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.
Most community colleges don’t have the resources to offer substantial mental health services to students. Yet their students need help—often more than students at four-year colleges do.
A new program aims to help by empowering students and encouraging them to identify mental health challenges or resource gaps on their campus, dream up solutions, and work with campus and community leaders to turn their ideas into reality.
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, whose efforts to promote diversity have long been considered among the nation’s most ambitious, is closing its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as well as its Office for Health Equity and Inclusion.
Despite President Trump's crackdown on DEI-related programs on college campuses, the scope of last week's cuts came as a shock to many. The changes happening at Michigan’s flagship are all the more striking given that there has been no state legislation requiring universities to scale back or cut their diversity efforts. In fact, this month, the Democrat-controlled Michigan Senate approved a resolution supporting policies that promote DEI efforts.
It's the third month of the Trump administration, and the White House has shown no signs of slowing down when it comes to actions affecting colleges and universities.
On this podcast, higher education reporters take a deep dive into the latest developments happening in Washington, the impact of President Trump's executive orders, threats, and demands, and how students and schools are dealing with a constantly changing higher education landscape.
Latino students are making “informed and pragmatic choices” when it comes to paying for college, according to a new brief from Excelencia in Education. At the same time, select colleges and universities are working to make a quality education more affordable for Latino—and all—students.
In 2005, Excelencia released the first in-depth national review of Latino students’ participation in financial aid among all students. Revisiting that 20 years later, there has clearly been some progress, but the need to expand access to opportunity remains, the report notes.
Anxiety on college campuses is high right now, prompting groups of faculty members at multiple universities, as well as the American Association of University Professors, to sue the Trump administration. Among other things, they allege the government's policies have led to a "climate of fear and repression."
In this interview, Vincent Brown, a professor of history and African American studies at Harvard University and an executive member of the AAUP, discusses details of the lawsuit.
Hundreds of firings inside the federal government’s student aid department by President Donald Trump are sparking concern among workers and student loan advocates, who warn that the student loan system is at risk.
Linda McMahon, the wrestling industry billionaire now serving as education secretary, has presented the sweeping cuts as an efficiency drive. But employees within the U.S. Department of Education believe they set the stage for widespread fraud and abuse.
