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.
Matthias Doepke has spent 30 years in the United States, most recently as a professor at Northwestern University. Doepke, a German-born economist, became a naturalized American citizen more than a decade ago.
Last week, he resigned from Northwestern and sold his family’s house near the campus because he says it no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career. In this interview, Doepke talks about why he's joining the ranks of scholars heading abroad.
Last week, in a new executive order, President Trump made it perfectly clear that he intends to overhaul accreditation.
Leaders at accrediting bodies say that some of the conclusions in the executive order are sweeping and untrue. They also say they are willing to work with the Trump administration. Higher education experts and support organizations are much sharper in their critiques, save for some conservative commentators who applaud the accreditation reforms as necessary.
As one of the nation’s most elite liberal arts schools, Amherst College has historically also been one of the most diverse. In 2023, federal data revealed that the school's overall Black enrollment, 11 percent of the student body, far outstripped many other similar institutions.
Now it is trying to save that legacy without violating the law.
A new Indiana college is opening its doors this fall to promising students for whom the hefty price tag of higher education may otherwise have been prohibitive.
Founder's College, housed at Butler University, will offer a two-year degree covering not only tuition but also transportation expenses, a laptop, counseling, emergency funds, job coaching, paid internships, and more. The idea, says founding dean Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, is to take random factors out of the equation for academic success.
The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at one of America’s most prominent universities, is facing a challenge unlike any in its 152-year history.
Students—particularly those without U.S. citizenship—are asking to have their names removed from articles for fear of backlash by immigration officials. Some requests are simple, involving the removal of a byline from a past opinion column. Others entail scrubbing entire websites. In both instances, the requests are skyrocketing.
In a significant shift for how America’s diverse higher education landscape is understood and evaluated, the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching have unveiled a redesigned classification system that promises to better reflect what ultimately matters in higher education today: student success.
The timing couldn't be more critical, say experts.
