Daily Lumina News 082421

Before the pandemic, Daniel Goldberg missed countless classes because of a painful, chronic medical condition. But over the past academic year, he didn’t miss a single class—and he says he's become a better student as a result.
Although many college students have struggled with remote learning over the last year, some with disabilities found it to be a lifeline. As the fall semester approaches, those students are pushing for remote accommodations to continue, even as in-person classes resume.

People with a criminal record already face significant barriers to employment: On average, a state has 56 occupational and 43 business licensing laws that prohibit hiring people with records.
Racial inequities only compound the barriers faced by formerly incarcerated Black and Latino workers. A new report lays out a scalable workforce development plan to help.

Rental trucks in the parking lots; joyful hugs as students find old friends; a crowd in the campus store as families stock up on Husker gear: It's move-in week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The sprawling university of about 20,000 undergraduates, nestled in the Great Plains, was hoping—like many colleges—for a normal fall semester. But as millions of college students descend on campuses throughout the United States, the Delta variant is raging, raising questions about how to pull this off without outbreaks.

Members of the high school class of 2021—whose entire senior year was marred by a global pandemic—are mentally exhausted but optimistic about their first year of college, according to new data on students entering college this fall.
The new survey includes pandemic-related questions to capture how COVID altered students’ lives and fueled concerns about their future, health and safety, and ability to socialize. As classes get underway at colleges across the nation, the data provide insight about students’ hopes for their first year of college and the impact COVID has had on their mental health.