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.
It has been a graduation season unlike any other. The Trump administration is investigating elite universities and cutting research funding. The elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs is reshaping campus life. International students are worried about having their visas revoked.
In contrast with past generations, what a speaker says on a commencement stage now reaches an audience far larger than the crowd that day. Here is a look at key themes that emerged from this year's graduation addresses.
Colleges across Texas are bracing for the fallout and uncertainty of a court decision that could price thousands of students without legal status out of higher education.
For more than 20 years, students in Texas could qualify for lower, in-state tuition at public colleges regardless of immigration status if they lived in the state for at least three years and graduated from a Texas high school or earned a GED. Republicans in power at the time, including then-Gov. Rick Perry, supported the 2001 Texas Dream Act. That changed last week.
Anxiety and depression are on the rise among college students, driven, in part, by pressure to balance academics with personal, economic, and family responsibilities.
In this interview, two mental health leaders discuss how the current political climate and economic uncertainty are exacerbating existing mental health challenges on campuses, plus what college leaders are doing to keep students safe and healthy during a time of tremendous upheaval.
Earlier this year, Utah lawmakers passed two bills that cut $60 million from its higher education system. That cut, however, came with a caveat: Public colleges could earn the money back if they worked out a plan to shift the lost funds away from “operational inefficiencies” and toward high-demand, high-wage majors.
The state’s eight public colleges have now spelled out precisely how they plan to do that.
Celina Damian's phone has been inundated with bewildering and anxious questions over the past few months: "What kind of loan is this?" “Am I in default?” “Will the government really take my wages?"
Last month, the federal government restarted collections on defaulted loans. State student loan ombudspersons such as Damian have become some of the only sources of contact for worried borrowers lost in a tangle of conflicting information at the federal level about their loan status and repayment options.
This year marks Jack Mills’ 50th Harvard University class reunion—an occasion he has looked forward to celebrating during a week of festivities that culminated last Friday in the annual tradition known as Harvard Alumni Day.
More than events, however, Mills and fellow alumni hope to drum up support for Harvard's academic freedom in the face of the administration's ongoing assault against the school, which has included freezing nearly $3 billion in federal funds and, most recently, trying multiple ways to ban international students from entering the United States to attend the institution. (A judge has temporarily blocked the efforts.)
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