Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is on a mission to redefine itself from the oil capital of the world to a tech hub in the heartland of America. And it's well on its way.
Several key players in the tech hub movement discuss what it takes to make Tulsa the next economic growth hot spot.
Before the pandemic, Hispanic-student enrollment was on the upswing for about two decades. Now, the number of Hispanic students enrolled at colleges has fallen by 7 percent.
But there are ways to reverse this change. College leaders from across the country offer strategies to win back Hispanic students.
Donise Keller has made many sacrifices over the past 20 years as a child-care provider. She puts in 12-hour days. She gets by on less than $20,000 a year. Still, she has rarely questioned her calling.
Her struggles are typical of child-care workers, predominantly women of color, who have long been among the lowest-paid workers in the country, experts say.
Last month, when the student lending giant Navient reached a deal with 39 states to wipe away $1.7 billion in private student loan debts, Victoria Linssen felt hopeful.
Then she read the fine print: People like her who made their payments on time were disqualified from the relief.
The Carnegie Classifications are an enduring institution in higher education—but they’re about to undergo a facelift that could be dramatic.
This episode of The Key explores those changes and how a new partnership plans to add a significant focus on whether and how much colleges and universities contribute to social mobility and racial equity.
Like millions of Americans, Emmy Ross has a serious amount of student loan debt. So when she started getting phone calls from people offering help, she was immediately interested.
The problem? They were scammers asking for things such as her account details or credit card number.
