Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
With Donald Trump set to re-enter the White House in two months, many higher education professionals have more questions than answers about what his education priorities will be. Their uncertainty was on full display recently when a group of college presidents gathered for an annual media convening hosted by Arizona State University's Michael Crow.
During the event, nearly a dozen higher education leaders fielded questions on a wide range of topics, but none dominated the discussion more than Trump.
Five months ago, Desmond Hoy was incarcerated at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras, where he served more than three years for charges related to a car theft. During that time, he earned his General Equivalency Diploma, became a tutor at the facility’s education center, and learned a new trade: welding.
Hoy's perseverance and determination would ultimately help him establish a fulfilling career. He credits WorkSource Oregon Reentry, a new employment program that Deer Ridge piloted, for boosting his confidence and assisting him in achieving his goals both inside and outside of prison.
Like millions of students who return to college as adults, Tim Lum got a two-year degree at his local community college. And this year, at the age of 36, he's one of 13 percent of the nation's college students who transfer to four-year institutions.
Lum arrived at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa excited to be there and eager to dive into class assignments, join student clubs, and get involved. He's not alone—research shows that transfer students often tend to be more motivated and engaged than students who come to college straight from high school.
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out a range of immigration actions, including mass deportations, with the help of the National Guard or military. Many of Trump’s plans do not require congressional approval, but they still might be challenging to undertake at the scale that Trump has described.
In this interview, Amy Lieberman, a politics editor at The Conversation U.S., asks University of Southern California immigration law scholar Jean Lantz Reisz to explain how Trump could follow through on some of his immigration promises during his second administration—and what legal and political obstacles he may encounter along the way.
Based on traditional federal data—specifically, from the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System—the “student success” rate at Tri-County Technical College in South Carolina doesn’t look so great.
But when a new metric designed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is applied, the rate rockets up. That reality sheds light on how much work that community colleges do to help their students isn’t collected in IPEDS, which is typically the go-to data on higher education.
Western Governors University is known for tackling today's talent shortage with its innovative competency-based education model that allows students to earn college degrees for skills they've already mastered.
On this podcast, WGU's Scott Pulsipher explains more about his school's efforts to make higher education accessible to everyone, plus how WGU's latest acquisition of Craft Education will help scale work-based learning to better meet workforce needs.
