Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
A new study adds to a growing body of research suggesting that the burning of fossil fuels, which causes climate change, distresses young people.
Meanwhile, climate activists and educators alike say there are proven ways to help students cope with these feelings—and college classrooms could play a key role.
For many families, getting financial aid is the key to being able to pursue higher education. But interruptions in that process can lead to precarious situations.
Aaron Chapman, a college access counselor, has firsthand experience with this reality. Like many financial aid counselors, he witnessed how the troubled rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid left students scrambling to make enrollment decisions. But this cycle—which began in November 2024—is shaping up to be different. Where frustration and anxiety once shadowed the FAFSA process, cautious optimism has now taken root.
In 2019, the University of Illinois started a free tuition program known as Illinois Commitment to make education more affordable for lower- and middle-income families. Since then, several private and public universities have followed suit. Roosevelt University announced plans to offer a similar program in December 2024. The University of Illinois Chicago aims to launch its own version, UIC Aspire, next fall.
Some students, however, are frustrated to discover that the programs are not exactly a free ride, leaving them responsible for housing and food costs that often total more than $10,000 per year.
Jimmy Carter, who as the 39th president of the United States created the U.S. Department of Education, died this week. He was 100.
As president, he tackled segregation in the nation’s public colleges, fraud in student-aid programs, and sought to reduce student-loan defaults. Carter also left a lasting imprint on education policy by expanding federal aid to middle-income students. But his actions sparked fierce debate over the federal role in education and over who should benefit from federal aid—fights that persist today.
There are 36.8 million adults like Maronda Mims—individuals under the age of 65 with some college but no credential. The reasons they haven’t finished are many: They’re working full time; they’re caring for children, aging parents, or other family members; they can’t cope with the bureaucratic work needed to reenroll.
Yet, as numerous as they are, adults with some college but no degree or credential have no group or organization that represents them. ReUp Education aims to change that.
Highly customized admissions information and processes. Credit transfer evaluations that take minutes, not days or weeks. Precision tuition discounting estimates. Student success interventions informed by data gathered about students before they even apply to their institution. These are some of the ways that artificial intelligence is or may soon be improving the enrollment management experience for students and institutions.
On this podcast, college administrators, professors, and others offer their take on the near- and longer-term potential of AI in enrollment management.
