Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
Beginning today, oral arguments before the Supreme Court will provide a dramatic setting for the national debate over the fairness of race-conscious admissions in higher education.
But the drama is not so much in what we will hear. In both cases, the parties have laid out their arguments already. Lines are drawn across society, too. For many, the real issue is how we can fairly address historic inequities in higher education no matter how the court rules.
The U.S. News & World Report rankings have become a bit of a behemoth in American higher ed following their introduction in 1983. But not everyone agrees with their methodology, with many arguing they put prestige over quality.
Paul Glastris is the editor in chief of the Washington Monthly. On this episode of The Higher Ed Spotlight, he discusses his publication's alternative college ranking system in which the focus is on student mobility, research, and civic engagement.
James S. Murphy, a senior policy analyst at Education Reform Now, brings his researcher’s chops and writer’s voice to a longstanding debate: Is it right for colleges to give children of alumni a leg up in the admissions process?
In this interview, Murphy talks about his research, the grip of aristocratic traditions on college admissions, and the intricacies of what he calls “a shameful practice.”
As the countdown to the midterm elections crosses the two-week mark, college students are poised to make a difference at the ballot box. With control of the House, Senate, and 36 governorships up for grabs, students could play a decisive role in many races.
In a dimly lit, narrow trailer in Wilsonville, a handful of women sit in large moving chairs, with their hands on gear shifts and their feet on pedals. They’re operating virtual heavy equipment machines like bulldozers and excavators, but it’s not a video game.
The women are getting the chance to earn job certifications and access resources to assist them in finding work once they're released from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility—Oregon’s only women’s prison.
With federal courts jostling over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, its future hangs in limbo—affecting thousands of recipients in Charlotte and across North Carolina.
For Marisela Ceniceros, a Charlotte mother of two DACA recipients, a new worry is now front and center—how a potential reversal could affect families like hers.
