Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Ava Kian, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn This year, Minnesota has wiped out tuition bills for thousands of students applying to its public colleges. But big costs remain for some families. That’s because affording college requires paying for more than just tuition. North Star Promise, the state’s new free-tuition program for families earning less than $80,000 a year, is advancing in making college less expensive for low- and middle-income families. However, some students are discovering firsthand that this does not automatically make college more affordable. |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Across higher education, colleges, universities, and other organizations are piloting initiatives to help students stay enrolled and ultimately earn a credential or degree. But what does the research say works best? A recent project from the Brookings Institution investigates two decades of data on interventions for college access and completion, finding three types of programs that can create change in institutional student success metrics: comprehensive programs, personalized advising, and low-touch information sharing. |
| Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Joey Cook was 17 and a junior in high school when he heard about a way to learn a profession while getting paid: by landing an apprenticeship. But there was one problem: If he wanted an apprenticeship, he’d have to find it himself. Cook got lucky. A local HVAC company happened to be looking for apprentices and hired him. But his experience spotlights a big hitch in the movement for apprenticeships, even as they’re being pushed by policymakers and politicians of all stripes and expanded beyond the trades to jobs in tech and other industries: Demand for apprenticeships is outpacing their availability. |
| Ayesha Roscoe, NPR SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn College students are wrapping up their finals, and many are getting ready to leave campus for winter vacation. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, that's a nearly six-week break. But with the second Trump administration set to begin in a few weeks, international college students are facing a difficult decision. Should they return home for winter break? And if they do, should they fly back to the United States before the inauguration? New England Public Media's Jill Kaufman explains more in this interview. |
| Amari Henderson, Diverse Issues in Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Social media has become a battlefield of ideas, a forum for activism, and, increasingly, a source of stress for students of color. In the current political climate, where debates over systemic racism, diversity programs, and the state of free speech dominate on a national scale, these platforms can either empower or hinder the success and outcomes of students, writes Amari Henderson, a doctoral student at Howard University, in this perspective piece. |
| Adam Echelman, CalMatters SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn More than seven million adults in California lack a college degree—and they typically make less money as a result. This week, standing in a welding classroom at Shasta College, a community college in Redding, Gov. Gavin Newsom presented an outline on how he plans to change that trajectory. One component of his new plan focuses on translating students’ work experience into college credits. It’s already a priority for California’s 116 community colleges, which have a goal to provide at least 250,000 students with college credits for certain kinds of work experience. |
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| Paige Gross, Alabama Reflector |
| Clare Doyle, American Council of Trustees and Alumni |
| Kerry Shackett and Patricia Boera, The Conversation |
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| Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed |
| Anthony Kuipers, Moscow-Pullman Daily News |
| Ray Carter, The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs |
| Courtney Pedersen, The Beaumont Enterprise |
| Carrie Healy, New England Public Media |
| Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed |
| Michael Adkison, CBS Austin |
| André Salkin, The Santa Fe New Mexican |
| Mark Bauerlein and Scott Yenor, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| American Enterprise Institute |
| American Council on Education |
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