Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
This fall, Massachusetts is widening the halls of higher education. For the first time, all residents with a high school diploma can attend one of the state's 15 community colleges for free. Ever since Tennessee first pioneered tuition-free community college for all in 2017, it has spread rapidly. The reason: Economists say investing in public higher education yields better economic and social results than other types of workforce investments.
For people like Tyrie Daniel, tuition-free community programs offer a second chance.
The state of student mental health has been called a crisis, with many college counseling centers struggling to keep up with demand and professors feeling like they’re on the front lines of defense.
That could be changing, according to new data from the Healthy Minds Study. For the first time in 15 years, the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in college students has decreased in a consecutive year—which researchers hope marks the beginning of a downward trend.
Despite efforts by the technology industry to diversify and include more women among its ranks, closing that gender gap has a long way to go. Women make up 57.5 percent of the U.S. workforce, but only 35 percent of the tech jobs.
Break Through Tech AI wants to improve those numbers and open doors to artificial intelligence-related careers for undergraduate women from underserved backgrounds.
Students and their parents say the breakdown of civility is affecting how they choose a college. And it's gotten worse with the ongoing conflicts over campus protests, LGBTQ+ rights, and what can and can’t be taught in classrooms.
So how can students select a college where they feel they belong and where their views will be respected? Education watchers offer their thoughts on this podcast.
Stateville Correctional Center must relocate the majority of its population by the end of the month due to health and security concerns. While advocates have been waiting for the dilapidated facility to be shut down, concerns over abrupt transfers and uncertainty around the future of prison education projects in Illinois loom.
In this interview, college-in-prison advocates, social justice leaders, and professors discuss the power and pain of prison education initiatives, how educators are adjusting to Stateville’s closure, and what people can do to advocate for students behind bars.
The predictions were dire. Six years ago, during a bitterly contested trial, Harvard University leaders warned that if the school stopped considering race in admissions, it would severely compromise the diversity of its undergraduate classes.
Now, a year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the school’s admissions system, effectively ending affirmative action in college admissions everywhere, the numbers are in for the first class to be admitted, and the picture is more nuanced and complex than predicted.
.jpg?width=500&upscale=true&name=istockphoto-1476089258-612x612%20(1).jpg)
