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.
Hispanic-Serving Institutions are finding themselves in a precarious position after news broke last week that the U.S. Department of Justice won’t defend them from a recent lawsuit. The lawsuit—filed by the state of Tennessee and the group known as Students for Fair Admissions—deemed the HSI program “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory” for requiring institutions to enroll at least 25 percent Hispanic students to qualify for specific federal grants.
The DOJ’s latest move now thrusts leaders at HSIs into a moment of acute financial uncertainty.
College wait lists first emerged as demand for college degrees skyrocketed after the passing of the 1944 G.I. Bill. College administrators had to find a way to manage class sizes and yield so as to not enroll more students than they could accommodate.
For college applicants, wait lists have become a sort of purgatory, stringing along applicants’ hopes of admission. In some years, prestigious universities like Harvard University admit zero students from their wait lists, according to Harvard's FAQ page.
For some travelers arriving at Logan Airport’s international terminal, loved ones with flowers or balloons await them just outside the door to U.S. Customs and Border Control. But it's a lonelier arrival for many incoming international students, who each year leave their families to pursue higher education in the United States.
This year the trip comes with a lot more anxiety. What was once a routine journey back to school for the roughly 80,000 international students on Massachusetts campuses now feels laden with risk and uncertainty because of the Trump administration's shifting policy regulations.
Tens of thousands of undocumented students at public universities and community colleges in Texas are facing uncertainty and astronomically higher bills this fall after the Trump administration and state officials struck a deal to deny them in-state tuition.
Now, the U.S. Department of Justice is attempting to end tuition breaks in several other states for students who are residents there but do not have legal status.
Caleigh Paquette prides herself on planning ahead. The 26-year-old physician assistant began her career as a teenager, starting clinical work hours at 18 in preparation for graduate school. She barreled through seven years of higher education with no breaks, landing a job with Brown University Health’s primary care offices even before graduating from her master’s program in May 2024.
The one element not entirely pre-planned: $180,000 in student loan debt. But Paquette won’t have to shoulder all that debt on her own thanks to a program started by former Gov. Gina Raimondo to reduce the “brain drain” in science, technology, engineering, and math.
After Xiomara Champion had two car accidents in one month and the stress kicked in, the college student sought help from her stand-in therapist, one that costs nothing and is always available: ChatGPT.
Experts say the technology can provide a slew of information—but it can also be inaccurate and create an illusion of connection that further isolates its users.
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