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.
In the last week, campuses scrambled to shore up resources as 42 million Americans, including over a million college students, prepared to lose federal assistance to buy food. Payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, didn’t go out on the first of the month as they normally would amid the ongoing government shutdown.
Now the Trump administration plans to dole out some of the benefits this month—but not all—in response to two federal court orders.
As the Trump administration presses colleges and universities to change how they operate, few areas are proving as contentious as the politics of the professoriate. Conservatives have long pushed for colleges to hire more right-leaning faculty, arguing that professors are almost uniformly liberal. There’s a catchphrase for this kind of ideological rebalancing act, and it’s called “intellectual diversity.”
The term has been around for decades, but it’s really having a moment right now in today's political discourse. However, some say the history and motives behind the movement warrant scrutiny.
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has wired a multimillion-dollar gift to another Historically Black College and University: Howard University. Officials at the school said they received $80 million in unrestricted funds, giving them wide latitude over how to spend the money.
Wayne A.I. Frederick, Howard’s interim president, says he plans to use the donation—one of the largest single contributions in the school’s 158-year history—to train more medical professionals, upgrade facilities for the growing university, and stave off the effects of the government’s more than month-long shutdown.
In the latest Washington Monthly college rankings, public universities from a handful of states with strong higher education governance systems dominate the top. What are they doing right? And what lessons do they offer about how to provide quality, affordable degrees to students of modest means when help from Capitol Hill is not coming?
Watch this replay of a recent webinar in which education experts answer these questions and more.
Universities are under increasing pressure from President Donald Trump—from blocked funds for research to attacks on their admission policies and dismantling of diversity programs.
In this interview, Princeton University’s Christopher Eisgruber talks about the challenges facing higher education today—on campuses and in Washington—and about his focus on promoting civility and independence. Lee Bollinger (the former president of Columbia and the University of Michigan) and former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers join the conversation to discuss the government's relationship with colleges and universities.
Students with children face unique challenges when it comes to pursuing higher education, including more responsibilities at home, less time for studying, tighter budgets, and higher levels of stress.
Community colleges are in a unique position to help. In this essay, Montgomery County Community College’s Nichole Kang describes what her school is doing to create a culture of caring and empowerment so that parenting students are better able to access and complete their higher education pursuits.
