Top Higher Education News for Thursday
Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, LAist SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn For three years, college students and scholars in California penned their hopes on opening the financial and educational opportunity of jobs for undocumented students. Their hopes have now turned to fear and disappointment following a decision this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto Assembly Bill 2586. Jeffry Umaña Muñoz and other student activists say their work is not over—and that their Opportunity for All campaign will continue to challenge the employment barriers faced by undocumented individuals. |
| Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Beth Maglione couldn’t have chosen a more fraught moment to take up the helm of the nation’s largest advocacy organization for financial aid professionals. Named interim president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators in June, Maglione assumes the top role at a time of heightened scrutiny of the financial aid system and historic disillusionment with the rising cost of college. |
| Matthew Dembicki, Community College Daily SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn As of 2023, 541 community or technical colleges were registered apprenticeship “sponsors,” meaning they officially administered and operated apprenticeship programs. However, only 208 of these colleges had an active apprentice. That's where Apprenticeships for America (AFA), an advocacy organization working to expand apprenticeships nationally, comes in. AFA's John Colburn makes the case for tapping community colleges to scale apprenticeships in this interview. |
| Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Young voters could have a monumental impact on the 2024 presidential election. Nationwide, nearly 42 million 18-to-27-year-olds will be eligible to vote. Nearly half are people of color. Some observers say colleges have become more important than in past elections, with campuses hosting more voter-registration drives, debate watch parties, and panel discussions designed to urge students to vote. |
| Jack Stripling, College Matters SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Despite the fact that economic opportunity will increasingly favor workers with higher levels of education and training, many high school graduates are making a different choice. Lured by what they see as decent-paying jobs, they're skipping college and heading straight into the world of work. Experts say that trend has big implications for today's workforce, society, and the communities where people live and work. |
| Michael Burke, EdSource SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Many students who attend California’s community colleges have plans to transfer to a four-year university. Few will make it. Only about one in five students who entered community college between 2017 and 2019 and intended to transfer did so within four years. Rates are even lower for Black and Latino students. The reasons vary, but students often struggle to navigate what critics call a complex transfer system in California, with variations in transfer requirements across the University of California and California State University systems. That could be changing. |
| Bridget Burns and Sara Custer, University Innovation Alliance |
| Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed |
| Timoria Cunningham, Indiana Public Broadcasting |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY |
| Sharon Otterman, The New York Times |
| Garrett Shanley, The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Jason L. Riley, The Wall Street Journal |
| Brian Burt, Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
| Stephen Burd, New America |
| Jerry Cornfield, Washington State Standard |
| Cole Claybourn, U.S. News & World Report |
| Keila Szpaller, Montana Free Press |
| Amy Dalrymple and Mary Steurer, Minnesota Reformer |
| Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce |
| Apprenticeships for America |
| U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| Data Quality Campaign and Strada Education Foundation |
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