Lumina Foundation is working to increase the share of adults in the U.S. labor force with college degrees or other credentials of value leading to economic prosperity.
The Trump administration’s efforts to penalize colleges and even individual students have pushed the entire higher education sector into a fearful stance, and accreditors expect to be among the next targets of the president’s agenda to reshape higher education.
A big question for accreditors—which act as the gatekeepers of federal financial aid and must maintain government recognition—is how far the administration will go to force them to eliminate the standards that seek to hold colleges accountable for creating diverse and welcoming campuses.
College communities in western Massachusetts and around the United States have been on edge for weeks, as federal immigration officials, without any warning, continue to revoke international student visas.
In less than a week's time, more than a dozen University of Massachusetts Amherst students who were preparing for careers in science, the humanities, and other fields saw their goals take a sudden turn when their legal status to live and study in the United States disappeared.
Many people view the Swiss apprenticeship model as the gold standard of apprenticeships. In particular, one of the most impressive features of the Swiss apprenticeship system is its permeability between academic and vocational tracks.
This podcast explores how Indiana is trying to create its own Swiss-style apprenticeship model by transforming high school graduation requirements, building industry-led talent associations, and designing scalable pathways that center real-world work experience—all with the goal of making apprenticeships a respected and rigorous route to success after high school.
Texas senators could soon vote on a bill that would drastically limit how the state's public universities teach their students about history, race, and inequality.
Senate Bill 37 would also create a way to file complaints about universities that higher education experts say could threaten their funding and result in a profound chilling effect.
Higher education professionals say today’s students are less engaged than previous classes. Many experts attribute the shift to the lack of socialization caused by COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.
To get students more plugged into campus life, some colleges and universities are creating micro-experiences in service learning that allow learners to participate in small-scale or one-day projects. Others are encouraging faculty members to hold open office hours that meet across disciplines to facilitate more interaction between students and professors.
It’s not enough for community colleges to merely have business and industry representatives on their advisory councils; institutions need to forge more profound relationships with these stakeholders. That includes having them help craft curriculum for workforce education programs.
That's one of the suggestions from higher education leaders at last week’s ASU+GSV Summit, where panelists gave advice for how two-year institutions can improve the economic mobility of their students and strengthen workforce development in communities. The initiatives discussed also may be helping to boost public perception of the value of community colleges vs. four-year institutions.
