Lumina Foundation is working to increase the share of adults in the U.S. labor force with college degrees or other credentials of value leading to economic prosperity.
Rakim D. Williams vividly remembers seventh grade. That's when his family used his older sister's work address to enroll him in a school that provided a better education than where he actually lived. Chance encounters with the right people and places would follow Williams through high school and then college as he navigated systems that were not built to help him succeed.
In this essay, Williams describes his journey through those systems and asks what higher education must do for students who fight so hard just to reach the starting line.
As institutions nationwide face enrollment declines and demographic pressures, they are increasingly looking to re-enroll adults who started college but never finished—not only to fill their coffers but also to bolster state workforce pipelines. Well over 43 million Americans have earned some college credit but never completed a degree or credential, representing a significant pool of potential students.
A new reportfrom ReUp Education outlines how states can improve efforts to re-engage them.
At Chico State in Northern California, paid student ambassadors have led efforts to create a stronger sense of belonging and community among rural students on campus, strengthened outreach to rural high school students in the university’s 12-county service region, and researched topics related to rural student success and identity.
These students are also moving the needle on some of the same broad issues facing today's higher education leaders, including rural students’ enrollment and persistence in college and the tension to stay or leave their rural hometowns after graduation.
After working for years in the pharmaceutical industry, Joseph Dominguez enjoyed the freedom to take on scientific research he found in an academic institution that had no commercial ties.
Today, Dominguez and other researchers in Chicago are mobilizing their peers to submit public comments ahead of a proposed rule they say would significantly change the country’s approach to funding science innovation and research. The Office of Management and Budget's proposal would overhaul how federal research grants are awarded. If that happens, grants could be terminated or suspended with little due process, critics warn.
Higher education isn’t an American invention, but few institutions reflect the hopes and anxieties of a remarkable democratic experiment as richly as the roughly 4,000 colleges that dot the country’s landscape.
On this episode of College Matters, the conversation celebrates the nation’s 250th birthday with a big question: What makes American higher education American?
Massive federal and private investments, spurred by artificial intelligence and federal industrial policies, are reshaping American communities and affecting education, the workforce, and the economy. However, local journalism's ability to cover these profound changes is severely declining, with a 75 percent drop in local reporting since the early 2000s. This gap leaves communities and voters left with crucial questions about how these investments are playing out in their communities.
In response, New America and the non-profit newsroom Work Shift are launching a "Future of Work Reporting Fellowship." The fellowship will fund and support local journalists to produce in-depth reports on how technological and economic shifts are unfolding in specific regions with a focus on education and training.
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