Daily Lumina News 050523

A former teen mother who put herself through college with her three-month-old daughter in tow, Nicole Lynn Lewis now works every day to open doors to higher education for student parents.
In this interview, Lewis describes how the organization she founded, Generation Hope, is expanding its work nationally to help colleges and policymakers better meet the needs of the nearly 4 million parenting students who are working toward their degrees.

As Temple University's 12th president, Jason Wingard cast himself as a higher-education reformer, someone committed to making college a place less focused on pure scholarship and more concerned with training students for a new and often uncertain labor market.
But after less than two years on the job, Temple's first Black president is gone.

As a first-generation student entering Olive-Harvey College at the height of the pandemic, Stephanie Meeks needed all the support she could find. Meeks got lucky, learning about the One Million Degrees program from a high school guidance counselor.
Now, students don’t have to rely on luck to secure the resources and wraparound supports that Meeks had. Through a partnership between the nonprofit and the City Colleges of Chicago, new and re-enrolling degree-seeking students will be automatically accepted into the OMD program.

A growing movement is taking place on college campuses across the country to create programs that teach what proponents see as the vanishing art of civil discourse.
The efforts are varied and evolving, but the idea focuses on teaching a skill that many say is essential to democracy—and all too rare.

A recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center says the population of students who stopped out of college without completing grew by 1.4 million learners between July 2020 and July 2021, an increase of 3.6 percent compared to the previous year.
The University of Miami is taking steps to entice these learners back to school through a comprehensive program that includes a financial incentive and personalized support. So far, results are promising.

Over the past decade, higher education has faced steep declines in enrollment at all but the most competitive of colleges. Driven by myriad forces, students are enrolling at rates that worry college administrators across the nation.
Immigrant origin students—those with at least one parent born outside of the United States—provide a demographic beacon of hope that has largely gone unrecognized. It’s time to take stock of their demographic significance and the human capital they bring, write two educators in this op-ed.