Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring.
While the summer break provided a respite in student demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war, it also gave both student protesters and higher education officials a chance to regroup and strategize for the fall semester.
In the fall of 2023, six of the eight Ivy League universities had women as presidents. It was a milestone signaling that perhaps higher education’s glass ceiling was beginning to crack. Today, however, most of those individuals have resigned. Three of the women were replaced by white men.
Experts on college leadership say the resignations are a frustrating sign that efforts to create more gender and racial equity at the top have taken a step backward. Women make up just 29 percent of presidents at research universities and 33 percent of presidents across all of higher education.
Doubts about the work readiness of college graduates run rampant in the United States. These work readiness questions, coupled with rising costs and growing college alternatives, continue to contribute to declines in both enrollment and public confidence.
But with a clear evidence base behind "what works" toward improving graduates' work readiness, higher education institutions can and should create intentional and tangible plans to turn the confidence tide, writes education and workforce expert Brandon Busteed in this perspective piece.
Roughly two-thirds of colleges are making it a priority to create virtual versions of on-campus classes and programs, according to an annual survey of chief online learning officers.
College officials likely see creating online versions of existing programs as easier than launching entirely new academic programs, according to the ninth "Changing Landscape of Online Education" report from Eduventures Research, Quality Matters, and Educause.
The two largest community colleges in North Texas—Dallas College and Tarrant County College—are joining forces to prepare students for the record number of available jobs in the region.
Officials from the colleges listed potential activities for the partnership, including economic development centers for emerging technologies, a healthcare consortium to coordinate clinical training needs for medical professionals, and seamless pathways for TCC students to transfer to Dallas College for a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education.
Prior to joining Ithaka S+R as the new principal of justice initiatives, Tommaso Bardelli co-founded the Prison Education Program Research Lab at NYU and led research and popular education initiatives at Worth Rises.
In this interview, Bardelli reflects on his past experience in the higher education-in-prison space, challenges and opportunities in the field, and the future of that work.
