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.
Affordable. Flexible. Innovative. Supportive. All of these attributes describe community colleges and their work to help millions of students pursue a quality degree or credential.
Too often, however, community colleges are portrayed by the national media as inferior or as a fallback option. On this podcast, Lumina Foundation's Chauncy Lennon and Sophie Nguyen of New America address these misperceptions and talk about what some journalists, researchers, and others are doing to showcase the strength of community colleges and the immense value they provide to students and society.
At least 10 Florida public universities have struck agreements with the federal government authorizing campus police to question and detain undocumented immigrants.
Legal experts and Florida faculty members note that such agreements are rare and mark a shift away from the typical duties of a campus police department, which doesn't usually include immigration enforcement. They also raise concerns about how such arrangements could create a climate of fear on campuses.
One of Washington’s top-earning law and lobbying firms, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, has launched a new higher education task force to advise universities on how to navigate the Trump administration.
Marc Lampkin, a longtime Republican strategist, is leading the task force alongside Evan Corcoran, who previously served as Trump’s personal attorney, and Radha Mohan, a veteran tax and education lobbyist. In this conversation, they discuss the divide between higher education and politics, the biggest threats currently facing college leaders, and how universities should approach competing pressures in Washington and on their campuses.
Harvard University has drawn a line in the sand against the Trump administration and its sweeping demands for cultural change. Now, it is counting on its peer institutions for backup.
The collision between the president and America’s most iconic university had barely begun when it immediately escalated. Trump on Tuesday threatened to withdraw the university’s tax-exempt status, a move that would hit Harvard’s finances far beyond the $2.26 billion in federal cuts the Trump administration had announced Monday night after Harvard’s president said the school wouldn’t bow to a broad list of demands.
The ASU+GSV Summit convened last week in San Diego, drawing 7,000 attendees—among them ed-tech entrepreneurs, major investment firms, brokers, consultants, PR shops, tech-curious college administrators, and journalists covering workforce development, innovation, and higher education.
Disruption is often one of the main buzzwords at gatherings like this. But in conversations in hallways and in sessions about dealmaking in a turbulent education environment, the upheaval in Washington may be the biggest disruptor of all.
Many things have happened at the New College of Florida since January 2023, when Ron DeSantis, the state’s Republican governor, stacked the Board of Trustees at this tiny, sleepy, liberal-arts college with conservatives. New College, his administration believed, had become distracted by dubious social-justice aims. With a hard-charging board majority, however, the institution would reorient toward the classical tradition, attracting more students and eradicating so-called toxic wokeness in the process—or so the thinking went.
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