Student outcomes at community colleges vary widely across institutions and programs, leaving some policymakers to wonder if more pressure is needed to hold these institutions accountable for their students’ future labor market outcomes, says this report from the Brookings Institution.
Josiah Stanfill begins his workday as dawn breaks over a gravel pullout at the foot of Buffalo Mountain, seven miles northwest of Oak Ridge, Tenn. He and his co-workers form a caravan and snake their way up the rutted switchback road that leads to their job site, an installation of wind turbines owned and operated by Invenergy Corp.
A new report from Ithaka S+R offers four recommendations to help states make higher education funding more equitable and cost effective in a time of financial upheaval. Among the report's suggestions: prioritizing education funding, targeting investments to prioritize equity in access and outcomes, raising new revenues and building partnerships, and improving efficiency and equity of existing resources.
American higher education is in the eye of a hurricane. When the pandemic hit last spring, campuses were buffeted by the frantic transition to remote instruction, lost revenue, and emergency spending on health and safety measures. The country made it through the tough early months with unprecedented cooperation between higher education leaders, faculty members, and students—all determined to chart a course through the storm. As limited relief arrived from the federal government, colleges and universities settled unsteadily into a new reality.
As country after country decrees partial or total lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of universities and colleges closing and switching to e-learning has soared. However, few of these institutions are well prepared for this sudden, disruptive move. A lot of scrambling and improvisation are occurring as administrators, instructors, and students struggle to implement broad-based online learning. The scale of the COVID-19 outbreak is unprecedented in the lives of nearly everyone involved.
For society, investing in college in prison is a fiscal no-brainer. The benefits of college for people who are incarcerated are the same as anybody else, of course: productive work, contributions to the economy, and contributions to community life.
By Janice Li North, Lumina Foundation intern For the nation to thrive in the global economy, it can ill afford to ignore what may seem an unlikely source of talent: its prison population. According to a recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative, more than 2.3 million people are now being held in the American […]
The foundation's strategic media grants support efforts that rethink how education and training are delivered to an increasingly diverse group of students, in order to increase the overall education attainment rate in the United States.
As this report describes, there is plenty of evidence that points to both the benefits and drawbacks of performance funding policies. This evidence is being used to put forth a number of recommendations to improve the design and function of performance funding at the state level. And many of the recommendations put forth are also applicable to conversations related to higher education accountability at the federal level.
Investment will help Edquity grow college footprint, further “beyond tuition” and emergency aid work NEW YORK – Edquity, a Brooklyn-based edtech and fintech company supporting students through each and every financial decision on the road to college graduation, has raised $500k from Lumina Impact Ventures, the venture capital arm of the nation’s leading foundation focused on improving equitable post-high school […]