Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
Universities with increasing enrollments have long struggled to accommodate every student who wants to live on campus. Short-term solutions to the issue vary, from setting students up in nearby hotels to incentivizing them to live elsewhere.
But a new solution at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is causing major backlash from the university’s resident assistants: For the first time this fall, freshmen will be assigned to temporarily bunk with RAs. They aren’t happy about it—and their roommates might not be, either.
Student engagement has become increasingly important as more learners question the value of higher education. But engaging students today is much different than it was a decade ago, meaning institutions must adapt.
Paul Shepherd of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities weighs in on the evolution of student engagement, the challenges to creating a sense of belonging, and how to make opportunities for connectivity more accessible.
Summer school is often associated with students who fell behind in their schoolwork during the regular academic year, or who failed classes and need to retake them in order to graduate.
In fact, there are many college students in good academic standing who choose to take summer school classes for various reasons, like getting ahead in their degree plan, easing their workload during the academic year, and being able to take courses at their own pace and with greater flexibility.
In 2019, hours after announcing her first presidential run, Kamala Harris held an impassioned news conference on the campus of Howard University, her alma mater and one of the highest-profile historically Black institutions. When she was inaugurated months later as the nation’s vice president, Howard’s then-president pledged the university’s “unwavering support.”
Now, Harris is the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, and in the two weeks since her announcement, Ben Vinson III, Howard’s current president, has been noticeably mute.
A new program in Massachusetts called MassEducate allows residents to attend any of the state’s 15 community colleges for free. But are community colleges ready for the potential influx of new students? And what are they doing to make sure they have the best educational experience possible?
Jonathan Jefferson of Roxbury Community College and Bristol Community College's Kate O’Hara answers those questions and more in this interview.
Renee Williams first stepped onto the campus of East Tennessee State University in 1999, at the age of 17. More than two decades later, she finished her degree.
In this essay, she shares the stops and starts of her educational journey, as well as how she persevered to cross the finish line as an adult learner.
