Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Siva Kumari, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn While considerable resources have been devoted to affordability initiatives over the past two decades, a college degree still remains staggeringly out of reach for many students. Financial barriers aren’t the sole reason for persistent gaps in college access and completion for students from underinvested communities; significant information deficits also play a major role, writes Siva Kumari, CEO of College Possible, in this essay. |
| Joshua Bay, The 74 SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Community college student Jennifer Toledo says earning a four-year degree is exciting, but she's had difficulty navigating the complicated higher education system as a Mexican immigrant. Benjamin Gregory, a former community college student, managed to graduate with an associate degree and transfer to a four-year school despite the challenges of enrolling as an older student. In this interview, a community college student, a transfer student, and a student who left school reveal the struggles of working for a bachelor’s degree. |
| Elise Miller McNeely, Madeline Joy Trimble, and Pooja Patel, Ithaka S+R
SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The typical postsecondary student in 2024 accumulates credits from multiple sources and attends multiple institutions before earning a credential. Nevertheless, many state, system, and institutional policies and practices have not adapted to this reality. Ithaka S+R and Complete College America are collaborating to address this challenge, working with a cohort of institutions to document the deployment of holistic credit mobility policies, practices, and technologies. |
| Liann Herder, Diverse Issues in Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Election 2024 continues to surprise. After President Joseph R. Biden dropped out of the presidential election Sunday, he quickly endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to replace him at the top of the ticket. Biden's decision created a whiplash within the Republican base. GOP leaders launched swift attacks on Harris, labeling her as a “DEI” candidate. But despite the attacks, experts agree that a Harris presidential candidacy is as groundbreaking as Biden’s late withdrawal. |
| The Hechinger Report SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project—known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump—would reshape the American education system, early education through college, from start to finish. The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less detailed Republican National Committee 2024 platform, though they share some common themes. |
| Dale Mezzacappa, Chalkbeat Philadelphia SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Sanya Sek, a straight-A student, did everything right in high school. She applied to college and even got into Bryn Mawr. But her parents, both of whom had fled the Khmer Rouge in war-torn Cambodia, could not afford college, even though they prized education. Sek then met Oscar Wang and discovered College Together, which opened a whole new set of doors for her. |
| Francie Diep, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Matthew Dembicki, Community College Daily |
| Tequilla Brownie and Ben Kutylo, The Hechinger Report |
| Adam Stone, EdTech Focus on Higher Education |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed |
| Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive |
| Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, The Washington Post |
| Amanda Wallace, NorthJersey |
| Lucy Valeski, Michigan Advance |
| MiaRose Brown, NJ Spotlight News |
| National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators |
| Lancy Downs and Morgan Polk, New America |
| Erica Meltzer and Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat |
| Lauren Coffey, Inside Higher Ed |
| Community College Research Center |
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