Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
In a normal year, Nicole Whelan, a research analyst at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, can predict how much money the need-based state grant program will need far in advance of when students return to campus.
But this is not a normal year. The challenging rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid undermined projections for Minnesota’s grant program, leaving many students with hundreds or thousands of dollars less than they anticipated.
The Class of 2024 began its high school years with a deadly global pandemic closing schools and sending students online for virtual learning. Students faced many challenges, including isolation, stress, navigating social media, and applying to college.
Now, with high school behind them and the first year of college ahead, six students from the Class of 2024 reflect on where life is taking them next.
Most of the American public got its first good look at Gov. Tim Walz last week at a rally in Philadelphia alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, who had that day announced him as her running mate. At the end of his speech, the nation also got its first glimpse of the woman to whom he has been married for 30 years.
The first gubernatorial spouse in Minnesota to keep an office in the state capital, Gwen Walz regularly advises her husband and has used her platform to advance policy initiatives, most significantly around offering college degree programs to incarcerated individuals.
Since its founding in 1997, Western Governors University has billed itself as an innovator in the higher education landscape.
On this podcast, WGU's Scott Pulsipher talks about how the online university has flipped the standard postsecondary education model with a "student-obsessed" approach that includes individualized learning plans for each student.
Given that higher education is all about developing critical thinking skills and challenging assumptions, educators should welcome the increasingly tough questions about the value of college degrees.
The good news is that higher education is responding, often with the help of local businesses and other partners, to better prepare graduates for good jobs. These partnerships, once mostly seen as outliers, are now a must-have if we are to build a strong workforce for the future, writes Lumina Foundation's Jamie Merisotis in this column for Forbes.
A small Connecticut college has postponed the start of its fall semester amid a state investigation into whether it currently employs faculty members to teach its classes. On Friday, Paier College, a for-profit institution offering arts degrees and currently undergoing a sale, sent a letter to students announcing the delay.
The sudden news has left students and faculty members in a bind, unsure of what to do next.
