Daily Lumina News 011420

Students from liberal-arts colleges don’t merely recoup their tuition dollars in the long run. They eventually earn more than those who attended trade or business schools, a new report shows.
The return on investment (ROI) from a liberal-arts education skyrockets as people’s careers progress, says the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce study. Forty years after enrolling, a graduate of one of the 210 liberal-arts colleges analyzed for the report will have a median ROI that is nearly $200,000 above that of all U.S. colleges.

Destination Cleveland, the region’s tourism agency, is taking on a new task with an ambitious, long-term goal: boost the city’s appeal to high-value job candidates.
The effort comes as communities across the United States find themselves in a battle for a well-educated, well-trained workforce. Many cities and states are launching campaigns to lure qualified workers—some are even offering to pay employees to come.

Far too many young people in rural parts of the country struggle to find higher education opportunities that align with the needs of businesses in their local communities. A just-introduced bipartisan Senate bill hopes to change that.
The Success for Rural Students and Communities Act is designed to encourage groups and organizations in rural communities to partner together to expose students to various career pathways. It also would provide information on student aid to students, many of whom are first in their families to attend college.
Meanwhile, employers will help determine the credentials—a college degree, skilled trade credential, or professional certificate—that local students need to land jobs.

Florida community colleges are seeing some positive results from a state law enacted in 2013 that upended developmental education.
Those results, however, came after colleges undertook massive efforts to implement the law: They redesigned courses, shifted resources and staff, trained faculty, and hired more advisors.