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.
Centers and programs for undocumented students are caught in a politically precarious moment after the U.S. Department of Justice called for an investigation of the University of Nevada at Reno’s undocumented student services.
Advocates for immigrant students argue that this action marks an escalation of the Trump administration's persistent efforts to restrict higher education benefits for undocumented students. They also worry campus programs supporting these individuals might preemptively scale back or close altogether.
Parents and prospective students want to know how colleges are responding to the rise of generative artificial intelligence—and to other recent developments like federal budget cuts to research and the impact of the Trump administration and its crackdown on campus protests in colleges.
On this podcast, program hosts Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn share what they’re hearing as they visit campuses around the country. And they offer their analysis of what AI could mean for higher education and whether the time is ripe for new entrants to enter the college landscape.
The trend of free college tuition continues to gain momentum. In the past few weeks, four more prominent colleges and universities—the University of Utah, Smith College, Bryn Mawr College, and the Stevens Institute of Technology—have each launched free tuition programs for undergraduates who meet certain income, residence, or academic requirements.
Although the eligibility criteria differ from institution to institution, each of the new plans extends the school’s previous financial aid commitments, adding them to a steadily expanding list of universities and colleges promising more financial aid as they compete for advantages in an increasingly competitive college admissions environment.
As local news outlets rapidly disappear, high school and college journalists are increasingly stepping beyond their campuses to report on their communities, helping to fill the news deserts left behind.
But like professional newsrooms, student publications are contending with shrinking budgets, censorship pressures, and the challenge of covering underreported communities.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a new college accreditor at a June news conference, he started with a 20-minute diatribe about the ills of higher education and eventually blamed many of the problems on “the woke accreditation cartels.”
The Republican governor’s announcement set off alarm bells among faculty, some traditional accrediting organizations, and other accountability experts who worried that the effort was meant to assert a conservative takeover of higher education. Since then, however, the Commission for Public Higher Education has sought to reestablish itself. Still, many believe it still has a big perception problem it needs to overcome to attract member institutions nationally and, eventually, gain their financial support.
For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college—or whether to go at all—has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price?
Public confidence in higher education has lessened recently amid high tuition prices, skyrocketing student loans, and a dismal job market—plus ideological concerns from conservatives. Now, colleges are scrambling to prove their value to students.
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