students attend institutions where they are far less likely to graduate. |
| Amanda Albright and Lily Meier, Bloomberg SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Scores of small, often little-known private colleges across the United States are facing a harsh new reality: selling off prized assets, such as housing complexes, presidential mansions, apartments, and even some paintings, in order to receive an injection of cash and, for the most vulnerable, stave off financial collapse. Squeezed by a steady decline in the national birth rate that’s shrinking the pool of college applicants, the schools are struggling to fill classrooms and cover costs. Not all sales indicate a school is in financial distress, but it’s telling that schools are taking stock of what they can sell. |
| Kyle Pfannenstiel, Idaho Capital Sun |
| Jennifer Williams, Business Alabama Magazine |
| Madeline Patton, Community College Daily |
| Karen Klein, Los Angeles Times |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY |
| J. Brian Charles, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Trimmel Gomes, Public News Service |
| Alex Daniels, The Chronicle of Philanthropy |
| Christopher Kerosky, La Prensa Sonoma |
| Torrance Johnson, Chalkbeat Detroit |
| Maddie Aiken, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle |
| Mallika Seshadri, EdSource |
| Ben Wildavsky and Richard Whitmire, Inside Higher Ed |
| Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive |
| Mike Vogel, Florida Trend |
| Jessica Fu, The Seattle Times |
| Jayla Moody Marshall, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Ayelet Sheffey, Business Insider |
| Center for American Progress |
| American Association of Community Colleges and the TIAA Institute |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
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