Higher education is a shared responsibility for colleges and universities, governments, and students and their families, says Lumina Foundation's Michelle Asha Cooper.

In this interview, Asha Cooper discusses the challenges and opportunities in getting more students—especially students of color, adult learners, and low-income students—to and through college.

Photo: Amanda J. Cain

When colleges and boot camps team up, the colleges typically just put their name on the programs while the boot camp companies recruit students, develop curricula, and teach classes. 

Such arrangements are quietly proliferating with few, if any, quality controls or assurances in place to protect students. At least 75 such partnerships exist between colleges and three of the country’s top boot camp provider companies: edX, ThriveDX, and Fullstack Academy.

Photo: Mike Stocker

A professor of English at Palm Beach Atlantic University had his contract terminated last week after a parent complained to the university president about a racial-justice unit in his course.

Samuel Joeckel’s termination comes amid a flurry of legislative action in Florida that seeks to limit, at the state’s public institutions, the study of race, gender, and the causes of inequality. And while Palm Beach Atlantic’s status as a private university exempts it from such legislation, Joeckel says his termination is a product of the political environment.