Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
As President-elect Donald Trump begins to announce the individuals who will—and will not—work in his new administration, few details have emerged about the prospects of an education secretary. But that’s not stopping rampant speculation in D.C. policy circles.
Will Trump pick someone with a background in K-12 or higher education? Will he pick someone with experience in education at any level? Or will he opt for someone who has a track record of waging culture wars?
How students feel about the 2024 election and whether they want to talk about it varies from campus to campus and from classroom to classroom. This also applies to whether or not their instructors bring up the topic. Some professors think it is important to give students a chance to discuss the election in class. Others have given it a brief mention, or none at all.
For now, the emerging picture serves as a reminder that teaching is contextual, that higher education is vast and varied, and that there is no single experience of going to college classes in the aftermath of this contentious election.
Set against the backdrop of Glacier National Park to the west and rolling grassland to the east, Blackfeet Community College is a central figure in Browning, Montana, and the Blackfeet Reservation.
Over five decades, BCC has shaped the Blackfeet community, and the community has shaped the college. It is a center of higher education for the Blackfeet Nation, training students in nursing, scientific research, teaching, Piikani language, and a growing list of subjects. It’s also a repository for Blackfeet tradition and language—a place where Blackfeet history is recorded, preserved, and woven into the fabric of student life.
For many years, Republicans have portrayed colleges as bastions of leftism, awash in bias against conservatives and impervious to change.
Now, with Donald Trump’s victory to a second presidential term and a Congress under unified G.O.P. control, colleges and universities find themselves in a particularly vulnerable position—and fearful that Republicans may be poised to escalate their efforts to root out what they see as progressive ideology in higher education.
Confidence in higher education is slipping nationwide, in part because of the high cost of obtaining a degree and misinformation about whether it pays off in the workforce.
Some higher education leaders say work-based learning programs could be part of the solution: Students can pursue their academic studies while simultaneously experiencing how those studies might apply to the workforce and earning some money in the process.
Many college libraries are undergoing transformative changes, offering a central location for students to hang out, work with peers, and connect to support resources like tutoring. This reimagination of the library often comes with a physical reconfiguration, relocation of offices, and expanded services, all in hopes of supporting access and student success.
On this podcast, higher education leaders discuss the evolution of today's campus library and what it means for students and practitioners.
