TALENT DEVELOPMENT

We’re short of skilled workers – so train more of them instead of relying on tax breaks for development

Instead of spending $50 billion on tax incentives to lure businesses to their communities, state and local governments would be better off allocating at least half of that money for job training.

TRANSPARENT CREDENTIALS

Lumina podcast: Time to recognize lessons learned in the military

Veterans leave the military with training and skills that can be incredibly useful in the civilian world. But many find that when they enroll in higher education, they get little or no credit for what they’ve learned.

EQUITY

Urban League's Marc Morial: Good jobs critical in erasing effects of discrimination

To help people learn the skills they need to get better jobs and move up the economic ladder, community-based workforce providers are as important as community colleges and four-year colleges.

AFFORDABILITY

Free college? We need to fix the root problems with college affordability

A redesign of the American post-high school education system needs to start with a fresh look at how work and learning can be integrated.

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

Lumina Podcast – Pop culture can promote diversity, post-high school learning

In past episodes of the Lumina Foundation podcast “Today’s Students/Tomorrow’s Talent,” we’ve talked about learning at the system level. Episode 12 gets inside the classroom for a discussion of the connection between teaching and learning.

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

Death of the entry-level job? No way, if major firms have anything to say about it.

As my colleague Haley Glover likes to point out, business is the largest consumer of education and has the most at stake when it comes to having a well-educated workforce. So what are corporations doing to educate workers?

TODAY'S STUDENT

College today: More students are older, working, supporting others

We talk about college affordability a lot these days, but the challenges for some students go beyond just money: Forty percent work full time and one fourth have children or other dependents.

TODAY'S STUDENT

Podcast: Students, faculty, staff all feel the pain in college closures

Laura De Veau had been with Mount Ida College for 10 years—first as director of residence life, then later as vice president for student affairs—when the Newton, Massachusetts, school announced on April 6, 2018, that it would be closing down six weeks later.

Podcast: Students feel the pain when for-profit colleges close

Closing a college should be relatively easy—painful and emotional, yes, but it can be done responsibly. Yet often, especially in the world of for-profit schools, it’s not.