Daily Lumina News 011020

Miguel Ortiz-Cruz was a junior at North Carolina State University when Hurricane Florence hit. Three years earlier, he had come to college on a full-ride scholarship. A year later, he planned to graduate with a degree in graphic communications. But now he had to figure out how to maintain his education while his family had been left homeless.
Mary Haskett, a psychology professor at North Carolina State, isn't surprised by the number of students struggling with food or housing instability at her institution. A new collaborative effort aims to help.

Digital credentialing has become a key force in upskilling employees before their skills become irrelevant.
In this interview, Kathleen deLaski of Education Design Lab discusses the value of digital credentials, the impact they have on society, and the challenges facing their broad proliferation.

Colleges are the pipeline to good jobs and the middle class, yet for many students of color and students from low-income backgrounds, a higher education degree remains out of reach. High college costs are a major factor, but a lack of access to advanced courses is another all-too-common barrier.
A new report examines these inequities—and potential solutions for change.

In a time when the college admission process seems fraught with mystery, anxiety, and competitiveness, two authors on the subject balance the why with the how.
On this episode of The Exchange, Brennan Barnard and Rick Clark guide students and families through the deeper questions of why they want to go to college and what they hope to achieve.