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.
While many faculty members worry about the impact of artificial intelligence on students’ ability to think, some are harnessing the technology to create new ways for them to learn, even designing specialized apps for their students. Instead of spitting out answers, AI tools infused with faculty expertise are intended to help students think through solutions while exploring and refining ideas.
Proponents argue the new technology, at its best, enables a return to an educational ideal.
For decades, Princeton University stood as a kind of financial fortress, insulated from the enrollment cliffs, budget crises, and workforce reductions that have battered colleges and universities across the country. Princeton, with its nearly $36 billion endowment and a reputation that attracts top students and donors from around the world, appeared to be in a unique position where the question was not whether the university could afford excellence but rather how to deploy its vast wealth wisely.
That assumption is now being tested. And if Princeton is sounding the alarm, higher education observers say, the rest of the sector should pay close attention.
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy can’t be accused of being an opponent of degree-granting higher education institutions. The 57-year-old Republican lawmaker, after all, has spent a sizable chunk of his life in traditional colleges—claiming a bachelor’s degree, a medical degree, and a law degree.
But Kennedy also challenges assumptions that the nation’s higher education system is built around a four-year university degree.
Could videos replace traditional essays in the college admissions process? How does a college measure an applicant’s ability to engage in civil discourse? What role should artificial intelligence play in the admissions process?
Hundreds of college counselors, admissions leaders, researchers, and policymakers gathered recently at the inaugural summit of the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s Center for Innovation in College Admissions to answer these questions—and discuss ways to measure college readiness after decades of the admissions process going relatively unchanged.
For the past six years, the South Carolina General Assembly has appropriated tens of millions of dollars to public colleges and universities in exchange for an assurance they would hold tuition flat for in-state students. This year, there's an additional ask.
South Carolina lawmakers now want schools to use that tuition mitigation money in support of “critical workforce disciplines” and to suspend new admissions for academic programs that consistently lose money.
For many Black students, racial healing—the process of repairing the emotional and psychological harm caused by racism, restoring a sense of wholeness, and finding spaces where their identities are affirmed without explanation—is not built into campus life. Instead, it is something they must actively seek.
In this interview, four college students describe what racial healing spaces look like and how they empower and support Black students on campus.
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