Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
President-elect Donald Trump is nominating billionaire professional wrestling magnate Linda McMahon, 76, to lead the U.S. Department of Education, overseeing an agency that Trump repeatedly promised to eliminate on the campaign trail.
McMahon is a longtime Trump ally, serving as director of the Small Business Administration during his initial term from 2017 to 2019. She's also the board chair of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank that was formed in 2021 by McMahon, Larry Kudlow, and other advisors from the first Trump administration.
The re-election of Donald Trump has been a seismic event for the United States and for the world. Its consequences will be felt everywhere—including on college campuses, which have become fraught symbols of the anger, hyperpolarization, and fear characterizing American politics today.
In this interview, eight thought leaders reveal what to make of the 2024 presidential election—and why a second Trump term might permanently alter the future of higher education.
Several leading universities recently released enrollment data on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision gutting affirmative action. As many critics predicted, the reports show a dramatic decline in the enrollment of Black and Latino students in these institutions.
So how can elite universities maintain a diverse student body in a post-affirmative-action world? David Kirp, a professor emeritus at the Goldman School of Public Policy and author of “The College Dropout Scandal,” offers what he says is one promising approach: recruit community college graduates.
For most of the history of higher education, tasks such as grading papers, giving lectures, and providing students with feedback were considered a big part of a professor's job. But what if a machine could do it all?
Today, new technologies are transforming the delivery of educational content and altering the student-professor relationship on college campuses across the country.
Stephen Richards received a letter in May from the Biden administration promising to cancel his $79,000 in student debt. Months later, he’s still waiting for the loans to disappear—and Donald Trump’s election win has made the situation feel more urgent.
There are tens of thousands of borrowers like Richards who are in the process of receiving student-loan relief and are waiting anxiously for their cancellation to go through in the waning days of Biden’s time in office. Trump hasn’t said much about his plans for student debt, but if his first term is any indication, borrowers will likely be battling his administration’s officials for debt cancellation.
Recent enrollment decreases have hit regional public universities harder than most colleges. But there are exceptions, including Montclair State University in New Jersey.
On this episode of Future U, Montclair's Jonathan Koppell explores the details behind his school's enrollment success, its programs for underserved students, and what he and others are doing to improve degree attainment for men of color in particular.
