Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The president of Wesleyan University wasted no time addressing his students’ concerns about Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election. Michael Roth immediately put out a statement reflecting on the four years ahead, highlighting how the university might respond to the potential deportations of undocumented students. Roth was ready; like other longtime higher education leaders, he’s been there before. |
| Julie J. Riddle, Bridge Michigan SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The pandemic rocked the formative high school years of nearly 15 million U.S. students, known as the "COVID cohort." Staring at screens when they most needed the refining fire of in-person interactions, these now-late teens and early-20-somethings missed crucial and vital steppingstones to adulthood. And it shows, many education observers say. In response, some colleges are stepping up with college-run preparation programs, job training, and individualized wrap-around services that help fill in the gaps for today's new adults. |
| Stephanie Saul, The New York Times SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Ben Sasse was among the best-paid university presidents ever. The Nebraska senator arrived at the University of Florida in February 2023 with promises of a conservative overhaul. But then he resigned, leaving controversy and an embarrassing drop in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Like many university leaders, Sasse didn’t have much respect for the U.S. News rankings, but the university’s politically connected board of trustees very much did. |
| Kayana Szymczak and Katherine Mangan, The Different Voices of Student Success Project SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn When Kyra Johnson enrolled last year at the University of Arizona in Tucson, she was excited about experiencing life outside the Navajo reservation in Crownpoint, New Mexico, where she’d spent her childhood. But the transition to college life was harder than Johnson expected, and a sense of isolation soon took over. That changed this fall, at the beginning of Johnson's sophomore year, when she came across a table at a student-activities fair promoting the Native SOAR (Student Outreach, Access, and Resiliency) program. |
| Eric Hoover, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Ken Anselment likes to talk about admissions, the profession that threw its arms around him back in the 1990s and never let go. Anselment, a former vice president for enrollment management at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, is the host of the Admissions Leadership Podcast, which he started in 2019. Anselment is now turning his collective insights from enrollment leaders and prominent players in the admissions realm into a book. In this interview, he talks about that work, lessons in leadership, and why enrollment officials should pick up their megaphones. |
| Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn As enrollment in colleges and universities continues to decline—down by more than two million students, or 10 percent, in the 10 years ending 2022—they’re not only casting wider nets. Something else dramatic is happening to the college application process for the first time in decades. It’s becoming easier to get in. |
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| Sander van ‘t Noordende, Forbes |
| Kenji Yoshino, David Glasgow, and Christina Joseph, Harvard Business Review |
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