Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
California Institute of Technology, a private university in Pasadena, California, is a highly selective school, but some of its online programs make it merely part of the crowd.
Colleges across the country are routinely offering online, non-degree-granting programs that they tout as avenues to offer more educational opportunities to broader audiences. But the programs are largely unregulated and may not feature university faculty members or their curriculums.
An anonymous $100 million donation will beef up free speech at the University of Chicago. The university says it’s the largest single gift ever given to a college to that end.
The money will pay for more events by the university’s Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, a new fellowship program for free-speech scholars, and research projects across the university. However, some faculty members are skeptical.
Transfer is riddled with obstacles for students. Only about a third of community college students successfully transfer to four-year institutions, and just 16 percent earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.
While it’s easy to place the blame on community colleges, a new book argues that problems with the transfer process are much more complex.
Anyone can pick the fruits and vegetables in this garden nestled next to a residence hall at Northern Illinois University. Student garden worker Emily Larrivee says it’s popular with both students and the surrounding community in DeKalb, Illinois.
Research shows that college students are going hungry at a higher rate than the U.S. population as a whole. In response, some campuses are taking alternative approaches to tackling student hunger.
Rates of voting by young people have quietly been rising to unprecedented levels, despite their lifetimes of watching government gridlock and attempts in some states to make it harder for them to vote.
Indeed, students had a decisive impact in several battleground states in 2022, and they want to do it again.
Adrian Castillo is not accustomed to job security. He’s a part-time professor who simultaneously teaches media arts courses at three different Los Angeles-area community colleges while also working as a high school substitute teacher to make ends meet.
Assembly Bill 2277 was supposed to help part-time community college faculty members like Castillo—then the governor vetoed it.
