Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
Morgan State University is on a building spree. Cranes are busy at work across the campus skyline. The sound of beeping dump trucks fills the air. Over the last decade, the school has committed to or completed more than $600 million in capital projects.
These investments come as Morgan State experiences unprecedented growth. In the last seven years, enrollment increased 45 percent, from 6,419 undergraduate students in 2018 to 9,319 in 2024. Several other Historically Black Colleges and Universities are experiencing similar growth—and that poses new challenges.
College-educated and college-aged voters overwhelmingly favored Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, exit polls show.
The divide in the political preferences of college-educated voters and those without a college degree has grown in the last decade—a reality that concerns higher education leaders who say the gap reflects political polarization. They also believe it could fuel perceptions that colleges are out of touch with average Americans and shows a need to ensure that higher education is accessible to people from all backgrounds.
Forty years ago, an American designer and two of his friends hosted a TED talk—the first in a series of lectures about technology, education, and design at the Monterey Conference Center in California. Beginning in 1990, it became an annual event, and now it's spreading through a collection of independent programs focused on local and regional people and issues.
This year, TEDx hosted its first event at a Virginia prison where incarcerated individuals told dramatic stories of their transformation through education behind bars.
Transferring between colleges has historically been a complex, frustrating process, often involving lost credits, financial setbacks, and a lot of uncertainty for students.
Recognizing these challenges, the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education is rolling up its sleeves to smooth the transfer journey for students statewide. Through innovative partnerships, data-driven tools, and support programs for faculty, staff and students, CHE aims to help more students move from technical and community colleges to baccalaureate-granting colleges and universities—and beyond—with fewer bumps along the way.
Elaine Maimon has devoted a long career to teaching and leading in higher education with the strong belief that her efforts were serving the public good. During the 2024 presidential campaign, she says she was shocked to hear a vice-presidential candidate call people like her “the enemy.”
But today, the country has a new president-elect. And universities must learn from this moment—and remain undeterred in fulfilling their essential role in a democratic society, urges Maimon in this perspective piece on the 2024 election.
At one time, educators were concerned about the dangers of CliffsNotes—study guides that reduced great works of literature to a series of bullet points, which many students used as a substitute for actual reading. Today, that concern seems almost quaint.
Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have entered the market, capable of transforming any text, audio, or video into a simplified summary. And those summaries aren’t just a series of quippy text in bullet points. Students can now turn their lecture notes into a podcast, where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. It all adds new challenges for colleges as they attempt to set boundaries and policies for AI use in their classrooms.
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