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.
For decades, the faculty-job-protection status known as tenure has been defended as an essential safeguard for academic freedom. Professors, the argument goes, need to know that they won’t get fired for researching and teaching about controversial topics. In theory, tenure provides that necessary security. But critics of the system, who balk at the idea of a “job for life,” are unmoved by this defense. State lawmakers are busy chipping away at tenure’s protections or even seeking to do away with it altogether.
But if the traditional argument for tenure’s existence is failing, what can its supporters do? Is there a case for the system beyond academic freedom?
Following a year of unprecedented funding decisions that often ignored congressional orders and redirected taxpayer dollars to different programs than the ones originally intended, it appears Congress has had enough.
New legislation to fund the government for the fiscal year includes several significant changes that Democrats argue will prevent the Trump administration’s unilateral decisions to defund some grant programs and move money to others.
Community colleges across the nation are grappling with how to effectively serve a large and remarkably diverse population of students learning English as an additional language, according to a new report examining multilingual learner programs at City Colleges of Chicago.
The three-year study found that multilingual learners—students in the process of developing English language proficiency—face significant barriers to persistence and completion, even as they represent a substantial portion of the student body at institutions serving immigrant communities.
About 90,000 undocumented students reach the end of high school each year, and researchers say their opportunities to pursue higher education are rapidly shrinking.
The President's Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration and the Migration Policy Institute found that about 75,000 students without legal status graduate annually. It is a milestone that has been encouraged by state and federal policy for decades as migrants seek citizenship in the United States, but rollbacks on tuition equity and other policies are making it harder for many of them to continue their education.
The leaders of five higher education institutions in Milwaukee are partnering with one of Wisconsin’s largest companies with the goal of making the region a nationally recognized leader for artificial intelligence and data science.
During a meeting at Northwestern Mutual's headquarters downtown, the chancellors and presidents of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marquette University, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and Waukesha County Technical College expressed the same sentiment: AI is moving fast.
Last summer’s passage of Workforce Pell is a long-sought win. For years, students who sought a quick, affordable credential to secure a better job were largely responsible for funding their own short-term, skills-focused training. Now, for the first time, millions of working adults will have access to federal financial aid for these programs.
Given the sharp rise in demand for short-term training, this initiative is an important breakthrough. But the real test of Workforce Pell won’t be how quickly dollars flow; it will be whether states and colleges use this moment to do something more ambitious than simply adding a new funding stream.
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