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.
The Commission for Public Higher Education launched last summer with the backing of six state systems. Officials argued that public institutions needed a new accreditor better suited to their needs. They criticized the current model as broken and suggested that new entrants will provide more choices at a time when legacy accreditors are facing greater scrutiny over costs and outcomes.
Last fall, CPHE tapped Mark Becker to serve as its board chair. Becker was president of Georgia State University for nearly 13 years and spent another three as president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. In this interview, Becker discusses his work with the fledgling accreditor.
College tuition will cost no more than 10 percent of parental adjusted gross income. That’s it. Grab the figure from Line 11a of your 1040 form, and divide by 10.
Starting now, those are the instructions for anyone interested in applying to Whitman College, a small liberal arts college in Walla Walla, Wash. The school is one of a small but growing number of institutions that are finally answering the very reasonable question that families have been asking for decades: Why can’t you just tell us the price we’ll pay without having to apply and get in first?
A new anthology documenting the presidencies of Black women who led Historically Black Colleges and Universities is drawing national attention for its unsparing look at what it actually takes to run institutions that serve some of America's most vulnerable students—and for refusing to let those stories disappear.
The HBCU Sisterhood: Testimonies of Triumph and Transformation brings together first-person accounts from more than a dozen women who collectively represent decades of leadership at HBCUs across the country.
July 1 is a significant date for tens of thousands of Americans who hold federal student loans. That’s when changes to the U.S. Department of Education’s menu of repayment and relief options take effect. It’s also a key date the Trump administration has set for nearly seven million student loan holders to begin exiting the defunct Biden-era repayment plan, Saving on a Valuable Education, and to enroll in another plan.
But many student loan borrowers are encountering technical difficulties and misinformation in the weeks leading up to the massive changes, advocates report.
Over 43 million Americans have started college and left without a degree. They enrolled. They showed up. And somewhere along the way, they slipped through.
The 43 million Americans with some college and no credential are not failures. They are living evidence of an infrastructure never designed to see them through. They enrolled during a moment of hope and left during a moment of hardship. Their outcomes reflect systems built for a traditional student population that no longer represents the majority of today’s learners. The problem is we have not rebuilt our systems to serve them, writes this higher education leader.
As the U.S. population ages, the country faces a growing shortage of doctors and nurses, worsened by the Trump administration’s attempts to limit the influx of educated immigrants.
Now, a new law that begins July 1 limits federal loans to aspiring nurse practitioners to $20,500 a year—less than half what would-be podiatrists, chiropractors, and optometrists can borrow. That reality threatens to make the nation's healthcare shortage even worse, education leaders and medical experts say.
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