Daily Lumina News 092523

Members of the Ohio National Guard already have access to full college scholarships, but many still don’t graduate. Only about 19 percent have a bachelor’s degree.
Getting through college as an adult can be challenging, even without National Guard responsibilities. A new program aims to help by providing Ohio National Guard members who live in or attend college in Cuyahoga County up to four years of free college coaching.

As more community colleges announce their fall enrollments, some are seeing a reversal of recent downward trends. College leaders credit the enrollment boost to improved student services, more wraparound supports, and additional programs in career and technical education. Dual enrollment is playing a role in the equation, too.
And while the focus is still on getting students in the door, college leaders are also well aware of the other challenge: keeping them.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities around the nation upended decades of law and the higher education landscape. The ruling will shift the makeup of many of America’s top universities, as well as the prospects of students who want to attend them.
In this interview, teenagers weigh in with their thoughts on whether race should be considered when colleges decide which applicants to admit.

After serving in the U.S. Army for six years, Patricia Pfeiffer graduated from Wayne Community College in 1988 with an associate degree in nursing. In 1994, Pfeiffer began her career at the college as a nursing instructor. And in 2022, after holding several college leadership roles, she became the school's president.
Pfeiffer believes her story is one of many that showcases the opportunity community colleges have to change lives, particularly in rural parts of the state like Wayne County. But more resources are needed to make that happen, say education watchers.

Chris Dennis, an associate professor of supply chain management at Columbus State Community College, clicked through his PowerPoint slides to a promotional video of gas distribution systems and pressed play. He isn't trying to sell his class on anything. Rather, he wants them to be prepared.
Dennis is one of several professors teaching the first official cohort of Columbus State students who hope to land jobs at Intel's $20-billion microchip manufacturing plants in Licking County.

Sian Leah Beilock is a cognitive scientist. She's also the new president of Dartmouth College, the first woman to hold that position since the school's founding in 1769.
An expert in, among other things, the effect of stress on academic performance, she is starting her tenure by putting health and wellness at the center of her leadership agenda with a focus on the country’s youth mental health crisis.