Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
Technology has always co-existed with agriculture but, over the last few years, there has been a concerted cross-pollination with higher education. In 2020, the National Science Foundation launched its National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, intended to boost AI research and workforce development. The effort now spans 25 institutions, with five higher education institutions tapped to focus on boosting the use of AI in agriculture.
Embracing the technology could not only boost food production but also prepare students for fast-changing jobs.
Nationally, Black students are less likely than their white peers to persist in college and earn a degree or credential. Many interventions seek to support struggling Black students, but a new program at Sacramento State University aims to celebrate Black excellence and history, recognizing Black students as scholars.
In this interview, Sac State president Luke Wood discusses his school's commitment to improve Black student success, the foundation of the Black Honors College, and a statewide bill to recognize California institutions that help Black students thrive.
Last week, the country’s first known state-level law regulating college partnerships with online-program managers went into effect.
OPMs have historically allowed colleges to quickly deliver and expand online programs—a particularly attractive prospect for institutions desperate to establish new channels of enrollment. But these arrangements, especially those where a college shares tuition revenue with the OPM, have come under fire in recent years amid reported instances of predatory and deceptive recruiting practices and low-quality programming.
In 2018, Audrey Jaeger and Monique Colclough hatched an idea: what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success?
Their idea eventually blossomed into a full program, run by and for faculty, that’s creating peer communities, meeting regional needs, and moving the needle on student retention, persistence, and graduation rates.
Vilas Dhar, president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, is widely considered a global expert on artificial intelligence, equity, and how technology is shaping society.
Dhar challenges the notion that AI will necessarily lead to job displacement, highlighting instead its potential to enhance human capabilities and create new opportunities by automating mundane or dangerous tasks, freeing up time for creativity and innovation, and improving health care and community services.
Foster youth are seldom top of mind in efforts to promote broader college access, but many would aspire to attend and have the skills to thrive there, argues Royel Johnson, a tenured professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, in his forthcoming book.
Johnson's book, “From Foster Care to College: Navigating Educational Challenges and Creating Possibilities,” features the stories of 49 current and former foster youth nationwide who have enrolled in college, often relying on the skills they gained while navigating the foster system.
