Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
When Liv Barefoot first heard Hurricane Helene was headed toward the University of North Carolina at Asheville, she didn’t expect it to upend her senior year and escalate her anxiety about climate change. But once the Category 4 hurricane made landfall in Asheville, the storm’s severity started to sink in.
UNC Asheville and the other campuses affected by hurricanes, wildfires, and other natural disasters this year will rebuild. They usually do. But experts say those resilience plans should also take into account that with every natural disaster like Helene, students become more anxious about their increasing likelihood of experiencing many more severe weather events in their lifetimes, no matter what part of the country they live in.
In California, about 87,000 undocumented students are pursuing higher education. Increasingly, they do not qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides protection from deportation and a work permit. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the "largest deportation operation in U.S. history.”
After last week's election, the leaders of California's public colleges and universities issued a joint statement of support for these students. In this interview, they offer insight on what they intend to do.
Where a student chooses to go to college will affect his or her life in countless ways.
A lot goes into these decisions. One major consideration: Students often want to know what their life will be like at a given school. A new tool can now help answer that big question by tracking various factors that could contribute to whether a student feels welcome on a college campus.
Education advocates estimate Pennsylvania needs approximately 15,000 more certified teachers to fill ongoing vacancies and replace underprepared teachers temporarily certified through an emergency permit.
In the face of persistent educator shortages, more and more school districts in the Pittsburgh region are looking inward to “grow their own” supply of teachers. Earlier this year, Pittsburgh Public Schools announced a new “emerging educators” program—designed to help address the district’s teacher shortage—that allows students to earn college credit and industry certifications.
For people who rank climate change high on their list of societal concerns, the Nov. 5 election result was a sobering one: The next U.S. president will be someone who campaigned on relying more on fossil fuels, not less.
That result may seem counterintuitive, given that most Americans see climate change as a threat and believe human actions are the cause of it.
Financial pressures have long affected those off the tenure track, whose pay often falls well below a livable wage. But even those fortunate enough to land a tenured or tenure-track position might find themselves rooted in place for decades as economic forces buffet them. A new project aims to better understand these realities by examining faculty members’ pay and how purchasing power is affected by the cost of living based on a county-by-county index.
To gain insight into how those numbers play out in the lives of real people, seven instructors from across the country share how they make ends meet.
