Daily Lumina News 122021

Three in five college students experience some form of basic needs insecurity. The good news: Many of those students qualify for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Plan (SNAP). The bad news: Only about 43 percent of likely eligible students access SNAP.
A new guide offers promising solutions to help colleges increase SNAP participation on their campuses.

Flo Parra has always been interested in health care since doing a high school internship at a hospital. Propel America gave her the opportunity and support to turn a passion into a career.
The group helps young people like Parra get ready to work in a matter of months by guiding them to professional credentials while earning college credit.

Higher education institutions seeking cybersecurity insurance today are not unlike homeowners living on the water in a hurricane-prone coastal community: the riskier the environment, the harder it is to get insured.
Ransomware attacks are skyrocketing for both community colleges and four-year institutions, leading many schools to discover that they can’t afford cyberinsurance—or even get it.

As colleges work to eliminate equity gaps, one prominent blind spot concerns the needs of student-parents.
Nicole Lynn Lewis, founder and CEO of Generation Hope, talks about the experiences of student-parents, their unmet needs, and what colleges and universities can do to help them make it to the graduation stage.

For immigrant students like Lien Tang, who studies at the City Colleges of Chicago’s Truman College, countless hurdles make the novel experience of online learning during a pandemic even more challenging.
Many of these students take on additional work hours to support their families, all the while struggling with technology issues and speaking limited English.

"Pivot" became the word of the year for colleges and universities in 2021, as institutions across the country continued to respond to changes brought on by COVID-19.
In a new report from New America, 24 college and university presidents and administrators reflect on how the pandemic affected virtually every facet of higher education.