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.
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott showered Historically Black Colleges and Universities with hundreds of millions of dollars this fall in another one of her signature giving sprees.
HBCU leaders say the unrestricted lump sums are a "godsend" after decades of chronic underfunding—and they’re putting the money to good use, padding previously meager endowments and funding a wide variety of technology advances, research ventures, and scholarships.
"They want it to open tomorrow. They are ready,” says Dr. David K. Wilson, president of Morgan State University, in a recent interview. The "it" that his students are "clamoring for" refers to a medical school on the urban campus in Baltimore, Maryland.
In September, Wilson announced that the university and the Maryland legislature plan to deliver what students want and make earning a medical degree affordable, and perhaps even tuition-free, for some learners. Paying for a medical education has long been one of the biggest barriers students of color face. If successful, Morgan State would be one of three university-affiliated medical schools in Baltimore.
Improving teaching quality is one of the fastest, most dependable ways to raise retention, stabilize revenue, and strengthen institutional reputation—yet few universities manage it strategically. Most invest heavily in analytics, enrollment, and student support systems to boost outcomes but apply little oversight to the one factor most directly tied to student persistence: how teaching happens in the classroom.
Professor and author David Gooblar explains why he thinks leadership has overlooked teaching quality and offers strategies for presidents and boards to elevate it to the forefront of institutional performance.
After he graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Drew Wesson hopes to begin a career in strategic communication, a field with higher-than-average job growth and earnings. One year into his time at the university, Wesson became more strategic about this goal. To stand out in the job market, he declared a second major, like many of his peers.
It’s part of a trend that’s spreading nationwide, as students fret about getting jobs in an economy that some fear is shifting faster than a traditional college education can keep up.
Long neglected in favor of college preparatory programs, America’s vocational education system was in deep crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, notable for low student performance, employment dead-ends, and a reputation for tracking low-income and underrepresented students away from academic learning.
That's changing. Over the last two decades, career and technical education has undergone significant reform and renewal, moving it from the margins to the center of education policy discussions.
Two New Jersey community colleges are collaborating on a unique forum about the future of agriculture in the northwest part of the state, bringing together leaders in farming, education, and politics with the hope of creating a catalyst to support and modernize a key sector of the state’s economy.
Leaders from Sussex County Community College and Warren County Community College recently invited speakers and others to the innovative forum in October to discuss ways to mitigate challenges for state farmers and help them thrive.
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