With its robotics lab, rapid prototyping suite, video studio, and collaborative research spaces, the Innovation Studio marks Worcester Polytechnic Institute as a leader in STEM education.
In many states, there is wide variation in funding levels among community colleges. Several factors account for these differences, including state funding allocation formulas, unequal local funding from property tax revenues, and political forces. To ensure equal opportunity among students from different racial and ethnic groups, community colleges need equitable funding. If community colleges enrolling large shares of students from historically underserved groups receive less funding than other institutions, inequities could hinder these students’ paths toward economic mobility.
Lumina President and CEO Jamie Merisotis spoke at the Annual Conference of Polytechnics Canada on ways we can to develop and deploy the talent that employers need to fill the jobs that workers want.
Registered apprenticeship programs result in positive outcomes for employers and apprentices. Traditionally used as a training model in the building trades, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) aims to expand registered apprenticeship as a workforce training model, including to nontraditional industries such as health care and information technology. Although registered apprenticeship programs share key elements, they vary in terms of occupational focus, length, registration agency, and approach (time based, competency based, or hybrid).
College success isn’t just an individual goal, or even one that can be confined to the campus. To maximize progress—and to ensure that success is shared by all segments of the population—it’s an issue that must also be tackled at the state level. Officials in Minnesota have taken that lesson to heart. Through a variety of public-private partnerships, they’re working to build a holistic approach—not just to increase degree attainment, but also to improve health and employment outcomes.
A new study conducted by Gallup and Lumina Foundation found that three-fourths of students in bachelor’s programs and two-thirds of adults seeking associate degrees have considered taking a break from college due to emotional stress. Dr. Zainab Okolo of Lumina discusses the growing mental health crisis across the country and explores how it is having a great impact on adults and students of color. Dr. Jo Blondin, president of Clark State College, discusses how they are supporting students, staff, and faculty through a culture of care.
In an interview with Janette Martinez, a senior policy and research analyst at Excelencia in Education, I discussed the importance of Hispanic voices in policy dialogues about affordability and student borrowing.
Lumina Foundation CEO: Report on Western Governors University shouldn't tarnish gains made in competency-based education.
Testimony by Lumina Foundation President & CEO Jamie Merisotis: Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities Within Innovation, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Lumina President and CEO Jamie Merisotis articulates Lumina's vision for the fundamental redesign needed in higher education to get from a system focused on institutions and based on time, to one focused on students and based on learning, at an annual symposium of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities.