Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
In recent weeks, a steady stream of highly selective colleges have reported significant declines in first-time Black student enrollment, a drop most institutions are pinning on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 affirmative action ban.
But one college’s challenge is another’s opportunity: Historically Black Colleges and Universities appear to be benefiting from a windfall of applicants and new students this fall. Can the perennially underfunded institutions handle the influx?
Today's students are coming to college woefully unprepared, professors say. Members of Gen Z, born in the iPhone age, lack fundamental reading and writing skills, as well as the endurance to read long passages. Some students are questioning the point of learning at all.
What's going on? And what can professors do? Veteran higher education reporter Beth McMurtrie weighs in.
In work and in his personal life, Manny Rodriguez remains inspired by the words of his father, who would often repeat the phrase: “Cada generación tiene la responsabilidad de darle un mejor comienzo a la próxima generación.” It means that every generation has a responsibility to give the next generation a better start, Rodriguez explains.
Rodriguez is doing just that as director of policy and advocacy at The Institute for College Access and Success, where he fights for an education system that equitably supports and uplifts students from diverse backgrounds.
Wayne State University has spent the last dozen years building an exhaustive support network for students. Administrators credit that infrastructure for quadrupling the share of Black students completing their degrees. The approach has been praised and replicated nationwide.
But in 2023, something unexpected happened: The six-year graduation rate for Black students at Wayne State fell eight percentage points—20 percent—in a single year.
On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has depicted the nation’s public schools as purveyors of an extreme ideology on gender and race. One of his proposed remedies is to shut down the federal U.S. Department of Education, founded in 1979.
Lost in the back and forth over this relatively small federal agency is any discussion of what the department actually does—and what the practical impact would be of shuttering it (if that is even possible).
After a summer of watching history book-making events unfold, political science professors were eager to get back in the classroom.
In this interview, two Maryland professors discuss their approach to teaching politics and engaging young voters during an exceptionally contentious election year.
