Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
Workforce development boards play an integral role in local communities, serving as a link between a region's workforce talent and its employers' skill needs.
In this interview, Brad Turner-Little of the National Association of Workforce Boards discusses the challenges and opportunities currently facing today's workforce boards, as well as the importance of collaboration between business, education, and community partners in driving economic vitality and creating pathways to opportunity for all.
One of the country’s richest nonprofits focused on online education has been giving out grants for more than a year. But so far, the group, known as Axim Collaborative, has done so slowly—and with little fanfare.
The group was formed with the money made when Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sold their edX online platform to for-profit company 2U in 2021 for about $800 million. So what is Axim investing in? And what are its future plans?
In his six years chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Dan Greenstein took a bold—and sometimes controversial—approach to repairing a public university system in a downward spiral.
Since announcing his resignation in July, many have lauded Greenstein as a change agent who did the hard but necessary work to improve the system’s financial prospects and foster a sustainable partnership with the state’s politically divided government. Others argue that he buckled to political pressures at the expense of students, staff, and universities’ surrounding rural communities.
Alpena Community College is located on the shores of Lake Huron in the small town of Alpena, Michigan, population 10,000. It seems like a typical, rural community college at first glance, but Alpena is extraordinary: 66 percent of its students are still in high school, the highest rate in Michigan.
While high school students are an important group to serve well, this enrollment makeup could spell trouble for the college’s budget and its ability to serve adults in the community.
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions, the expectation—based on statistical modeling presented in court—was that the proportion of Black students at highly selective schools would go down and the proportion of Asian American students would rise.
That's exactly what happened at some colleges and universities. But as more schools release their racial demographic data, there are some striking outliers.
Many students are heading to college this academic year with no idea how they'll pay for it. The challenging rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid is the root of their predicament. In a cruel irony, many of the students who’ve experienced the worst problems with the FAFSA are the same ones who need the most help accessing college.
This episode of College Matters delves into how the government's retooled FAFSA form is affecting vulnerable students at a crucial time—and why it's causing some families to rethink their college plans.
