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.
Nationally, more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs are going unfilled, many of them in advanced manufacturing, which requires the sort of high-tech skills and postsecondary credentials that 18-year-old Nolan Norman is working toward.
Yet as it is, colleges have struggled to add and revise their training based on employer input and prepare students for tomorrow’s jobs, not just today’s. However, one Ohio institution appears to be bucking that trend: Lorain County Community College.
There's a rising threat U.S. colleges have to deal with: sophisticated criminal networks using stolen identities to disguise themselves as students. They flood colleges with applications to siphon off tens of millions of dollars in financial aid. What's more, they're taking up seats that real students need.
A series of recent reports reveal that these so-called ghost students even go as far as turning in homework assignments so they don't get dropped from classes. As colleges begin a new academic year, Amanda Gerut of Fortune magazine reports on this growing scam.
This isn’t the first time James Gerber and Lisa Hilbink, two professors from Minnesota, have packed up their things and left. But this time feels different.
A recent survey of U.S. professors found that 75 percent were seeking employment outside the United States. This exodus is unprecedented since European scientists sought refuge on U.S. shores during World War II. For the researchers who are choosing to leave, it is bittersweet—and professionally risky. But they say the future of science depends on it.
Rising tuition isn’t the only obstacle preventing students from meeting their full potential. A recent survey from the Hope Center for Student Basic Needs at Temple University shows that 48 percent of students nationwide are experiencing housing insecurity, and 14 percent are experiencing homelessness.
In this interview, five higher education leaders share their thoughts on what colleges can do to empower students with affordable and accessible housing.
Students looking for feedback on their assignments typically go to office hours, join study groups, or share drafts with classmates for peer review. Now there’s a new artificial-intelligence tool that says it can do the same thing.
According to its creator, Grammarly, the “AI Grader” can provide students with an estimated score, a rubric review, and even predictions on how a particular instructor might assess a draft. Some instructors, however, are far from enthusiastic. They believe the tool could reduce important interactions that students have with their professors.
Facing mounting pressure from the Trump administration, a lawyer for George Mason University President Gregory Washington told the board this week that the leader had done nothing unlawful and would not apologize for his diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, despite a call from the U.S. Department of Education to do so.
Douglas Gansler, Washington’s lawyer, called the singling out of GMU from the Education Department bordering on the “absurd,” saying in his letter to the George Mason Board of Visitors that the department’s investigative process had been “cut short” after a “very incomplete fact-finding process.”
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