Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
It’s been 14 months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill cases, and until now college leaders and observers have only been able to guess at the ruling’s impact on their campuses’ racial diversity.
That impact is finally becoming clearer. And the results are decidedly mixed.
In 2018, Duke University stopped honoring roommate requests from incoming freshmen in an effort to help students meet people from different backgrounds and with varied perspectives. An uproar soon followed. But in the end, the rollout went off largely without a hitch.
Now new research suggests that Duke’s random-roommate policy could be a viable strategy for colleges to encourage interactions between students from different racial backgrounds.
In a state full of rural, tucked away corners, Lincoln County is one of Montana’s most rural and tucked away. The area is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation, and economic struggle.
These days, however, Lincoln County is breaking free of dependence on extractive industries. And at the center of this new future is a local community college.
Dax Vandevoorde, a math and robotics whiz at her New Jersey high school, wanted a college that was strong in the STEM fields—but not one where science-focused women were oddities.
Vandevoorde found what she was looking for at Agnes Scott College, a private all-women’s institution with an innovative, globally focused curriculum that blends the traditional liberal arts with foreign travel, real-world business experience, and leadership training. Watch this video to learn more.
Fall term usually signals a fresh start on college campuses. But continued campus protests and the related resignation of another president in the past month are reminders of how tough the spring semester was.
Add enrollment and financial aid processing concerns, and you get a sense of the issues that some schools—and students and families—may contend with in the coming year.
Much has been made in recent years about stark drops in college enrollments and declining public trust in higher education. While many headlines may paint a grim picture of higher education in America, there’s one area of postsecondary education experiencing robust and rapid growth: dual enrollment.
Perhaps the most highly-touted benefit of dual enrollment is its ability to save students time and money. But the extent to which it actually does so can vary considerably and depends on program design, number of credits earned, and college choice.
